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1st Chapter-Pathology Flashcards

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The manual and scientific manipulation of the soft tissues of the body for the purpose of establishing and maintaining good health and promoting wellness

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Massage therapy

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A condition of abnormal function involving anatomic structures or body systems

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Disease

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Affects only one area of the body

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Local disease

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Are distributed throughout the body rather than isolated to one area

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Systemic diseases

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An abrupt onset of severe signs and symptoms that run a brief course and then resolve or in some cases bring death

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Acute diseases

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Often has an insidious onset with gradual increase in signs and symptoms as the disease progresses

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Chronic disease

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Objective indicators of disease that are obvious to someone other than the affected individual

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Signs

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Are subjective feelings of which only the person experiencing them is aware

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Symptoms

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9
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Periods when clinical manifestations disappear or diminish significantly

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Remission’s

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Is when clinical manifestations become worse or more severe

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Exacerbations

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A scientific evaluation of signs and symptoms medical history and physical examination’s laboratory tests or other procedures that lead to identifying particular diseases

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Diagnosis

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A prediction of how the disease will progress and the chances of recovery based on the person’s condition and the usual course of the disease as observed in similar situations

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Prognosis

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13
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Causative factors or origins of disease

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Etiology

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14
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A disease that does not have a known calls

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Idiopathic

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15
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The tendencies that promote disease development often indicating a higher risk for a particular disease but not certain disease development

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Risk factors

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Conditions that arise after onset of the original disease such as a bacterial infection that occurs in a person who is weekend as a result of a barrel infection or a person who developed congestive heart failure after experiencing a heart attack

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Complications

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Are reported when a disease affects a significantly large number of people at the same time and I given region

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Epidemics

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Involves large numbers of people in several regions perhaps worldwide

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Pandemic

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Indicates the rate at which a disease occurs within a group or area

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Morbidity

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Represents the number of deaths resulting from a disease within a specific time period

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Mortality

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As the number of new cases in a particular population during a specific time.

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Incidence

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Refers to the number of all existing cases of disease within a particular population

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Prevalence

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23
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Characteristics conditions or diseases that can be transmitted from parent to offspring

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Heredity

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The ability of disease to spread from one person to another by direct or in direct contact

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Contagious

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A biologic agent capable of causing disease

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Pathogen

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Injury or shock to the body often caused by violence or an accident

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Trauma

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27
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A protective response to infection injury or irritation

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Inflammation

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28
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Numerous ways to avoid avoid infection

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Host defenses

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29
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And invasion of pathogen’s once they have entered the host

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Infection

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A set of guidelines and procedures of infection control

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Standard precautions

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Collective principles of health preservation

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Hygiene

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Areas of the body that contain structures that when massage with the pro long or deep figures pressure may negatively affect the clientele

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Cautionary sites

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The study of disease

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Pathology

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A disease occurring without symptoms

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Asymptomatic

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Signs and symptoms of disease or injury

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Clinical manifestations

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Risk factors are also known as

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Predisposing factors

37
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Top 3 leading causes of death in the US

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  1. Heart disease
  2. Cancer
  3. Chronic Lower respiratory diseases
38
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Characteristics, conditions or diseases that can be transmitted from parent to offspring

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Heredity

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What are some risk factors of disease?

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Age
Gender
Genetics
Lifestyle
Environment 
Stress
40
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2 categories of disorders

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Congenital and traumatic

41
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What are a mass of cancerous cells called?

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Malignant tumor or neoplasm

42
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List the types of diseases

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Degenerative disease
Autoimmune disease
Deficiency disease
Genetic disease
Metabolic disease
Infectious disease
Congenital disorders
Traumatic disorders
43
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In this disease, the body mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy tissue.

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Autoimmune disease

Ex. Rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis

44
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Diseases that involve the tissue breakdown caused by overuse for those that occur naturally as a result of the aging process

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Degenerative diseases

Ex. Parkinson’s, osteoporosis

45
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Disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient in the individual diet or neutral probably

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Deficiency diseases

Ex. Tickets

46
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Diseases caused by an abnormality in the genetic code

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Genetic diseases

Ex. Cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia

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These diseases are physiologic dysfunctions that disrupt the body’s metabolism

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Metabolic diseases

Ex. Cushing disease, Diabetes Mellitis

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This disease is caused by pathogens such as bacteria fungi versus predator about the genic animals also known as communicable diseases

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Infectious diseases

Ex.pneumonia, chicken pox, measles

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Organisms in which pathogens reside

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Hosts

50
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The ability of disease to spread from one person to another by direct or in direct contact

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Contagious

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Disorders present at birth

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Congenital disorders

Ex. Alcohol fetal syndrome, spina bifida

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Agents of disease

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  1. Viruses
  2. Bacteria
  3. Fungi
  4. Protozoa
  5. Prions
  6. Pathogenic animals
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Or single celled organisms

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Bacteria

54
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This type of disease agent includes molds and yeast

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fungi

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This agent of diseases consider the smallest form of animal life it is also transmitted through contact with the feces contaminated food and water or a bite or sting from an infected insect or animal

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Protozoa

56
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An agent of diseases That affects the central nervous system and are currently untreatable and they know it causes a few diseases in mammals

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Prions

57
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An agent of disease that live on or within a host and depend on it for nourishment and replication

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Pathogenic animals

58
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Chain of infection

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  1. Infectious agent
  2. Reservoir
  3. Portal of exit
  4. Transmission
  5. Portal of entry
  6. Host susceptibility
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The three main methods of transmission are

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  1. Contact
  2. Vehicle transmission
  3. Vector transmission
60
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Two most common methods of disease transmission

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Direct and indirect contact

61
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Occurs from physical contact between infected person and a non infected person

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Direct contact

62
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Involves fomite transmission in droplet transmission

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Indirect contact

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What is it called when the infected individual touch as an object and leaves contagion residue

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Fomite transmission

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What is it when the Infected individuals calls sneezes or spit on and a noninfected individual

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Droplet transmission

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What are three forms of vehicle transmission

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  1. Food borne transmission
  2. Waterborne transmission
  3. Airborne transmission
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This type of transmission may occur by consuming pathogens that were not destroyed during preparation or storage

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Food borne transmission

67
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This transmission occurs from bathing washing drinking or ingesting food prepared with contaminated water

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Waterborne transmission

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This transmission occurs when infectious agents are released from a reservoir into the air in the form of an aerosol and travel on particles of dust or droplets

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Airborne transmission

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This transmission occurs when an infectious agents are transmitted through a common vehicle or source such as food water air and in some cases would use to buy transmission service

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Vehicle transmission

70
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This transmission uses a vector to spread infectious agents between two or more posts

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Vector transmission

71
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What is an invasion of pathogens once they have entered the host

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An infection

72
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What is a protective response to infection injury or irritation

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Inflammation

73
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What were the cardinal signs and symptoms of inflammation

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Swelling
Heat
A loss of function
Redness
Pain

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