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DSST Health

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. HPV is associated with the development of _______ _______.






2. The testes need a lower temperature to produce active - healthy ______.






3. About 75% of all car accidents occur within 25 miles of home and at speeds below ___ MPH.






4. After paying a ________ to an insurance company - the policyholder is covered for specific benefits.






5. ___________ sedate the user - slowing down central nervous system function.






6. Secondhand tobacco smoke is an indoor air __________ widely recognized as a major health risk - especially for children.






7. __________ exercises use mechanical devices that provide resistances that consistently overload muscles throughout the entire range of motion.






8. By the time victims are sufficiently concerned about their persistent ______ - blood streaked sputum - and chest pain - it is often too late for treatment to be effective.






9. There are three stages to General Adaptation Syndrome. The second stage is called __________.






10. Within the last decade - codependence is a new term that has been used to describe the relationship between ____-dependent people and those around them.






11. The most common sexual orientation throughout the world is known as _______________ - which refers to an attraction to opposite-gender partners.






12. Over the counter medications include ________ - cold medicine and laxatives.






13. the combined use of ________ and tranquilizers produces a synergistic effect greater than the total effect of each of the two drugs taken separately. In this instance - a much-amplified - perhaps fatal sedation will occur.






14. Carbon monoxide is a colorless - odorless - tasteless gas that possesses a very strong physiological attraction for ___________ - the oxygen-carrying component of each red blood cell.






15. For a fixed ________ fee - enrollees are given comprehensive health care with an emphasis on preventive health care.






16. A chronic problem that affects women more than men is osteoporosis - a condition in which _____ become weak and brittle.






17. Everyone feels 'down' or 'blue' at times - but depression is characterized by a more ________ state of feeling low.






18. Cannabis - or marijuana - has been labeled a mild ____________ for a number of years - and some experts now consider it to be a drug category in itself.






19. All risks have possible _________ outcomes.






20. As a result - patients feel _____ quickly after eating a small meal.






21. The EPA monitors and regulates the quality of municipal ________ ______ supplies.






22. In February 1992 - the _____________ became the first developed country to enact legislation that permits euthanasia under strict guidelines.






23. The nervous system is made up of all of the nerve tissues in the body. It is broken down into the central nervous system (CNS) and the ___________ nervous system.






24. For proper _____ conduction to occur within portions of the brain and spinal cord - an insulating sheath of myelin must surround neurons. In the progressive disease multiple sclerosis - the cells that produce myelin are destroyed and myelin productio






25. Pneumonia is often the specific condition causing death among the frail ________.






26. Tolerance is an acquired reaction to a drug in which continued intake of the same dose has ___________ effects.






27. Nearly 60% of all motor vehicle crashes are caused by ________.






28. Power plants that use water from lakes and rivers to cool their stream turbines cause _______ pollution.






29. The Food Pyramid describes five food groups. The base of the pyramid is made up of the _____ - Cereal - Rice - and Pasta group - with a recommendation of 6 to 11 servings per day.






30. Approximately __ weeks after fertilization - the baby is ready to be born. Birth occurs in three stages. The process of birth is called labor.






31. If a person usually works or plays at a ____ intensity - but for a long duration - they have developed an ability to maintain aerobic energy production.






32. Three common aspects of addictive behavior are exposure - compulsion - and loss of _______.






33. The emotional ________ that people experience after the death of a friend or relative are collectively called grief.






34. Hepatitis is an inflammatory process in the _____ and can be caused by several viruses.






35. When arteries to the brain constrict as a result of stress - the supply of blood to parts of the brain may decrease and cause temporary vision problems or other symptoms. Then the arteries _______ (expand) again and pressure on the nerve endings in t






36. The thin-walled atrial chambers are considered collecting chambers - whereas the thick-walled muscular ventricles are considered the ________ chambers.






37. About 80% of men with chlamydia show signs and symptoms - including painful urination and a whitish pus discharge from the penis. Most _______ report no overt signs or symptoms.






38. Cholesterol is attached to structures called ____________.






39. Harm that is committed against a child is referred to as _____ _____.






40. Research shows that within __ years of smoking cessation - the risk of heart disease is almost the same as for someone who never smoked.






41. The _______ stage is the second stage in the sexual response pattern of males and females.






42. People with bulimia lose or maintain weight not because they stop eating - but because they eat and then purge their digestive system by vomiting - using __________ - or taking syrup of ipecac - a dangerous drug used to stimulate vomiting after an ac






43. PCBs are a group of ____________ causing a great deal of concern because of their presence in the water supply.






44. ________ are the strong - immediate reactions that you feel in response to an experience.






45. Rheumatic heart disease is the final stage in a series of complications started by a _____________ infection of the throat (strep throat).






46. Two fats - linoleic acid and ______ linolenic acid are essential dietary components.






47. The durable power of attorney for health care is a legal document that designates who will make ________ decisions for an individual if they become incapacitated.






48. Artificially acquired immunity is a type of acquired immunity resulting from the body's response to pathogens introduced into the body through _____________.






49. Although people experience grief in remarkably different ways - most people have _________ discomfort - sense of numbness - feelings of detachment from others - preoccupation with the image of the deceased - guilt - or hostility.






50. Because ______ are less flexible - some older people develop osteoarthritis - a condition in which joints become painful.