Formative Assessment - 06.11.23

Question 1

What type of metaplasia occurs in the lining of the bronchi of cigarette smokers?

Answer 1

Ciliated respiratory epithelium to squamous epithelilum

Question 2

What process is defined by the formation of a solid mass of blood constituents within an intact vascular system during life?

Answer 2

Thrombosis

Question 3

Name a drug which inhibits platelet aggregation

Answer 3

Aspirin

Question 4

What is the name of the main effector cell in acute inflammation?

Answer 4

Neutrophil

Question 5

What is the name of the cells that produce collagen in fibrous scarring.

Answer 5

Fibroblasts

Question 6

Which of the following is an example of acute inflammation?

A) Glandular fever
B) Leprosy
C) Appendicitis
D) Tuberculosis

Answer 6

C) Appendicitis

Question 7

In which one of the following does granulomatous inflammation occur?

A) Crohn’s disease
B) Acute appendicitis
C) Infectious mononucleosis
D) Lobar pneumonia

Answer 7

A) Crohn’s disease

Question 8

In which one of the following is a chronic inflammatory process from its start?

A) Appendicitis
B) Cholecystitis
C) Infectious mononucleosis
D) Lobar pneumonia

Answer 8

C) Infection mononucleosis

Question 9

Which of the following is an example of hyperplasia?

A) Bodybuilder’s biceps
B) Enlarged left ventricle
C) Benign prostate enlargement
D) Wasting of quadriceps after immobilisation

Answer 9

C) Benign prostate enlargement

Hyperplasia - increased number of cells
Hypertrophy - same number of cells but cells are bigger (A+B)
Atrophy - smaller cells or decreased number of cells (D)

Question 10

Which one of the following is not an example of apoptosis?

A) Loss of cells from tips of duodenal villi
B) Loss of cells during embryogenesis
C) Renal infarction
D) Graft vs host disease

Answer 10

C) Renal infarction - THIS IS NECROSIS rather than apoptosis

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of atrophy?
A) Biceps of a body builder
B) Uterus in pregnancy
C) Brain in dementia
D) Prostate in older age

Answer 11

C) Brain in dementia

Question 12

Which os the following is an example of necrosis?

A) Loss of cells from duodenal tips
B) Loss of individual cells in graft versus host diseases
C) Loss of individual cells during development
D) Renal infarction

Answer 12

D) Renal infarction