Atrophy...

Question 1

What is hypertrophy?

Answer 1

Increase in size of a tissue caused by an increase in size of the constituent cells

Question 2

What is hyperplasia?

Answer 2

Increase in size of a tissue caused by an increase in number of the constituent cells.

Question 3

Example of hypertrophy

Answer 3

Skeletal muscle

Question 4

Example of hyperplasia

Answer 4

Smooth muscle, enlarged prostate, endometrium.

Question 5

Example of combined hypertrophy and hyperplasia

Answer 5

Pregnancy

Question 6

What is atrophy?

Answer 6

Decrease in size of a tissue caused by a decrease in the number of the constituent cells or a decrease in their size.

Question 7

Metaplasia

Answer 7

The change in differentiation of a cell from one fully-differentiated type to a different fully-differentiated type.

Question 8

Example of metaplasia

Answer 8

Bronchus in a smoker changes from ciliated columnar epithelium to squamous epithelium

Question 9

Example of dysplasia

Answer 9

Imprecise term for the morphological (structure) changes in cells in the progression to becoming cancer.
Plasia=growth
Dys= not right