Physiology - Final (Nightingale College) Week 15 Questions With Complete Solutions

Young children's bones have a greater risk of fracturing because of incompletely ossified bone. {Ans: false young children's bones don't have a greater risk.}One similarity between the structures of the foot and hand is the equivalent degrees of movement of both the thumb and the big toe. {Ans: false the degrees of movement are not the same}Which muscles are used for forced expiration? {Ans: abdominal muscles and internal intercostals}Bones grow in diameter by the combined action of which two of the three bone cell types? {Ans: osteoblasts and osteoclasts}Moving a part of the body forward is: {Ans: protraction}The enterogastric reflex causes: {Ans: Inhibition of gastric peristalsis.}The formation of sucrose involves the removal of a molecule of water. This is called: {Ans: dehydration synthesis}Which of the following is not a function of the hypothalamus? {Ans: regulation of motor activity}The process of fat emulsification consists of: {Ans: breaking fats into small droplets}Which of the following body fluid compartments has the same volume (percentage of body weight) in the infant, the adult male, and the adult female? {Ans: plasma}Twenty-three chromosomes per cell in humans is referred to as: {Ans: haploid}If the pH