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Test used for diagnosing hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia

How is blood for measuring glucose obtained

What type of charge do sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium have?

What type of charge do chloride, bicarbonate, and phosphate have?

The key test to diagnosing tissue damage

Tissue death as a result of disease or injury

Blood lipids bound to protein that are measured along with cholesterol

Measures the clients cardiovascular fitness and shows the myocardiums ability to respond to increased oxygen requirements

How is a stress test measured?

The visualization of a body organ or cavity through a scope

Withdrawing fluid that has been abnormally collected or to obtain a specimen

Aspiration of cerebrospinal fluid from the subarachnoid space

Collection of air or gas in the pleural space causing the lungs to collapse

Aspiration of fluids in the pleural cavity

Aspiration of fluid from the abdominal cavity

What is the primary function of the respiratory system?

The inside of the chest cage is called

The lungs are separated from other organs by the ____?

The lungs are attached to _____ and _____?

A thin transparent double layered serous membrane lining the thoracic cavity

_____ and _____ are layers of the pleura.

____ lies adjacent to the chest wall and produce pleural fluid

____ adheres to the surface of the lungs and absorb pleural fluid.

How much fluid does the pleural space contain

True or False

The right lung is larger than the left?
True False