A Patient Was Recently in Contact with Poison Ivy

question 334

Multiple Choice

A patient was recently in contact with poison ivy.He is now experiencing severe itching.Another word for itching is:

• A)rash.
• B)pruritus.
• C)xeroderma.
• D)dermatitis.

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Definitions:

Sample Mean

The average of all the data points in a sample.

Z-statistic

The Z-statistic is a type of standard score that indicates how many standard deviations an element is from the mean, used in hypothesis testing for normal distributions.

Standard Error

A measure that describes the distribution of sample means around the population mean in a sampling distribution.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; indicates how much the values in a data set differ from the mean.