Introduction Flashcards
cutting out of tissue from a live person
biopsy
incisional vs. excisional biopsy?
incisional is small part of tissue, excisional is all of it
Dissection of a dead body to determine the cause of death.
autopsy
___% of clinical diagnoses may be wrong
25
“Crown’s man”–establishes who/what/where/when/how of death
coroner
types of deaths coroners investigate:
violence, accident, suicide, homicide, criminal activity, custody, negligence, unexplained
the study of blood in health and disease
hematology
biochem of body constituents
clinical chem
blood banking and transfusion
immunohematology
bacteria and viruses in disease
microbiology
programmed cell death
apoptosis
3 blotting techniques
southern (gene patterns), western (protein size), northern (locating sequence of RNA)
surgical, cytology, and autopsy incorporated in ___ pathology
anatomical
clinical chem, microbio, hematology incorporated in ___ pathology
clinical