Inflammation & Healing

Question 1

A LOCALIZED POCKET OF INFECTION OR PURRLENT EXUDATE SURROUNDED BY INFLAMMATION

Answer 1

ABSCESS

Question 2

A BAND OF FIBROUS SCAR TISSUE FORMING AN ABNORMAL CONNECTION BETWEEN TWO SURFACES OR STRUCTURES (BINDING TWO LOOPS OF INTESTINE TOGETHER)

Answer 2

ADHESION

Question 3

THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW CAPILLARIES

Answer 3

ANGIOGENESIS

Question 4

LOSS OF APPETITE

Answer 4

ANOREXIA

Question 5

A CHECMICAL RELEASES IN THE BODY DURING AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE OR IMMUNE RESPONSE

Answer 5

CHEMICAL MEDIATOR

Question 6

THE MOVEMENT OF CELLS TOWARD OR AWAY FROM AN AREA OF THE BODY IN RESPONSE TO CHEMICAL SIGNALS (PHAGOCYTIC CELLS MOVE TO AN AREA OF TISSUE INJURY)

Answer 6

CHEMOTAXIS

Question 7

THE COMMON PROTEIN MAKING UP CONNECTIVE TISSUE AND BONE

Answer 7

COLLAGEN

Question 8

SHORTENING OF A MUSCLE OR SCAR TISSUE CAUSING IMMOBILITY AND DEFORMITY OF A JOINT OR STRUCTURE

Answer 8

CONTRACTURE

Question 9

THE PASSAGE OF LEUKOCYTES THROUGH INTACTCAPILLARY WALLS TO A SITE OF INFLAMMATION

Answer 9

DIAPEDESIS

Question 10

THE RATE AT WHICH RBCs SETTLE OUT OF A BLOOD SPECIMENT (CONTAINING ANTICOAGULANT); AN ELEVATION IN ESR IS A GNERAL CHARACTERISTIC OF INFLAMMATION

Answer 10

ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE (ESR)

Question 11

A FLUID THAT ACCUMULATES AND MAY LEAK FROM TISSUE, FOR EXAMPLE, A SEROUS EDUDATE DUE TO ALLERGY, A PURULENT EXUDATE, OR PUS ASSOCIATED WITH INFECTION

Answer 11

EXUDATE

Question 12

THE PLASMA PROTEIN THAT IS FORMED INTO SOLID FIBRIN STRANDS DURING THE CLOTTING PROCESS

Answer 12

FIBRINOGEN

Question 13

THE STERIOD HORMONES FROM THE ADRENAL CORTEX, FOR EXAMPLE, CORTISOL (HYDROCORTISONE), THATINCREASE BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS AND ACT TO DECREASE INFLAMMATION AND ALLERGIC REACTIONS

Answer 13

GLUCOCORTICOID

Question 14

NEWLY DEVELOPED FRAGILE TISSUE, CONSISTING OF FIBROBLASTS AND BLOOD VESSELS, FORMED DURING HEALING

Answer 14

GRANULATION TISSUE

Question 15

A NODULAR DESTRUCTIVE MASS ASSOCIATED WITH SOME CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OR INFECTION

Answer 15

GRANULOMA

Question 16

PERCENTAGE OF ERYTHROCYTES IN A BLOOD SAMPLE

Answer 16

HEMATOCRIT

Question 17

THE BLOOD CELL PRODUCTION PROCESS

Answer 17

HEMATOPOIESIS

Question 18

INCREASED BLOOD FLOW IN AN AREA, RESULTING IN A WARM, RED AREA

Answer 18

HYPEREMIA

Question 19

A GROUP OF ANTIVIRAL GLYCOPROTEINS PRODUCED BY VIRAL-INFECTED CELLS

Answer 19

INTERFERONS

Question 20

INTO THE JOINT CAVITY OR JOINT SPACE

Answer 20

INTRAARTICULAR

Question 21

CELL ENZYMES SPECIFIC TO CERTAIN ORGANS THAT DIFFER SLIGHTLY IN STRUCTURE BUT HAVE SIMILAR FUNCTIONS

Answer 21

ISOENZYMES

Question 22

A COLORLESS CELL THAT CIRUCLATES IN THE BLOOD AND BODY FLUIDS AND IS INVOLVED IN COUNTERACTING FOREIGN SUBSTANCES; A WBC

Answer 22

LEUKOCYTE

Question 23

AN ABOVE-NORMAL NUMBER OF LEUKOCYTES (WBCs) IN THE BLOOD

Answer 23

LUKOCYTOSIS

Question 24

A TYPE OF WBC THAT SURROUNDS AND KILLS MICROORGANISMS, REMOVES DEAD CELLS, AND STILULATES THE ACTION OF OTHER IMMUNE SYSTEM CELLS

Answer 24

MACROPHAGE

Question 25

A GENERAL FEELING OF DISCOMFORT OR UNEASE OR OF BEING UNWELL

Answer 25

MALAISE

Question 26

A TYPE OF WBC THAT IS IMPORTANT PART OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND HELPS THE BODY FIGHT INFECTION

Answer 26

NEUTROPHIL

Question 27

A SMALL HOLE

Answer 27

PERFORATION

Question 28

THE STATE OR QUALITY OF A MATERIAL OR MEMBRANCE THAT CAUSES IT TO ALLOW LIQUIDS TO PASS THROUGH IT

Answer 28

PERMEABILITY

Question 29

A CELL THAT CAN SURROUND, INGEST, AND DESTROY MICROORGANISMS, CELL DEBRIS, OR FOREGIN SUBSTANCES

Answer 29

PHAGOCYTE

Question 30

LIKE PUS; THICK, YELLOWISH MATERIAL IN TISSUE OFTEN RESULTING FROM BACTERIAL INFECTION

Answer 30

PURULENT

Question 31

FEVER

Answer 31

PYREXIA

Question 32

A SUBSTANCE THAT CAUSES FEVER, A RAISE IN BODY TEMPERATURE

Answer 32

PYROGEN

Question 33

TISSUE REPAIR THROUGH REPLACEMENT BY IDENTICAL FUNCTIONING CELLS

Answer 33

REGENERATION

Question 34

WATERY SECRETION

Answer 34

SEROUS

Question 35

AN IOEN, CRATERLIKE LESION ON THE SKIN OR MUCOUS MEMBRANES

Answer 35

ULCER

Question 36

WHEN VESSELS WIDEN, ALLOWING MORE BLOOD FLOW

Answer 36

VASODILATION

Question 37

MOST COMMON CAUSE OF DELAYED WOUND HEALING IN THE OPERATIVE PATIENT

Answer 37

WOUND INFECTION

Question 38

WOUNDS WITH SIGNIFICANT BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION, FOREIGN BODIES ARE GENERALLY CLOSED BY WHICH INTENTION

Answer 38

GRANULATION (2ND INTENTION)

Question 39

PHASE OF HEALING WHICH BEGINS WITHIN MINUTES OF INJURY

Answer 39

INFLAMMATORY

Question 40

WHAT CAUSES LOCALIZED TEMPERATURE ELEVATION DURING THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE

Answer 40

INCREASED BLOOD FLOW

Question 41

BURN THAT ONLY INVOLVES THE EPIDERMIS ONLY

Answer 41

1ST DEGREE OR SUPERFICIAL BURNS

Question 42

BURN THAT INVOLVES THE EPIDERMIS AND VARYING LEVELS OF DERMIS

Answer 42

2ND DEGREE OR PARTIAL-THICKNESS BURNS

Question 43

BURN THAT INVOLVES ALL LAYERS OF THE SKIN INCLUDING THE ENTIRE DERMIS

Answer 43

3RD DEGREE OR FULL-THICKNESS BURNS

Question 44

IN THE ADULT, WHAT SYSTEM IS USED TO ESTIMATE THE TOTAL BODY SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN BURNED

Answer 44

RULE OF NINES EACH UPPER LIMB = 9% EACH LOWER LIMB = 18% ANTERIOR & POSTERIOR TRUNK = 18% EACH HEAD & NECK = 9% PERINEUM & GENITALIA = 1%