Gen Path Exam 1 Flashcards

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Hypoxia

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an organ is not receiving adequate oxygen within the arterial blood supplying the organ.

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2
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Often, hypoxia results from _______.

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Ischemia. But Hypoxia can also develop when ischemia is not present such as pneumonia, carbon monoxide poisoning, or a disease that inhibits the movement of the thorax.

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Cyan

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A bluish discoloration of the skin which may develop following tissue ischemia or hypoxia.

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Infection

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Microbes directly induce tissue damage or when microbes stimulate an excessive immune response which injures tissues.

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5
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Immunological reaction

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Over-activation of the normal immune mechanisms may injury cells via autoimmunity or allergies. These are commonly referred to as hypersensitivity reactions and the injury to cells comes in the form of inadvertent damage to normal cells as results of excessive or uncontrolled immune reaction.

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Trauma

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Cell and tissue injury may result from mechanical trauma, thermal trauma, electrical injury, or injury from high-energy radiation.

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Aging

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The reduced capacity for cells to react to stress and maintain homeostasis is known as cellular senescence.

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8
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Reversible cellular injury

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Cellular swelling (not enough ATP which results in accumulation of ions within cell) and fatty change (steatosis) (accumulation of lips vacuoles within a cell’s cytoplasm)

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9
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The primary organ known to manifest with fatty change following injury

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Liver (hepatic injury can be caused by excessive alcohol use or diabetes)

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10
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Cellular death is associated with what three things?

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  1. Significant mitochondria damage, 2. damaged plasma membrane, 3. genetic/nuclear damage
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11
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Cellular death occurs what two pathways?

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  1. apoptosis, 2. necrosis
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12
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Apoptosis is useful when…..

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  1. unrated cells during development, 2. tissue homeostasis, 3. severe DNA damage, 4. severe protein damage, 5. a loss of cellular survival signals, 6. cells that have been infected by viruses
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13
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Morphologic features are observed when a cell undergoes necrosis. These changes are primarily observed in the _______ and ________.

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Cytoplasm and nucleus

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Name two cytoplasmic changes that take place during necrosis and describe what they are.

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  1. Eosinophilia: necrotic cells manifest with an increased pink or red appearance with standard hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stain. 2. Myelin figures: necrotic cells contain membrane damage and myelin figures are rolled-up or scroll-like area of the lipid bilayer that is within a cell. These findings require an electron microscope to be seen. Myelin figures are not involved with actual myelin, just resembling.
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Name three nuclear changes that take place during necrosis and describe what they are.

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  1. Pyknosis: nuclear shrinkage and increased basophilia (blue-staining or darker appearance), due to nuclear DNA condensing.
  2. Karyorrhexis: after pyknosis, it will fragment or fall apart.
  3. Karyolysis: after karyorrhexis, nucleus continues to degrade and basophilia fades. After 1 or 2 days, nucleus will complete disappear.
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16
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Name the 6 distinct patterns of necrosis.

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  1. Coagulative necrosis: Firm texture for several days after tissue dies then WBC will phagocytize tissue and left will be a cavity or scar tissue (solid organs that experience severe ischemia- i.e. myocardial infarction)
  2. Liquefactive necrosis: When the CNS experiences ischemia (i.e. stroke)
  3. Gangrenous necrosis (ischemic necrosis): extremities experience coagulative necrosis (i.e. peripheral vascular disease, frostbite, major trauma that obstructs blood supply)
  4. Dry gangrene
  5. Wet gangrene: gangrenous tissue becomes infected with various bacteria and tissue liquefies
  6. Gas gangrene occurs when bacteria (clostridium perfringens) infects gangrenous tissue and gas byproducts become trapped within tissue.
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17
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Etiology

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The cause, “risk factors”

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18
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Pathogenesis

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sequence of events; describes the biological mechanisms that describe the structural and functional abnormalities of a disease process

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19
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What are two types of cellular adaptations?

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Physiological adaptations (to be expected) and pathological adaptations (responses to cellular stress)

20
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Name the four main adaptations to stress.

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Hypertrophy (increase cell size), hyperplasia (increase number of cells), atrophy (shrinkage of cell size), metaplasia (one cell type is replaced by another cell type)

21
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Which adaptation to stress involves reduced protein synthesis and increased rate of protein breakdown?

22
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T/F Metaplasia can be reversible.

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True (if stressor goes away)

23
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Which adaptation to stress has the highest association with malignant transformation?

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Metaplasia

24
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Pathology

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Study of experience, suffering

25
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Homeostasis

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Tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium

26
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Disease

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Structural and/or function change in body that is harmful to organism

27
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Sign

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Objective; examiner’s observation; physical

28
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Symptom

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Subjective; patient’s experience; oral report/history

29
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Name two factors that influence a cell’s ability to adapt.

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  1. Cell type

2. Nature of the cellular stress

30
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Another name for irreversible injury.

31
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Two types of cell death

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Necrosis and apoptosis

32
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Name a physiologic and pathologic reason for hypertrophy.

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Physiologic: weight lifting, pregnant uterus
Pathologic: ventricular hypertrophy

33
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Medical term for hardening

34
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Rhinophyma

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form of rosacea with sebaceous gland hypertrophy and idiopathic (enlarged nose an more likely in men)

35
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Possible cause of swelling from injury.

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Cell not able to get enough ATP (water goes where solutes are/inside cell)

36
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Another name for fatty

37
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Name a physiologic and pathologic reason for hyperplasia.

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Physiologic: liver donation, breast and uterus
Pathologic: human papilloma virus (warts)

38
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Name 5 reasons for atrophy

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  1. Disuse
  2. Denervation
  3. Ischemia
  4. Endocrine disruption
  5. Aging (type II fibers)
39
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Describe reversible injury

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Transient or mild stressor; minimal membrane damage; nucleus is intact; cellular swelling; fatty accumulation

40
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Describe irreversible injury

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Death; prolonged or severe stressor; irreparable mitochondrial damage; damaged to membrane; undergoes apoptosis or necrosis

41
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Describe apoptosis

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Non inflammatory; decreased growth factors or damage to DNA/proteins

42
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Describe necrosis

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Inflammatory; trauma, toxins, ischemia

43
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Pyknosis

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solid, shrunken mass

44
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Karyorrhexis

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fragmentation

45
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Karyolysis

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Fading, dissolution

46
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T/F Necrosis can occur under special physiological circumstances.

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False: always pathological

47
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Patterns of necrosis

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  1. coagulative (gangrenous)
  2. liquefactive
  3. caseous
  4. fat (enzymatic)
  5. fibrinoid