____________ is the pacemaker cardiac cells ability to spontaneously generate an electrical impulse without outside stimulation or stimulation by the nervous system.?
A) Contractility
B) Automaticity
C) Conductivity
D) Excitability
B
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A patient comes to the clinic for evaluation after a sinus infection. To evaluate the therapy, the nurse uses transillumination to assess the sinuses and notes which finding indicating recovery from a frontal sinus infection?
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