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NURS 611 Patho Exam 2 267Questions andAnswers (Latest Update 2024/2025)RATED
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1.Conserving energy, digesting, metabolism, and rest - CORRECT ANSWERS
Review: the parasympathetic system is all about what?
Parasympathetic System - CORRECT ANSWERS Conserving energy,
digesting, metabolism, and rest
2.Increases blood sugar levels, increases body temperature, and increases blood
pressure - CORRECT ANSWERS The sympathetic nervous system primarily
serves to protect an individual by doing which of the following? (select all that
apply)
C.Sympathetic Nervous System - CORRECT ANSWERS Increasing body
temperature
E.Sympathetic Nervous System - CORRECT ANSWERS Increasing blood
pressure, increases blood sugar levels, increases body temperature.
Sympathetic Nervous System - CORRECT ANSWERS Increases blood sugar
levels, increases body temperature, and increases blood pressure
- CORRECT ANSWERS In general, sympathetic stimulation promotes
responses that are concerned with the protection of the individual, which include
increasing glucose, body temp, and BP.
3. Mobilizing energy stores, glucose to muscles, decreased release of insulin,
redirects blood supply from the gut to the muscles, heart, and lungs - CORRECT
ANSWERS Review: the sympathetic system is all about what?
Sympathetic System - CORRECT ANSWERS It's all about mobilizing energy
stores, for instance glucose to muscles, decreased release of insulin, redirects blood
supply from the gut to the muscles, heart, and lungs.
,NURS 611 Patho Exam 2 267Questions and
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4.Level of consciousness - CORRECT ANSWERS Which characteristic is the
most critical index of nervous system dysfunction?
Most Critical Index of Nervous system dysfunction - CORRECT ANSWERS LOC
is the most critical clinical index of nervous system function or dysfunction. An
alteration in consciousness indicates either improvement or deterioration of a
person's condition.
5.Prefrontal Lobe - CORRECT ANSWERS Thought and goal-oriented behaviors
are functions of which area of the brain?
Prefrontal lobe - CORRECT ANSWERS area is responsible for goal-oriented
behavior such as the ability to concentrate, short-term or recall memory, and the
elaboration of thought and inhibition on the limbic (emotional) areas of the CNS.
6. Broca area in the frontal lobe - CORRECT ANSWERS Where is the region
responsible for the motor aspects?
Broca are in the frontal lobe - CORRECT ANSWERS Broca speech area is the
only region responsible for the motor aspects of speech.
7.Basal ganglia - CORRECT ANSWERS Parkinson and Huntington diseases
are associated with defects in which area of the brain?
8. Hypothalamus - CORRECT ANSWERS Maintenance of a constant internal
environment and the implementation of behavioral patterns are main functions of
which area of the brain?
1)maintenance of a constant internal environment, and 2) implementation of
behavioral patterns - CORRECT ANSWERS Hypothalamic function falls into 2
major areas:
,NURS 611 Patho Exam 2 267Questions and
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9.Limbic System and prefrontal cortex - CORRECT ANSWERS What parts of
the brain mediate the expression of affect, both emotional and behavioral states?
Mediate expression of affect, both emotional and behavioral states - CORRECT
ANSWERS Limbic system and prefrontal cortex
10. Medulla Oblongata - CORRECT ANSWERS Reflex activities concerned
with heart rate, blood pressure, respirations, sneezing, swallowing, and coughing
are controlled by which area of the brain?
Medulla Oblongata - CORRECT ANSWERS makes up the myelencephalon and
is the lowest portion of the brainstem.
11.Cerebellum - CORRECT ANSWERS Which area of the brain assumes the
responsibility for conscious and unconscious muscle synergy and for maintaining
balance and posture?
12. 20% or 800 to 1000 ml of blood flow per minute - CORRECT ANSWERS
The brain receives approximately what percentage of the cardiac output?
13. uneven expression of mood, unstable blood glucose levels, and poor
temperature regulation - CORRECT ANSWERS What evidence does the nurse
expect to see when a patient experiences trauma to the hypothalamus? (select all
that apply)
Trauma to hypothalamus - CORRECT ANSWERS Uneven expression of mood,
unstable blood glucose levels, and poor temp regulation
Hypothalamus - CORRECT ANSWERS Forms the base of the diencephalon.
Function controls autonomic nervous system function, regulation of body temp,
endocrine function (glucose levels), and regulation of emotional expression.
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14.Skin and Mucous Membranes - CORRECT ANSWERS What is the first
defense of our bodies?
15. To prevent infection of the injured tissue - CORRECT ANSWERS Which
action is the purpose of the inflammatory process?
Inflammation - CORRECT ANSWERS If the epithelial barrier is damaged, then
a highly efficient local and system response ______________ is mobilized to limit the
extent of damage, to protect against infection, and to initiate the repair of damaged
tissue.
Loss of function (functio laesa) - CORRECT ANSWERS There is a 5th sign
known as loss of function (functio laesa) but Dr. Wunderlich did not mention this.
16.Edema (tumor), warmth (calor), redness (rubor), and pain (dolar) - CORRECT
ANSWERS What are the 4 cardinal signs of infection?
17. Leukocytes - CORRECT ANSWERS Which type of white blood cell is first
to arrive at the site of infection?
18. Increased Capillary permeability - CORRECT ANSWERS What causes the
edema that occurs during the inflammatory process?
Inflammatory process - CORRECT ANSWERS The increased flow and capillary
permeability result in a leakage of plasma from the vessels, causing swelling in the
surrounding tissue and is solely responsible for inflammation-induced edema.
19. Vasodilation of blood vessels - CORRECT ANSWERS What process causes
heat and redness to occur during the inflammatory process?
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