A young pregnant woman went to a childbirth class and the instructor informed them about strengthening the muscles of the pelvic floor. What are these muscles?
What will be an ideal response
The levator ani and coccygeus muscles form the bulk of the pelvic diaphragm (pelvic floor). Strengthening these muscles helps in the delivery of the child by resisting downward forces when "pushing."
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A) long bones. B) flat bones. C) sesamoid bones. D) short bones. E) irregular bones.
A person studying how the body absorbs, uses, and gets rid of codeine is engaged in the pharmacological specialty called a. pharmacotherapeutics
b. pharmacodynamics. c. pharmacokinetics. d. pharmaconeurology.
What type of chemical bond forms when electrons are shared unequally between two atoms?
What will be an ideal response?
The repolarization of the action potential involves the opening of
A. voltage-gated Na+ channels. B. chemically gated Na+ channels. C. voltage-gated K+ channels. D. chemically gated K+ channels.