PAX Verbal Skills Flashcards
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What does the word 'empathy' mean?
Answer: Understanding and sharing another's feelings
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
Which of the following is a compound sentence?
Answer: She took the blood pressure, and she recorded the results.
A compound sentence joins two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction such as 'and.'
Choose the correct homophone: 'The patient's ______ was checked every hour.'
Answer: Pulse
The correct spelling for the rate of heartbeat felt at an artery is 'pulse.'
What is the meaning of the word 'palliate'?
Answer: To relieve symptoms without curing
Palliate means to make the severity of a disease or pain less severe without removing the cause.
Which sentence is grammatically correct?
Answer: The patient's chart was updated.
An apostrophe before the 's' (patient's) shows singular possession, indicating the chart belongs to one patient.
What does the medical prefix 'brady-' mean?
Answer: Slow
Brady- means slow; for example, bradycardia is an abnormally slow heart rate.
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