While teaching a group of student nurses about different types of fractures, the nursing instructor says, "This fracture is characterized by the crushing of cancellous bone." Which type of fracture is the nursing instructor describing?
1. Complete
2. Transverse
3. Comminuted
4. Compression
4
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A. sustained, abnormally high blood pressure. B. the heart's inability to maintain its regular pumping force. C. the thickening of artery walls by deposits of fatty substances. D. severe chest pain caused by insufficient blood supply to the heart.
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Which abbreviation is NOT a surgical procedure?
a. REM b. ECCE c. LASIK d. PRK
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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