Commotio Cordis Is Heart Failure Due to a

question 90

Multiple Choice

Commotio cordis is heart failure due to a .

• A) loss of blood from an artery
• B) mild electrical shock to the heart itself
• C) severe electrical shock to the body
• D) relatively mild blow to the chest that occurs during a vulnerable interval (2 ms) when the heart is repolarizing

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Definitions:

Closure

The psychological phenomenon of seeking a sense of resolution or completeness in perceptual or cognitive processes.

Contiguity

A Gestalt principle of perception; the tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related.

Continuity

A Gestalt principle of perception; the tendency to perceive things as simply as possible with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern.

Depth Perception

The visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions, enabling the estimation of distances.