In Bacterial Endocarditis,the Mass of Bacteria That Forms Is Referred

question 9

Multiple Choice

In bacterial endocarditis,the mass of bacteria that forms is referred to as:

• A)bacterioma.
• B)a thrombus.
• C)pyoma.
• D)vegetation.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, representing an average distance from the mean.

Mean

The average value obtained by adding all the data points in a set together and then dividing by the number of data points.

Standard Normal Curve

A symmetric bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.

Z-score

An index quantifying the position of a value relative to the average value in a dataset, expressed as the amount of standard deviations away from this mean.