Which Statement Does Not Accurately Describe the Pericardium

question 20

Multiple Choice

Which statement does not accurately describe the pericardium?

• A) The pericardium is a double-walled membranous sac that encloses the heart.
• B) It is made up of connective tissue and a surface layer of squamous cells.
• C) The pericardium protects the heart against infection and inflammation from the lungs and pleural space.
• D) It contains pain and mechanoreceptors that can elicit reflex changes in blood pressure and heart rate.

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Definitions:

Margin of Error

The range within which the true population parameter is expected to lie, with a certain level of confidence.

Confidence

In statistics, it often pertains to the degree of certainty or probability that a parameter falls within a specified range.

Population Variance

A measure of the spread of a distribution within an entire population, indicating how much the data differ from the mean.

T Distribution

A probability distribution that emerges in the context of estimating the mean for a normally distributed population, applicable when dealing with a small sample size and the population standard deviation is not known.