The diagram illustrates sensory nerve endings in the skin. What structure does "A" represent?
A. Meissner corpuscles
B. free nerve endings
C. Ruffini end organ
D. Pacinian corpuscle
E. Merkel disks
B
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A. head B. tail C. body D. None of the above; the duodenum is not adjacent to the pancreas.
The potential outcome of a disease is the ________
A) Treatment B) Prognosis C) Diagnosis D) Etiology
Which of the choices below does not describe how recovery oxygen uptake (oxygen deficit) restores metabolic conditions?
A) converts lactic acid back into glycogen stores in the liver B) resynthesizes creatine phosphate and ATP in muscle fibers C) increases the level of lactic acid in the muscle D) replaces the oxygen removed from myoglobin
Contraction of the ventricles is referred to as ventricular ________.
A. diastole B. ischemia C. systole D. depolarization E. fibrillation