{"id":115029,"date":"2023-08-23T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T11:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=115029"},"modified":"2023-08-23T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T11:29:23","slug":"wgu-d236-pathophysiology-exam-questions-and-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/23\/wgu-d236-pathophysiology-exam-questions-and-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"WGU D236 PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WGU D236 PATHOPHYSIOLOGY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Which types of tissue most often develop tumors?
    Epithelial and connective tissues<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. What are the following benign tumors?
    Papilloma – A wart
    Lipoma – begins in the fatty tissue
    Myoma – Fibroid
    Chondroma – Tumor of cartilage cells<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. What are sarcomas?
    They are tumors that can be found anywhere and begin in connective tissue<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. What are the early signs of lymphoma
    Fevers and night sweats<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. What is radiation therapy
    When seeds are implanted into a malignant prostate and then irradiated, this is called
    radiation therapy.
    This is used to reduce damage to healthy tissue<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Name what is a vesicle, pustule, macule, papule, excoriation
    Vesicle – Small fluid filled elevation of skin (e.g. blister)
    Pustule – (elevation of the skin containing white blood cells and cell debris)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Macule – A spot that is not raised or depressed. (such as a freckle)
    Papule – A firm raised area of the skin (such as a pimple)
    Excoriation (scratch in the skin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Define the following:
      Laceration
      Fissure
      Ulcer
      Superficial burn
      Superficial partial thickness burn
      Laceration – Rough jagged wound
      Fissue – Crack in the skin
      Ulcer – Store with disintegration and death of affected tissue
      Superficial burn – involves the epidermal layer of the skin
      Superficial partial thickness burn – appears with blisters and pain at the burn site<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. What are shingles and how are they treated
      Shingles are painful vesicular lesions caused by varicella. The normal treatment is
      antiviral medications and costicosteroids to decrease pain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. What is Tissue destruction involving only the epidermal layer of the skin
      Superficial.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. What are two signs of allergic skin reactions
      Pruritus (itching) and urticarial (hives)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      WGU D236 PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Macule – A spot that is not raised or depressed. (such as a freckle)Papule – A firm raised area of the skin (such as a pimple)Excoriation (scratch in the skin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}