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Somogyi effect - CORRECT ANSWER - hypoglycemia followed by rebound
hyperglycemia
Overcompensation for low blood sugar
What does our body use to transport something across a cell membrane? -
CORRECT ANSWER - carrier proteins
what stops water soluble molecules from crossing into a cell? - CORRECT
ANSWER - lipid bilayer
not water permeable
what is the absolute refractory period in the cardiac cycle? - CORRECT
ANSWER - nothing can happen during that period no matter what stimulus is
presented
what do we need to move fluid from the arterial end of a capillary into the
interstitial fluid? - CORRECT ANSWER - hydrostatic pressure
what type of cellular adaptation replaces one type of cell with another type of
cell? - CORRECT ANSWER - metaplasia
hyperplasia - CORRECT ANSWER - increase in the number of cells
eg. breast tissue
, hemosiderosis - CORRECT ANSWER - abnormal increase of iron in blood
a concern after multiple blood transfusions
Na+ 164 , what will you see - CORRECT ANSWER - confusion, convulsion,
cerebral hemorrhage, coma
cells are shrinking, due to high sodium in blood vessels pulling water out of
cells
ABG: pH 7.28 HCO3 28 CO2 60 - CORRECT ANSWER - Respiratory
acidosis
Turner syndrome - CORRECT ANSWER - A chromosomal disorder
x-linked chromosome
short in stature
webbed neck
What alleles are consistent with Ab blood type? - CORRECT ANSWER - AB
Why could one twin baby get asthma and the other not? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Epigenetics
Epigenetics - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of environmental influences
on gene expression that occur without a DNA change
cells that attack a parasitic invasion? - CORRECT ANSWER - eosinophils