You have a patient who has been admitted to the hospital with a stroke. When you visit your patient at meal time, you notice that the small amount of food that has been eaten is pocketed on one side of your patient's mouth. This is a characteristic of which common condition?
a. dysphagia
b. oxidative stress
c. aspiration
d. GERD
a
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During the development of atherosclerosis, platelets adhere to the subendothelial surfaces and secrete both adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and:
A. nitric oxide B. platelet-derived growth factor C. C-reactive protein D. plasminogen activator inhibitor E. thromboxane A2
Which of the following organs is responsible for the manufacture and secretion of many digestive enzymes and bicarbonate?
A) stomach B) liver C) pancreas D) gallbladder
What is the difference between things that are related by cause-and-effect versus things related by correlations? Give examples of things related in each way
The amount of energy used by the body in digesting, absorbing, and transporting nutrients is called:
a. calorie expenditure ratio. b. basal metabolic rate. c. dietary thermogenesis. d. adaptive thermogenesis.