(01) - General intro to topic

Question 1

1. Thanatology is the scientific study of what?

Answer 1

1. death

Question 2

(What is Death?)

1. What are the two types of death?

(What is…these are death marks and fall under somatic)

2. rigor mortis
3. pallor mortis
4. algor mortis
5. livor mortis (hypostasis)

Answer 2

1. somatic death and cell death
2. yeah…
3. pale
4. reduction in body temp
5. black and blue

Question 3

(Read through page 17)

I’m not doing any flashcards for anything before that

1. pathology is essentially the study of what?
2. a lesion is what?
3. in anatomic pathology, the lesion is the what in the tissue?

(and then just read this)

Answer 3

1. lesions
2. any departure from normal
3. abnormality

Question 4

1. What is the examination of a corpse for lesions?

Answer 4

1. necropsy

Question 5

(look at this)

(Imbibition is defined as the displacement of one fluid by another immiscible fluid)

(autolysis is destruction of a cell through its own enzymes)

Question 6

(Euthanasia Artifacts)

1-2. What are two common artifacts?

3. How can you tell difference between crystallized barbituates and other disease related mineralizations?

Answer 6

1. deposition of crystallized barbituates
2. spleen congestion
3. barbituates dissolve in formalin

Question 7

(Agonal LEsions)

1. pulmonary what and what?
2. What is the pooling of blood on dependent side called? Where does this occur?

Answer 7

1. congestion and edema
2. hypostasis; lungs or kidneys (basically blood pools on down side of dead animal)

Question 8

(Incidental Lesions)

1. What are they?
2. can they predispose the animal to clinical signs under certain conditions?
3. What are the common incidental lesions found in horse intestines called (black foci)?

Answer 8

1. lesions that do not cause any clinical disease
2. yes
3. hemomelasma ilei

Question 9

(Language of Pathology)

1-8. What are the 8 charactersitcs of lesions?

Answer 9

1. location
2. shape
3. size
4. color
5. consistency
6. appearance of cut surface
7. odor
8. taste (sort of)

Question 10

(Etiology)

1. The science or study of what?
2. what are the synonyms?

Answer 10

1. causation (some form of “noxious” stimulus)
2. cause or causative factor

Question 11

(Pathogenesis “How”)

1. What is the difference between casual and formal genesis?

Answer 11

1. casual genesis is etiology and formal genesis are the mechanisms of disease or the sequence of events in the development of a lesion, clinical signs, from inception/initial stimulus to “resolution”

patho = suffering

genesis = origin

Question 12

1. What is a concise statement or conclustion concerning the nature, cause, or name of a disease as determined from careful investigation of the signs/symptoms and history (“evidence based”)
2. The accuracy of this thing is limited by what?

Answer 12

1. diagnosis
2. history provided and the evidence (lesions) available for study

Question 13

(clinical diagnosis)

1-3. based on data obtained from what three things?

4. It may only suggest what?
5. usually supplemented by what?

Answer 13

1. case history
2. clincial signs/symptoms
3. physical examination
4. the system involved
5. a list of differential diagnosis

Question 14

(Differential Diagnosis)

1. aka what in clinical medicine?
2. a list of what?

Answer 14

1. rule outs
2. diseases that could account for the evidence or lesions of the case

Question 15

(Clinico-pathologic and Anatomo-pathologic diagnosis)

1. what one is based on fluids?
2. what one on structure

Answer 15

1. clinico
2. anatomo

Question 16

(Morphologic Diagnosis)

(Lesion Diagnosis)