The __________ is a tough protective sheath that covers the brain and lies closest to the skull.

A. dura mater
B. pia mater
C. dorsa mater
D. arachnoid membrane


Answer: A

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Imagine a boy, whose needs for love and tenderness are not being met by his mother, and who is a Catholic growing up in a prejudiced Protestant farming community, and who has the pressures of a boy with homosexual feelings growing up in an

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Tardive dyskinesia can be overlooked because:

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