A Patient Who Has Been Both Vomiting and Having Diarrhea

question 33

Multiple Choice

A patient who has been both vomiting and having diarrhea is losing ________ from his body.

• A) water
• B) sodium ions
• C) bicarbonate ions
• D) hydrogen ions
• E) all of the above

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Definitions:

Inhibition

A psychological or physiological process that decreases or suppresses certain behaviors, emotions, or actions.

Suppression

The conscious deliberate effort to control and inhibit unwanted or unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or impulses.

Conditioned Forgetting

The loss of a memory due to interference from learning through conditioning, rather than organic causes.

Classical Conditioning

A process of learning in which a reaction initially triggered by the second of two jointly presented stimuli is in time triggered by the first stimulus as a result of their repeated pairing.