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A 72-year-old female has been told by her nurse practitioner she has a new heart murmur that requires her to go for evaluation by a cardiologist.  After an echocardiogram was completed the cardiologist informs the patient that she has aortic stenosis. The client asks the cardiologist “What does aortic stenosis mean?” Based on your knowledge you would expect the cardiologist to respond with which of the following answers:

A patient asks the nurse practitioner if cold medicine containing a decongestant is safe to take. The nurse practitioner recommends the client avoid decongestants with which of the following conditions:

When studying for an exam and reviewing the cardiac cycle the advanced pathophysiology student would be correct if they told their study partner that cardiac cycle is divided into two parts systole and diastole.  Systole is when the ventricles are: 

A nurse practitioner is reviewing cardiac pathophysiology with a group of students, which of the following teaching point best captures a component of cardiac function?

Frustrated with his inability to lose weight despite attempting numerous fad diets, a 42 year-old male who is 5’11” (1.8 m) and 270 lbs (122.7 kg) has visited a clinic to gain tools to achieve long term weight loss. Which statement by the clinician is most accurate?

Bryophytes lack specialized means of transporting water and organic nutrients.

The primitive, palm-like Gymnosperms that date back to the age of the dinosaurs are in this Phylum:

A pine tree is an example of a(n):

The Liverwort, Marchantia, reproduces asexually using these structures:

Which of the following characteristics is not associated with Monocots?