What area of the brain is most involved in directly regulating the internal environment (homeostasis)?
a. pituitary gland
b. thalamus
c. hypothalamus
d. hyperthalamus
e. pineal gland
c
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Your family has a strong genetic predisposition to abnormal blood clotting and deep vein thrombosis. How does this affect or determine your chances of suffering from the same conditions?
A. You are guaranteed to experience blood clots and deep vein thrombosis, as the genes producing such conditions are definitely in your genome and will become active at some point. B. You have a higher risk of suffering from these conditions, but you can still take preventative steps to reduce the risk if you know about the genetic predisposition. You are not absolutely guaranteed to suffer deep vein thrombosis because environmental factors can be changed. C. You don't have to worry about these conditions because genetic predisposition doesn't at all affect your chances of developing these conditions if you exercise regularly and eat healthy foods. D. You must expect to die from such conditions if more than 4 or 5 of your relatives have also died from them, as medicine does not yet know how to stop genetic conditions from taking their course.
Use word parts to construct the following medical terms. aden/o cyst/o glomerul/o hemat/o leuk/o nephro/o olig/o pyel/o ureter/o urethr/o ur/o -ectasis -ectomy -emia -itis -lith -oma -osis -pathy -sclerosis -scopy -uria surgical repair of the ureter
What will be an ideal response?
Damaged nerve fibers in the CNS cannot regenerate due to an absence of which of the following?
A. A myelin sheath B. An epineurium C. An endoneurium D. Neuroglia E. An axolemma
What percentage of the U.S. population is affected by anorexia nervosa?
a. 0.1% b. 0.6% c. 2.3% d. 3.6% e. 5.1%