Intro to Pathophysiology

Question 1

What is the definition of pathophysiology?

Answer 1

Study of disease and injury
Changes is physiology of the body
Pathology (lab studies of cells and tissues)

Question 2

What is the definition of disease?

Answer 2

Disruption of homeostasis
Physical, mental, and social

Question 3

What is the definition of homeostasis?

Answer 3

Tendency to maintain an equilibrium
Steady state of internal chemical and physical conditions
The body and organs function best when in the normal range

Question 4

What are intrinsic conditions that cause disease?

Answer 4

Conditions that come from inside the body (overproduction/underproduction of a hormone/chemical)
Genes, immunity, age, gender

Question 5

What are extrinsic conditions that cause disease?

Answer 5

Bacteria, viruses, injury, behaviors, stressors, fungi

Question 6

How do you identify the process of disease?

Answer 6

Signs and symptoms

Question 7

What are signs?

Answer 7

Objective data (see, hear, touch, etc)

Question 8

What are symptoms?

Answer 8

Subjective data (what the patient tells you-nausea, pain, etc)

Question 9

What is etiology?

Answer 9

Cause of disease

Question 10

What are the stages of disease?

Answer 10

Exposure, onset, remission, and convalescence.

Question 11

What is the exposure stage of disease.

Answer 11

Where was the exposure?

Question 12

What is onset stage of disease.

Answer 12

Was the disease sudden, insidious (slow/gradual), latent (not active but lies and waits), prodromal, or mainfestations?

Question 13

What is the remission stage of disease?

Answer 13

No longer active

Question 14

What is the convalescence stage of disease?

Answer 14

Recovering from the disease

Question 15

What are the three types of disease?

Answer 15

Idiopathic, iatrogenic, and exacerbation

Question 16

Describe idiopathic disease.

Answer 16

We don’t know what caused it
UNKNOWN
We might have ideas or theories

Question 17

Describe iatrogenic disease.

Answer 17

Caused by some treatment
A ‘medical’ cause

Question 18

Describe exacerbation disease.

Answer 18

Worsening of a disease
Acute decline in a person’s chronic disease

Question 19

What doe hypo- mean?

Answer 19

Under, below

Question 20

What does hyper- mean?

Answer 20

Above, over

Question 21

What does -penia mean?

Answer 21

lack of, deficiency

Question 22

What does -cytosis mean?

Answer 22

refers to cells, increase

Question 23

What does -osis mean?

Answer 23

Process or condition
Production or increase
Invasion or infection

Question 24

What does -itis mean?

Answer 24

Inflammation

Question 25

What does -pathy mean?

Answer 25

Disease or suffering

Question 26

What do you want to know about if someone complains of a cough?

Answer 26

Is it productive? if so, what color is it? Is it thick/thin? When are you coughing? Acute or chronic? History of allergies, smoking, medications?

Question 27

What systems may be affected when patient has a cough?

Answer 27

Lungs or heart

Question 28

What other symptoms may be seen with a cough?

Answer 28

Pain (headache), swelling/edema, fever, fatigue, weight loss.