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Watershed zone - periventricular white matter - correct answer What is the most common site for PVL? Periventricular Leukomalacia ; softening/cystic necrosis of periventricular white matter in watershed zones - correct answer What does the term PVL mean? Watershed zones - correct answer Arterial boundaries in the white matter are called? Highly echogenic intraparenchymal lesion...

dysarthria - correct answer problem with motor execution apraxia - correct answer problem with motor planning cerebral palsey - correct answer non progressive disorder of motion or posture due to brain injury in early brain development(0-3 years) HIE - correct answer -hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy -not enough oxegyn, tissue damage, brain ...

PVL - correct answer leading cause of CP symmetrical, NONhemorrhagic, typically BILATERAL lesion Caused by ISCHEMIA from alterantions in cerbral blood flow (decreased) (diplegia, quad) PVL locations - correct answer arterial end zones o the middle, psterior and ant cerbral arteries (where the meet) medical management of PVL - correct answer prevention of intrauterine aphyxia,...

A 54-year-old woman develops a right shoulder abscess with a strain of S. aureus that is resistant to nafcillin. She was treated with a 2-week course of intravenous vancomycin and improved. Three weeks later (week 5), the infection recurred, and she was given 2 more weeks of intravenous vancomycin and again improved. Four weeks later (week 11), the infection recurred and the patient was again started on intravenous vancomycin. The MICs for vancomycin for the S. aureus isolates were as follows: i...

SONOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE for Neonatal Brain - correct answer 1. most brain sonographic examinations are performed through the anterior fontanelle in both the coronal and the sagittal planes 2. the posterior fossa is evaluated through the posterior and mastoid fontanelles 3. The foramen magnum approach may be useful when evaluating the upper spinal canal, as in patients with a Chiari malformation. Newborn skull - correct answer ...

THREE VARIATIONS OF MARRIAGE OUT OF COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY - correct answer 1. marriage with complete separation of property 2. marriage out of community of property with retention of community of profit and loss 3. the accrual system PURPOSE OF ANTENUPTIAL CONTRACT - correct answer To deviate from the common law or statutory rules regarding the matrimonial property consequences of marriage. Ante...

clipper ships - correct answer American boats, built during the 1840's in Boston, that were sleek and fast but inefficient in carrying a lot of cargo or passengers. telegraph - correct answer A device that used electrical signals to send messages quickly over long distances Morse Code - correct answer a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are...

Election of 1824 - correct answer "corrupt bargain" and backroom deal for JQ Adams to win over Jackson Election of 1828 - correct answer Jackson defeats John Quincy Adams in this election, becoming our 7th President Andrew Jackson - correct answer The seventh President of the United States (), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British...

Type - correct answer what type of source is it? a letter a photo etc Origin - correct answer where did the source come from Motive - correct answer what reason did the author have for creating it? why was it written? what is it trying to make the audience believe/do Audience - correct answer who is th...

Three-Fifths Compromise - correct answer Agreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th amendment) Great Compromise - correct answer Compromise made by Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature and representation based ...