Health and Disease

Question 1

Aetiology

Answer 1

Cause of disease

Question 2

Pathogenesis

Answer 2

How the disease develops

Question 3

Symptom

Answer 3

What the patient feels

Question 4

Sign

Answer 4

What the doctor sees

Question 5

Diagnosis

Answer 5

Define the abnormality to the patient and scientifically

Question 6

Prognosis

Answer 6

Predict the patients outcome and treat on this basis

Question 7

Pathology

Answer 7

Study of disease

Question 8

Lesion

Answer 8

The abnormality

Question 9

Macroscopic

Answer 9

Seen with the naked eye

Question 10

Microscopic

Answer 10

Seen with magnification

Question 11

Biochemical

Answer 11

Seen at the chemical level

Question 12

Pathophysiological

Answer 12

Functional

Question 13

Natural disease

Answer 13

6 broad categories but are specific entities

Question 14

Inflammation

Answer 14

Succession of changes in living tissue when it is injured to protect against further damage eg Neisseria Meningitidis infection

Question 15

Circulatory disturbances

Answer 15

Abnormalities of blood flow, vessel wall, components of blood eg MI

Question 16

Disorders of growth

Answer 16

Abnormal cell growth , maturation quantity and differentiation control eg HPV

Question 17

Degenerative disorders

Answer 17

Heterogeneous group - abnormalities of tissues/organs eg. amyloidosis deposition of protein in tissue causing loss of function

Question 18

Developmental

Answer 18

Abnormalities of gametogenesis or embryogenesis eg Trisomy 21 downs syndrome

Question 19

Traumatic

Answer 19

Accidental or deliberate eg fractured bone

Question 20

Iatrogenic

Answer 20

Treatment related eg immunosuppression in chemotherapy for malignancy