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When teaching a group of senior citizens about nutrition, the nurse should include information about which of the following age-related changes in gastrointestinal functioning?
- A. Sensory changes that affect taste
- B. Problems with dentition
- C. Reduced gastric juice secretion
- D. Enhanced GI muscle tone
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Reduced gastric juice secretion is a common age-related change affecting digestion.
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In congenital megacolon or Chagas' disease the following is affected:
- A. Muscularis mucosa.
- B. Intestinal lining epithelium
- C. Nerve plexuses of GIT resulting in disturbances in digestive tract motility with dilatation in some areas.
- D. Mucosal glands.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Both conditions affect the enteric nerve plexuses (e.g., Auerbach's and Meissner's), leading to motility issues like dilatation.
Which of the following describes one function of the stomach?
- A. To introduce carbohydrates to food.
- B. To remove excess water from food.
- C. To temporarily store food.
- D. To absorb nutrients into the bloodstream.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The stomach temporarily stores food, mixing it with gastric juices for digestion.
Match each term with the correct description: carries urine from bladder to outside of the body
- A. urethra
- B. urinary system
- C. bladder
- D. kidneys
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The urethra carries urine from the bladder to the outside.
Starch is digested to maltose by the enzyme amylase. According to the 'lock and key' hypothesis, which is the 'key' and which is the 'lock'?
- A. key: amylase, lock: starch
- B. key: starch, lock: amylase
- C. key: maltose, lock: amylase
- D. key: amylase, lock: maltose
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: In the lock and key model, the enzyme (amylase) is the key that specifically binds to the substrate (starch), acting as the lock.
The term used to describe the stomach's expansion to accommodate volume without any rise in intraluminal pressure is referred to as:
- A. Vomiting
- B. Activation of osmoreceptors
- C. Folding inward (invagination)
- D. Relaxation in response to stimulation (receptive relaxation)
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Receptive relaxation allows the stomach to expand as food enters, mediated by the vagus nerve, without increasing pressure.