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George W. Bush’s approval rating spike following the 9/11 attacks is best explained by _________. 

Endoscopes should be cleaned immediately after use and leak tested to ensure that no damage has been done to the instrument during the procedure.

  The interweaving of melody and harmony produces ________ in music.  

  Which of the following describe(s) life in the medieval cloister?  

  Music and mathematics have been linked since the time of the ancient Greeks.  

  The first major center of polyphony was  

A 68 – year old man comes to the office because he noted a pulsatile bulge in his abdomen for the past two years, and it is becoming more prominent. He has a remote history of MI, and his only risk factors are one pack per day of smoking and hypertension, controlled with a diuretic. His physical exam is normal except for a pulsatile nontender mass above his umbilicus, which measures 7 cm. What is the best initial test for this patient?

An aneurysm is a focal dilation of an artery to more than one and a half times its normal diameter. 

  ________ is traditionally associated with collecting and organizing the chants of the church.  

Immediate complications after elective repair of aortic aneurysms include MI, renal failure, colonic ischemia, distal emboli and hemorrhage.