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Chapter 1 Pathology Flashcards

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What is Pathology

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The study of disease process

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What is Disease

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Any abnormal change in the function or structure within the body

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What is Pathogenesis

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The sequence of events that makes a disease apparent

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What is Etiology

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The study of the cause of a disease and is often misused as a synonym for the actual cause of a disease

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What is Idiopathic

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Diseases that have no known cause

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What is Diagnosis

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When the pathogenesis of a disease allows one to determine the actual disease

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What is Prognosis

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A prediction of the course of the disease and the prospects for the patients recovery

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What are Signs

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Objective manifestations that are physically observed by a health-care professional
EX: mass, rash, abnormal pulse rate

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What are Symptoms

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The patient’s perception of the disease, such as headache and abdominal pain. Symptoms are subjective and only the patient can identify them

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What are Tests

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An analysis of specimens taken from the patient, such as blood and excrement, can also help determine the disease process

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What is Frequency

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The rate of occurrence of a pathologic process that is measured over a given period of time, normally 1 year

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What is Incidence

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The number of newly diagnosed cases of a disease in 1 year

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What is Prevalence

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The number of people who have any given disease at any given point in time

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What is Morbidity rate

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Refers to the ratio of sick to well persons in a given area

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What is Mortality rate

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The ratio of actual deaths to expected deaths

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What is an Additive disease?

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If the disease process adds more tissues (tumors, masses, and edema).
Technical factors must be increased

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What is a Destructive disease?

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If the disease destroys tissues, such as osteoporosis and emphysema
Technical factors must be adjusted for less penetration

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What are the two classifications of diseases?

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Structural and Functional

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What is another term for structural disease?

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Organic disease

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Structural/Organic disease

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involves physical and biochemical changes within the cell also known as lesions

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What must happen for a disease to be considered structural?

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The organ must be altered in some way as to present a pathologic entity

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What are the three broad categories that classify most structural diseases?

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  1. Genetic and developmental
  2. Acquired and Inflammatory
  3. Hyperplasia and Neoplasia
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What are genetic & developmental diseases caused by?

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Abnormalities in the genetic makeup of the individual or abnormalities due to changes in utero

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Congenital disease

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present at birth

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Hereditary disease

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Result from developmental disorders genetically transmitted from either parent to the child and are derived from ancestors

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What are acquired & inflammatory diseases caused by?

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Caused by internal or external agents that destroy cells or cause the body to injure itself by means of inflammatory processes

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What are the major internal mechanisms of injury?

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Vascular insufficiency, immunologic reactions, & metabolic disturbances

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What are the major external mechanisms of injury?

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Physical and chemical substances and microbes

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What is Necrosis

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Occurs when the direct effects of an injury kill the cells in the injured area

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What is Sublethal cell injury

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Any injury to a cell that does not cause the cell to die

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What is Degeneration

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The initial cell response following injury

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What is Inflammatory disease

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Results from the body’s reaction to a localized injurious agent

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What are the different types of inflammatory diseases?

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  1. Infective diseases
  2. Toxic diseases
  3. Allergic diseases
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What are hyperplasia & neoplasia used to describe?

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Diseases characterized by increases in cell populations

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What is Hyperplasia

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A proliferative reaction to a prolonged external stimulus and usually regresses when the stimulus is removed

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What is Neoplasia

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Presumed to result from a genetic change that produces a single population of new cells, which can proliferate beyond the degree that is considered normal

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What are functional diseases?

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Those diseases in which the function of the organ may be impaired, but its structural elements are unchaged

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What is the basic change in a functional disease?

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physiologic or functional one and is referred to as a pathophysiologic change

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What diseases are considered functional?

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Many mental illnesses are considered functional

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What are the most common functional disorders?

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Tension headache and functional bowel syndrome

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What are Exogenous Agents

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Causative agents that are external in nature

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What are Endogenous Agents

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Agents that are internal in nature

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What categories are external causes of diseases divided into?

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  1. Mechanical (also known as physical)
  2. Chemical
  3. Microbiologic
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What is Trauma

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Direct physical injury by an object

type of mechanical injury

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What are Chemical injuries

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Generally categorized by the manner of injury into poisoning and drug reactions

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What are Microbiologic injuries

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Usually classified by the type of organism (such as bacteria and fungi) and are termed infections

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What is Iatrogenic

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Infections resulting from treatment by a health professional produce iatrogenic diseases

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What are the three large categories that internal causes of disease fall into

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  1. Vascular
  2. Immunologic
  3. Metabolic diseases
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Vascular diseases

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May involve obstruction of the blood supply to an organ or tissue, bleeding, or altered blood flow such as that occurs with heart failure

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What is the leading internal cause of structural disease and results in tissue necrosis due to anoxia

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Vascular insufficiency

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What is Ischemia

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Deficiency of oxygen and nutrient-laden blood in the muscle

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What is Infarct

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Area of necrotic muscle tissue

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Ischemic infarct occurring in the heart is known as what?

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myocardial infarct

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Immunologic diseases

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Are caused by aberrations of the immune system and affect the body’s ability to fight disease

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What is it called when the body produces agents that actually attack it?

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Autoimmune disease

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Metabolic diseases

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Encompass a wide variety of biochemical disorders. These are the functional activities of cells that result in growth, repair, energy release, use of food, and secretions

57
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What are the two types of injury?

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Acute and Chronic

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What is acute injury?

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Acute injury has a sudden onset and is severe although short lived

59
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What is Hypoxia

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Reduction in oxygen

60
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When an acute injury occurs, what may accompany it?

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A thrombus

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What is a thrombus and what may it do?

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Thrombi can narrow the vessel, causing vascular insufficiency

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What is a thrombus that dislodges and moves through the blood stream?

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Embolus

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What is a chronic injury?

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An injury that occurs several times

EX: a shoulder that dislocated repeatedly

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What is usually involved with a chronic injury?

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Atrophy

65
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What is atrophy?

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An acquired process that is regressive and results from a decrease in cell size of cell number or both. It is actually a progressive wasting away of any part of the body, causing impairment or loss of function

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What are the four types of Atrophy?

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  1. Senile
  2. Disuse
  3. Pressure
  4. Endocrine
67
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What is senile atrophy?

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This type of atrophy occurs with age and involves shrinkage of the brain tissue. Memory is impaired. Senile atrophy is NOT Alzheimer’s disease

68
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What is disuse atrophy?

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When a body part is not used, it will atrophy.

EX: a casted leg in which the muscle tissue shrinks considerably in 6 to 8 weeks of disuse

69
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What is pressure atrophy?

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Atrophy as a result of steady pressure on tissue is not uncommon
EX: Bedsores

70
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What is endocrine atrophy?

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This type of atrophy is caused by decreased hormonal production
EX: When a woman goes through menopause, estrogen and progesterone are no longer produced

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What are the two types of inflammation?

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Acute and chronic

72
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What is Phagocytosis

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Leukocytes attack the cellular debris and clean the site

73
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What are the four clinical cardinal symptoms of acute inflammation?

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  1. Red skin (rubor)
  2. Swelling (edema)
  3. Heat at the site (calor)
  4. Pain (dolor)
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What does vasodilation allow?

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An increase in blood supply to be delivered to the injured area

75
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What is Congestion

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Results from vasodilation. Congestion manifests itself by heat and redness of skin and becomes apparent within minutes of injury

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What is Transudate

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A collection of fluid in tissue or in a body space caused by increased hydrostatic or decreased osmotic pressure in the vasculature system without loss of protein into tissue. Transudate are clear, watery fluids with low protein content

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When there is increased osmotic pressure in the tissue because of high protein content and there is inflammation of the lymphatic flow what results?

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Exudates

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What is the difference between transudates & exudates?

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Exudates tend to be more localized than transudates because most inflammations are localized

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What are purulent exudates?

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Pus loaded with live and dead leukocytes

80
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What is suppurative inflammation?

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An inflammatory reaction with a lot of purulent exudates

81
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What is an abscess?

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A localized collection of pus

82
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What is stenosis?

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Narrowing of the organ

83
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What are the cells of the body derived from?

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The fertilized ovum cell

84
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What can the cells of the developed organism be divided into?

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Germ cells and somatic cells

85
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What are the four major categories that somatic cells are divided into?

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  1. Epithelial Cells
  2. Connective tissue cells
  3. Muscle tissue cells
  4. Nervous tissue cells
86
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What are epithelial cells?

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Those that arise from the embryonic ectoderm and endoderm

87
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What are the different functions of the different epithelial cells?

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Some create tissue to form the lining of the body spaces while others become a protective layer and cover surfaces of the various glands and organs

88
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What are connective tissues cells?

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They are mostly derived from mesoderm, and are the most widespread in the body and provide multiple functions

89
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What are the functions of the connective tissue cells?

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They lend support wherever the body needs it, such as tendons and ligaments. They connect and bind, such as muscle and bone. The produce blood cells and protect against infection

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What are the cells found in connective tissues?

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Fibroblasts, macrophages, mast cells, and other types

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What are macrophages?

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They are infection fighters and help in phagocytosis

92
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What are muscle tissue cells?

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They are also derived from mesoderm but resemble epithelial cells in their close approximation to each other

93
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What is another name for muscle tissue cells?

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Fibers

94
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What happens to muscle tissue cells when causing contraction and providing movement?

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They decrease in length and increase in thickness

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What are the three types of muscle tissues?

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  1. Voluntary (striated)
  2. Involuntary (smooth)
  3. Cardiac (involuntary, striated)
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What are nerve tissue cells?

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They are derived from ectoderm and include nerve cells (neurons) and their supporting cells (neuralgia)

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TRUE OR FALSE
Nerve tissue is the most highly specialized tissue in the body, making them one of the most radio resistant cells in the body?

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True

98
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What is the relationship between the reproductive capability of the cell and the occurrence of disease?

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Direct relationship

99
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What are the two cell types that undergo continuous replacement?

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epithelial and endothelial

100
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What is the altered tissue growth?

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Can be defined as a departure from normal tissue growth caused by the multiplication of cells

101
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What is another name for altered tissue growth?

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Growth disturbance

102
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What are the two categories of growth disturbances?

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Hyperplasias and neoplasms

103
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What are hyperplasias and neoplasms characterized by?

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proliferation of cells that increase tissue mass

104
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What is hyperplasia?

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An exaggerated response to various stimuli in the form of an increase in the number of cells in the tissue

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Can hyperplasia recede?

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Yes, if the stimulus is removed and permanent structural changes have not occurred

106
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What kind of tissues does hyperplasia involve?

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Tissues that undergo physiologic replacement, but it may involve stable tissue

107
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What may cause hyperplasia?

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Hyperplasia may be caused by a wide variety of stimuli, such as a remote response to inflammation, hormone excess or hormone deficiency, chronic irritation, or unknown factors

108
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What is hypertrophy?

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Refers to an increase in cell size

109
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What is the difference between hyperplasia and hypertrophy?

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Hyperplasia refers to an increase in cell numbers, whereas hypertrophy refers to an increase in cell size

110
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What is the term hypertrophy best applied to?

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Muscles because the muscle fiber (cell) enlarges as a response to increased workload rather than undergoing hyperplasia

111
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What is metaplasia?

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Occurs when a normal cell becomes abnormal. It is an abnormality of growth in an individual cell

112
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What does neoplasm mean?

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New growth and occurs when cell division does not progress in the usual pattern

113
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When will neoplasm result?

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If the developmental pattern is interrupted by an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells

114
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What can neoplasms be classified as?

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Benign or malignant

115
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What are benign neoplasms?

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Single masses of cells that remain localized at their site or origin and are limited in their growth

116
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What are malignant neoplasms?

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Cancerous tumors that are defined by their potential to invade and metastasize at some point

117
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What is invasion?

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Refers to direct extension of neoplastic cells into surrounding tissue without regard for tissue boundaries

118
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What is metastasis?

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Malignant neoplasms disseminate to distant sites through a process known as metastasis

119
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What are the three ways for metastasis to occur?

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  1. Lymphatic
  2. Seeding
  3. Hematogenous
120
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What is the lymphatic way for metastasis to occur?

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The cells travel through the lymph system to other areas. When the cells reach a lymph node that is too small for the cells to pass through, the tumor cells will permeate the lymph vessel wall and plant at that site

121
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What is the seeding way for metastasis to occur?

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This is a diffuse spread of tumor cells. The tumor invades a body cavity by penetration

122
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What is the hematogenous way for metastasis to occur?

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This occurs when cells penetrate blood vessels and are then sent into the circulatory system. When the large cells get trapped in the smaller vascular channels, they pass through the vessel wall and into the tissue, where they multiply

123
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How is cancer classified?

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By the tissue or blood cells in which it is derived

124
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Where do most cancers originate from & what are they called?

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Epithelial tissue and are called carcinomas

125
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When is the term sarcoma used?

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If the tumor is from non-epithelial tissue, such as connective, muscle, and bone tissue

126
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What is lymphoma?

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Cancer of the lymphatic system

127
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What is leukemia?

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Malignancy of the blood and related organs

128
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What is differentiation?

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A cell can transform from normal to cancerous, thus a tumor can closely reproduce the normal structure of the cells

129
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TRUE OR FALSE
The more highly differentiated the tumor, the less the degree of malignancy because it is most closely like the normal cells

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True

130
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What is Grading?

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The process of determining the degree of differentiation, and thus the degree of malignancy

131
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What are Grade 1 tumors?

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The most differentiated and least malignant

132
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What are Grade 4 tumors?

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The most malignant and least differentiated

133
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What is staging?

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Determining the size of the tumors at the primary site and the presence of any metastasis

134
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What is the leading cause of death due to cancer in women in the United States?

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Lung carcinoma

135
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What is the number 1 overall cause of death in women

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Heart disease

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