General Pathology A

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The study of diseases of animals

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Veterinary pathology

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The culmination of various defects, deficiencies or excesses at the cell or tissue level which may ultimately express in a clinically apparent dysfunction

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Diseases

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Refers to abnormal microscopic and gross change in a cell, tissue or organ and system as a result of a disease. It also involves biochemical alterations

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Lesion

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Any outside or inside influences in the animal or individual that would cause changes either in physiology and morphology of the cell

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Injury

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Any stimulus or succession of stimuli of such magnitude that tend to disrupt the homeostasis of the organism

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Stress

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The sequential development of disease

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Pathogenesis

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Maintenance of the steady state in an organism by coordinated physiological processes or feedback mechanisms

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Homeostasis

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Refers to the capacity to produce a disease

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Pathogenicity

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Refers to the degree of pathogenicity or disease producing power of the organism

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Virulence

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Set of lesions that would highly indicate the disease

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Pathognomonic

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Expected outcome of a disease

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Prognosis

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The act of deciding the nature, cause and course of a disease

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Diagnosis

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What are the 4 types of diagnoses?

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Clinical
Morphological
Etiological
Definitive

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The type of diagnosis that is based on laboratory identification/isolation

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Etiological diagnosis

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Type of diagnosis that is based on signs and symptoms

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Clinical diagnosis

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Type of diagnosis that is based on gross and microscopic lesion

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Morphological diagnosis

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Type of diagnosis that is based on confirmatory evidence which results to naming the disease

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Definitive diagnosis

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Term for man-made or artifiacally-induced disease

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Iatrogenic disease

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Term for a disease where the injurious agent or etiology is unknown

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Idiopathic disease

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Term for a disease where the disease is caused by the individual’s peculiarity

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Idiosyncrasy

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Post-mortem examination if animals

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Necropsy

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The removal of/and examination of tissue from a live individual or animal

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Biopsy

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The microscopic study of lesions in a tissue section

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Histopathology

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The father of modern pathology

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Rudolf Virchow

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The father of veterinary medicine

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Aristotle

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The father of medicine

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Hippocrates

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The most commonly used stain for histopathological examination

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Hematoxylin and Eosin stain (H&E)

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The medical symbol in veterinary medicine

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Caduceus with the V superimposed

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Mechanisms and causes of cell injury (7)

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Hypoxia Physical agents Chemical agent Infectious agents Immunological reactions Genetic derangements Nutritional imbalances

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In the presence of injury, the fate of the cell may only end up to one of 3 ways. What are these?

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Fight it off Adaptation Cell death

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Term for a form of reversible cell injury. It is an adaptive change that may progress to cell death

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Degeneration

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The term for accumulation of substances in abnormal quantities

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Infiltration

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What are the types of intracellular infiltrations? (4)

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Water vacuoles Fat vacuoles Glycogen vacuoles Intracellular inclusions

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What are the diseases of the body regarding amount of cortisol? (2)

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Addison's disease Cushing's syndrome

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This disease is a condition in which the adrenal glands are underactive and do not produce enough cortisol and, in some cases, not enough aldosterone.

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Addison's disease or hypothyroidism

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This disease is a condition in which the adrenal glands are overactive. This occurs due to a benign pituitary tumor, which causes excessive cortisol production

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Cushing's syndrome or hyperthyroidism