Cellular

Question 1

Differential diagnosis

Answer 1

List of diseases with similar symptoms that could potentially be the cause of the patient’s clinical findings.

Question 2

refractory disease

Answer 2

A disease that resists treatment, or resists treatment more than is normal for the specific disease in question

Question 3

subclinical disease

Answer 3

Also called silent disease or silent stage, or asymptomatic disease. In some diseases, the stage before symptoms are first noted.

Question 4

clinical disease

Answer 4

Stage of the disease that produces the characteristic signs and symptoms of that disease. Ex. AIDS is the clinical disease stage of HIV infections.

Question 5

Cells of unequal size

Answer 5

anisocytosis, type of dysplasia

Question 6

metaplasia

Answer 6

changing of one cell type to a more adaptable cell type, ie barrets esophagus, squamous epithelium instead of columnlaw ciliated of a smoker

Question 7

Abnormally shaped cells

Answer 7

poikolocytosis, also dysplasia

Question 8

dysplasia

Answer 8

increase of abnormal cells, early indicator of neoplasm

alterations in size, shape, and/or organization

Question 9

two destinations of irreversible injury

Answer 9

necrosis, apoptosis

Question 10

main morphological changes associated with reversible cell injury

Answer 10

fatty change

cellular swelling