Students are welcome to take as much time as they like to practice before demonstrating skill competency. Skills will be evaluated on a pass/needs remediation basis. If skills are not successfully completed, students will be remediated by the instructor(s). Students may practice and be reevaluated.
A relatively rare, usually benign neoplasm originating in the chemoreceptor tissue of the carotid body, glomus jugulare, and aortic bodies. Compare: paraganglioma. Synonym(s): glomus jugulare tumor. [ chemo- + G. dektÄs, receiver, fr. dechomai, to receive, + -oma, tumor].
The Pressor definition of pheochromocytoma: Pheochromocytomas are neuroendocrine tumors derived from catecholamine-producing chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla, whereas extra-adrenal paragangliomas arise from chromaffin cells of the extra-adrenal paraganglia (a pheochromocytoma is an intra-adrenal paraganglioma).