What does the term “dose creep” refer to?

The metacarpophalangeal joints are ________.

What is the effect of surface tension forces in the air-filled lung?

On inspecting a volume-pressure curve of a restrictive lung disease below, which of the following characteristics pertains to this condition?    

Resolution is related to the size of the _______ that make up the image. 

A patient has a tidal volume of 525 ml with a respiratory rate of 14.  His VD/VT is 0.4.  What is this patient’s approximate alveolar ventilation?

_______________ refers to the process, procedures, and technology required for creating, distributing, and archiving digital images. 

If a patient on a ventilator had a size 6 mm endotracheal tube that was replaced with a size 8 mm (larger inner diameter), what effect would we expect to see?

In the lungs, turbulence flow of gas are commonly found in the nose, mouth, trachea and mainstem bronchi.

According to Egan’s, what is the normal range of minute ventilation (VE) in a healthy adult?