Disease and Illness (Disease Pathogenesis Overview) Flashcards
What is pathology (2)?
- the scientific study of disease
- a medical specialty concerned with diagnosis
What are the 2 components of pathology? What are they called when combined?
Etiology
Pathogenesis
-combine to make etiopathogenesis
What is etiology?
the cause of disease
What is pathogensis?
events and mechanisms that take place in the evolution of a disease
What are the two types of structural alterations?
- anatomic pathology
- histopathology
What is anatomic pathology?
what’s wrong with the anatomy that goes with disease
What is histopathology?
the study of the structure and organization of disease tissues
What is functional alterations?
-pathophysiology
Describe pathology in practice (3).
Diagnosis (identification), Prognosis (expectation), prevention (think pap-smear)
What is a disease vs Illness (4) ?
disease - biological concept
illness - total of the effect on the patient - goes beyond disease to include human aspects of life
-tissue get disease, people get illnesses
What are the 7 classes of disease?
- blood vessel and blood perfusion diseases
- inflammatory diseases
- infectious diseases
- immunologic diseases
- neoplasms and growth disorders
- genetic diseases (most diseases have a genetic component)
- Environmental
What does idiopathic mean?
we do not know what causes it
Who developed the pap smear?
George Papanickola
When did cellular pathology get interesting?
1800s (probably 1870ish)
What did Rudolph Virchow do?
H&E stain
