Surgical Instruments Generally Are Classified According to Use

question 39

Multiple Choice

Surgical instruments generally are classified according to use. Which is not a classification for instruments?

• A) Cutting
• B) Grasping
• C) Restabilizing
• D) Probing and dilating

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Definitions:

Polygenic Processes

Involving or determined by several different genes, affecting the inheritance and variation of certain traits or disorders.

Heritability

A measure of how much of the variation in a trait within a population is due to genetic differences among individuals in that population.

Twin Studies

Studies of the heritability of a disorder by comparing concordance rates between monozygotic and dizygotic twins.

Identical Twins

Twins resulting from the splitting of a single fertilized egg, sharing the same genetic material and thus being genetically identical.