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Larry has extrinsic asthma which is triggered by mold allergy. While helping a friend toss hay to his horses, Larry begins to experience chest tightness and audible wheezing. He goes to the truck and uses his rescue SABA inhaler. Within minutes, he is fine and returns to work. Three hours later while driving home, he has a relaps of chest tightness and wheezing. He uses his inhaler again but this time he gets no response the the medication. Which of the following best describes this situation?

Based on the context clues and the definition of discipline, what do you think is Cynthia Shanahan’s overall subject?

A 48 year old female diagnosed with intrinsic asthma. She presents to the asthma clinic for an initial asthma evaluation. Your assessment and history reveals that she has significant daily symptoms, awakens frequently at night with coughing and chest tightness. She is presently wheezing and use of accessory muscles. She uses a rescue inhaler at least twice daily and has begun a low-dose corticosteroid inhaler. Her PEFR variability is 40%. Which of the following would you recommend for treatment of her asthma?

A sputum sample from a suspected asthmatic patient has been sent to the laboratory for analysis. Which of the following findings would confirm the diagnosis of an exacerbation?

In which of the following TB stages can they actively infect others?

For the patient in the preceeding quesion, after using a SABA and increasing his steroid dosage, what should be his NEXT course of action?

Write Python code to ask the user to enter a number, then print out the square root of that number.  [blank1] n =  [blank2] square_root_of_n = [blank3] print(“the square root of your number is ” + [blank4]  ) 

a. Explain 3 differences between meiosis and mitosis.  b. Provide a statement about why humans need mitosis and a statements about why humans need meiosis. 

Select all the variable names that are NOT allowed in Python:

Assume that the variable str stores a string.  Complete this line of code that prints out str 7 times:   print( )