Patho 370 Midterm Exam Review: Guaranteed A+ Guide: Updated
Patho 370 Midterm Exam Review
Tertiary Prevention Examples
(Ans- Counseling on medication; rehabilitation; supportive care; reducing
disability
Latent Period
(Ans- time between exposure of tissue to injurious agent and first
appearance of signs and/or symptoms
Endemic
(Ans- Native to local region
Subclinical Disease
(Ans- no noticeable signs or symptoms (inapparent infection)
Etiology
(Ans- cause of disease
Idiopathic
(Ans- unknown cause
latrogenic
(Ans- Cause results from unintended or unwanted medical treatment
Primary prevention
(Ans- altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible persons
ex: vaccinations
Allostasis
(Ans- process by which the body achieves stability through homeostasis
Selye’s 3 Phases of Stress
(Ans- Alarm reaction; resistance; exhaustion
sympathetic nervous system: Norepinephrine
(Ans- causes vasoconstriction & increases BP; Reduces gastric secretions;
increases night and far vision
sympathetic nervous system: epinephrine
(Ans- enhances myocardial contractility; increases HR & CO; causes
bronchodilation; increases glucose release from liver
Hormones released during the stress response
(AnsCortisol
Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH)
Norepinephrine
Epinephrine
Endorphines
Oxytocin
RAA pathway (renin-angiotensin-aldosterone)
Types of intracellular accumulation
(Ans-
-Excessive amounts of normal intracellular substance
-Abnormal substances from faulty metabolism synthesis
-particles that the cell is unable to degrade
Cellular adaptation types
(Ans-
-Atrophy: Decrease cell size
-Hypertrophy: increase cell size
-Hyperplasia: increase cell number
-Metaplasia: conversion of one cell type to another
-Dysplasia: disorderly growth
Coagulative necrosis
(Ans- this process begins with ischemia, ends with degradation of plasma
membrane (heart)
Liquefactive necrosis
(Ans- liquification of lysosomal enzymes, formation of abscess or cyst from
dissolved dead tissue (brain)
Fat necrosis
(Ans- death of adipose tissue, appears as chalk white area ,usually due to
trauma or pancreatitis (pancreas)
Caseous Necrosis
(Ans- characteristic of lung damage secondary to tuberculosis (bacterial
infection; resembles clumpy cheese (lung)
Apoptosis
(Ans- programmed cell death
Side effects of chemotherapy
(Ansanemia
nausea
bleeding
infections
-Oma
(Ans- tumor
carcinoma
(Ans- cancerous tumor (begins in kin or tissue that lines or covers body
organs)
Sarcoma
(Ans- malignant tumor (begins in bone or in soft tissue of the body)
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