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Page 221 - First Stage or Elementary Examination. INSTRUCTIONS. You are permitted to attempt only eight questions. 1. Where and how is the diaphragm placed in the body? What organs lie immediately above and what immediately below it? What structures pass through it ? How does the diaphragm work in breathing, and what makes it work?
Page 221 - Put the number of the question before your answer. The value attached to each question is shown in brackets after the question...
Page 217 - Questions will be confined to the under-mentioned points in the elements of Anatomy and Physiology. Candidates are expected to have seen the corpuscles of the blood and the fat globules of milk under a microscope magnifying about three or four hundred diameters. Other details of structure needing the use of a microscope will not be asked for. No candidate will be allowed to pass who in the answers...
Page 219 - The obvious differences between venous and arterial blood. Where and how venous blood is converted into arterial, and arterial into venous blood in the body. How venous blood can be converted into arterial blood out of the body. F.
Page 221 - The value attached to each question is shown in brackets after the question. But a full and correct answer to an easy question will in all cases secure a larger number of marks than an incomplete or inexact answer to a more difficult one.