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Your patient has a respiratory disease that has literally paralyzed the cilia. Explain why this patient would be at an increased risk for a respiratory infection.

All of the following statements refer to events of tissue repair. Put the events in proper numbered order according to the sequence of occurrence. The initial event, the injury, is already indicated as number one.1. The skin receives a cut that penetrates into the dermis and bleeding begins.2. Epithelial regeneration is nearly complete.3. Granulation tissue is formed.4. Blood clotting occurs and stops the blood flow.5. The wound retracts.6. Macrophages engulf and clean away cellular debris.7. Fibroblasts elaborate connective tissue fibers to span the break.Answer ________ , ________ , ________ , ________ , ________ , ________ , ________ 1.

Figure 1.2Using Figure 1.2, match the following descriptions to the most appropriate letter on the diagram:A change in the temperature of the external environment (getting warmer). 1.

Which of the following units is used to describe the type of ionizing radiation that was absorbed by a patient and the part of the body irradiated?

X-rays are a form of ____ radiation.

An incoming x-ray photon is completely absorbed in which of the following interactions of x-rays with matter?

Which of the following interactions of x-rays with matter produces scatter radiation that exits the patient and may seriously degrade the image?

Which of the following factors will increase the probability of photoelectric interactions?     1. increased atomic number     2. low kVp     3. decrease in patient thickness

From which of the following artificial sources do humans receive the largest dose of ionzing radiation?

Which of the following terms describes a reduction in the number of primary photons in the x-ray beam through absorption and scatter as the beam passes through the patient?