When a clinician palpates the armpits and neck to determine if a patient has tenderness in those regions as a result of infection, they are checking for swollen
A. spleens.
B. Peyer's patches.
C. lymph nodes.
D. tonsils.
E. thymic tissue.
Answer: C
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A) local hyperpolarization B) decreased excitability of neuron C) increased permeability of postsynaptic membrane to K+ and Cl- ions D) local depolarization E) all of these
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