Define borborygmi (singular is borborygmus)
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The normal noise made within the intestinal tract as gas and fluid move through the tract; stomach growling.
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You are designing a drug. You'd like to deliver the drug by creating a skin patch that is impregnated with the drug and allowing the drug to diffuse through the layers of the skin to reach the underlying tissues and bloodstream. Which of these chemical changes might you make to increase the number of drug molecules that diffuse through the layers of skin cells?
A. Increasing the number of oxygen atoms in the drug B. Decreasing the number of nonpolar groups in the drug C. Increasing the number of nitrogen atoms in the drug D. Increasing the number of ionized groups in the drug E. Decreasing the number of polar groups in the drug
Cross-bridges are portions of
A) actin molecules. B) myosin molecules. C) troponin molecules. D) tropomyosin molecules. E) calcium ions.
Following an injury to his arm, a patient complains that he has no sensations from the thumb, index finger, middle finger, and part of the ring finger. You suspect that he has damaged the
A. median nerve. B. radial nerve. C. musculocutaneous nerve. D. ulnar nerve. E. axillary nerve.
Where would be the most likely location for damage to the spinal cord of a person who has become a paraplegic?
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