Cells that can automatically generate their own impulses and waves of contraction without any outside humoral or nervous intervention have a property called
A) excitability.
B) refractoriness.
C) automaticity.
D) rhythmicity.
C
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A nurse caring for a male neonate born to observant Orthodox Jewish parents anticipates the neonate will be circumcised by:
a. a bishop. b. a mohel. c. his father. d. his physician.