Your 23-year-old female patient presents with relatively normal vital signs and is fully alert and oriented. Her only complaint is lower abdominal pain. If you assume she is pregnant, you are:

As a rule, as a child gets older the blood pressure:

A) falls and the pulse rate rises. B) rises and the pulse rate rises. C) falls and the pulse rate falls. D) rises and the pulse rate falls.

A 14-year-old bone marrow transplant patient developed bilateral white lesions of the lateral border of the tongue that measured 1 x 2 cm. Which of the following conditions should receive serious consideration in a clinical differential diagnosis?

a. Hairy leukoplakia b. White sponge nevus c. Geographic tongue d. Pemphigus vulgaris e. Aphthous stomatitis