basic terms

Question 1

Pathological and clinical manifestations

Question 2

Complications & sequelae

Question 3

Prognosis

Question 4

Eponymous disease

Answer 4

A disease or lesion named after a person or a place associated with it.

Question 5

Syndrome

Answer 5

An aggregate of signs and symptoms or combination of lesions without which the disease is not diagnosed.

Question 6

Lesion

Answer 6

The structural or functional abnormalities causing ill health

Question 7

Pathognomonic abnormality

Answer 7

Features restricted to a single disease or disease category

Question 8

a) Primary and secondary
b) Morbidity and mortality
c) Remission and relapse
d) Symptoms and signs

Answer 8

Primary: Disease without antecedent cause ( idiopathic , spontaneous)
Example primary hypertension
Secondary: Disease representing a complication or manifestation of another disease.
Example Secondary hypertension

Remission
Process of conversion of active disease to quiescence. (normal state)

Relapse
State when signs and symptoms reappear.

Morbidity: Sum of effects of disease on patient

Mortality: Death is the end result

A.What the patient complains of.

B.What the doctor elicts or identifies.

Question 9

Cytopathology

Answer 9

FNAC -Sites
Thyroid
Breast
Lymph node

Exfoliative cytology
Pap /Cervical smear Bronchial washings Fluids Cytology
Pap smear

Fixative : 95% ethyl alcohol
Stain: Papanicoloau stain

Question 10

Haematology

Answer 10

Leishman stain