Test your basic knowledge about clotting factors and anticoagulants.

biol

1. What is synovial fluid and what is it’s purpose?

2. Use medical terms to describe the location of the tibia.

3. Compare and contrast the three types of muscle. Give an example of each within the body.

4. What covers the opening of the trachea? What is it’s purpose?

5. Where does the upper airway end and the lower airway start? List the structures in both.

6. What structures and muscles are involved in breathing? Explain them from inferior to superior.

7. What is the difference between ventilation and respiration?

8. Describe the process of gas exchange using appropriate medical terms.

9. What area of the brain controls breathing? Describe the process.

10. What is the “backup drive” for breathing and how does it work?

1. What are the components of blood?

2. What is blood pressure? Explain systole, diastole, and the physiological response during these phases.

3. List the functions of blood.

4. What is the physiological response to a sympathetic nervous system arousal?

5. Describe in detail a parasympathetic nervous system response.

6. List the components of the nervous system, including whether they are part of the central or peripheral nervous system.

7. Describe the layers of the integumentary system from superficial to deep.

8. List the components of the digestive system that a piece of food would go through from the oropharynx to the anus.

9. List the organs that are in each of the four quadrants of the abdomen, organized by each quadrant.

10. What system do the adrenal glands belong to and what is their function?

A. Is its good laboratory practice to alternate between dermal puncture and venipuncture collections on a patient having a glucose test every four hours? ___________         Please explain why or why not:

B. What pre-analytical step must be taken before drawing the patient?

Explain how HCl is produced and becomes more concentrated in the stomach region.

What are the 6 Diet Planning principles?   Briefly describe how each of these contribute to ‘planning a healthy diet’.

a link between insulin and neurodegenerative diseases has been suggested. briefly describe the link between insulin and a disease of your choice?

(150 words) include references, thanks

what are the roles of insulin in the CNS paying particular attention to its role in energy homeostasis? (150 words)

(include references and images if you can)

thanks

What actions and treatment can reverse AKI at the initiation phase?

Given what you’ve learned about antigen expression on erythrocytes, do you think other cells in the body express glycoproteins on their surface that help identify them as “self”? Why or why not?

What is the difference between being infected with a virus such as SARS-CoV-2 and contracting a disease such as COVID-19?

Explain the significance of Fick’s law as it applies to the simple squamous epithelium of the lungs. Incorporate all terms of the Fick’s Law equation.