Ch 4 Quiz Flashcards
T/F: A disease is called acute when it starts abruptly and has a short lived duration.
TRUE
T/F: Anatomy refers to the study of the nature of living things.
FALSE
A factured bone is a common __________ injury
Trauma
The __________ plane divides the body into front and back portions
Coronal
T/F: Vital signs and other results from a patient’s physical ecam are considered part of the medical records’ assesment.
FALSE- this is the objective
T/F: Dizziness as reported by the patient is considered a sign.
FALSE
PET scan reveals area of the body with unusually high:
Metabolic rate
Information obtained from a patient’s physical exam is classified as a _________
Sign
What category of a patient’s medical chart does the diagnostic imagining fall?
Plan
Psoriasis is a skin condition, which lasts a lifetime. Thus, psoriasis is classified as ________
Chronic
What does the suffix -gnosis mean?
Knowledge
T/F: another name for ultrasound imaging is MRI
FALSE
Pain and pressure are usually classified as _________ because they are described by the patient
Symptoms
___________ is the component of the medical record obtained from pt’s description of their symptoms
Subjective
T/F: Rx is considered part of the plan for a pt med record
TRUE
Fever is a common __________ of ______________ disease
Sign; infectious
Suffix means process of veiwing
-scopy
Which of the following is NOT an acronym for diagnostic imaging tools? CAT MRI UIS PET
UIS
Symptoms are _____ by _________. Signs are _______ by ___________.
Decscribed, patients, measured, medical personnel
The head is __________ to the neck
Superior
A pain ranking of 8 out of 10 is classified as
Subjective symptom
When bodily fuctions fail to maintain homeostasis, a condition of instability, known as _____, results.
Disease
The ___________ plane divids the body into front and back portions
Coronal
A physician who specialized in the study of disease
Pathologist
