Match the Terms with Their Definitions

question 21

Multiple Choice

Match the terms with their definitions.
-Atelectasis

• A)Roughened skin or an abrasion
• B)Increase in size or volume
• C)Involuntary wavelike contractions
• D)Rounded cavity on the outer surface of the hip bone that receives the femur
• E)Fast breathing
• F)First feces of a newborn infant
• G)Absence of oxygen
• H)Excision or removal of a kidney
• I)Collapsed lung
• J)Nosebleed
• K)Wall between the ventricles
• L)Involuntary movement of the eyeball
• M)Listening for sounds produced by internal organs
• N)Swelling of the renal pelvis of the kidney with urine
• O)Lameness
• P)Space within an artery
• Q)Bluish discoloration of the skin
• R)Impaired muscle tone
• S)Smaller-than-normal head
• T)Near-liquid mixture composed of partially digested food and gastric secretions

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Definitions:

Heart

A muscular organ in most animals, including humans, which pumps blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contractions.

Dendrite

Branching processes of a neuron; receives stimuli and conducts potentials toward the cell body.

Nerve Impulses

Electrical signals that travel along the nerve fibers, used for communication between nerve cells.

Cell Body

The part of a neuron that contains the nucleus and most of the cytoplasm and organelles, serving as the metabolic center of the neuron.