The nurse is interviewing a female adolescent with anorexia nervosa who is malnourished and severely underweight. The nurse conc
ludes that the client is experiencing secondary gains from her behavior when she says: A. "I'm as big as a house."
B. "I get straight A's in school."
C. "My mother keeps trying to get me to eat."
D. "My hair is beginning to fall out in clumps."
The skull protects the brain from any direct damage and the vertebrae helps keep the nerves in the spine in place and protected from damage. So the central nervous system is protected by the vertebrae and the skull.
