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A man suffering with a cold goes to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription for a medication which will dilate his bronchioles to help him breathe more easily, and constrict his nasal vessels to reduce nasal drainage.  You, the pharmacist, warn him that it may have the added side effect of increasing his heart rate, because the cold medication is a ____________.

Which of the special sense organs might add to someone’s feelings of motion sickness?  

You work as a nurse practitioner in a busy general practice clinic.  You examine a toddler who is crying, running a low-grade fever, and pulling at his ear.  You use the otoscope to examine the ear and you see a dark pink, slightly bulging tympanum.  You suspect a middle ear infection.  Which of the following sentences best explains the cause why these infections are so common in children?

Which of the following organ systems is believed to have its own nervous network, as well as autonomic (sympathetic and parasympathetic) innervation? 

Heart rate and digestion rate changes caused by the ANS autonomic nervous system would be expected to be integrated by ___________.

The Vagus Cranial Nerve offers both motor and sensory innervation to many organs, including all of the following EXCEPT which one?  (Which organ is NOT served by the Vagus Nerve?) 

A man in his 70s drives himself to the ER emergency room because he has pain in his shoulder and down the medial side (inside) of his left arm.  Though the pain feels like it is related to the skin, the man and his ER doctors are worried that it may be more serious because … 

Which of the following is a FALSE statement about the sense of smell?

A constable pulls over a car in which a young person was driving erratically.  The officer smells alcohol on the driver’s breath.  He asks the young man to leave the car and performs a Field Sobriety Test.  He has the young man walk along a line, and stand on one foot.  The alcohol-sensitive part of the brain which is being tested most is the ___________.

Emotional influence on the ANS autonomic nervous system would be expected to be directed through ___________.