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Select the BEST definition of comorbidity?
 
  A. Any physiologic, diagnostic, or medical reasons that indicate that a specific medication, therapy, treatment, or plan of care would be undesirable, unwise, or impossible to prescribe for a patient's health
  B. A pathological development that is not an inherent part of the presenting problem but that occurs in a patient during the management of a patient's presenting problem
  C. The worsening in severity of a disease, syndrome, or any symptoms
  D. Any disease, illness, or ill health that is separate from the presenting problem but that occurs at the same time as the presenting problem

Question 2

__________ obstruction of the pulmonary artery or part of the branches of the pulmonary artery; caused by the presence of an embolus
 
  Fill in the blank with correct word.



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

pulmonary embolus



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