PFHS Exam Review 2

What is Alzheimer's disease?

• eye condition that involves damage to the optic nerve 
• A progressive brain disorder that includes not only memory loss, but also progressivly severe confusion  
• Body growth that occurs at different rates  

Term used to describe growths or tumors that are noncancerous 

• Malignant 
• Ideology 
• Benign 

What is Asynchrony? 

• Body growth that occurs at different rates 
• The ideas and beliefs characteristic of a group, social class, or individual 

Eye condition in which the lens of the eye thickens and causes cloudy or distorted vision

• Cataracts 
• Tinnitus 
• Social Security 
• Osteoporosis 

What is Cephalocaudal development?

• Involuntary urination or defecation 
• Term used to describe growths or tumers that are cancerous 
• Development that occurs from the top of the head down to the extremities 

What is chemotherapy?

• Progressive bone loss when calcium is depleted 
• An eye disease 
• Involuntary urination or Defecation 
• The use of cancer-killing chemicals or drugs 

What does climacteric mean?

• Hearing loss associated with age, most often caused by damage to inner ear  
• When reproductive capacity declines or is lost for both men and women 
• A ringing sound in the ears

Diabetic retinopathy means what?

• Eye disease that involves damage to the blood vessels in the retina, which causes blurred vision
• When menstruation ceases for a year or more and women can no longer reproduce 
• Some kind of medical thing 

What is glaucoma?

• eye condition that involves damage to the optic nerve, and in which vision is distorted 
• A gov. health insurance program 
• progressive bone loss 

Ideology:

• An eye disease 
• The ideas and beliefs characteristic of a group, social class, or individual 
• progressive bone loss