mechanisms of disease Flashcards
Any stimulus, internal or external that creates an imbalance in the internal environment?
Stress
massage therapy typically progresses through
general-specific-_____ to surface- deep- _____
general and surface
Good stress
Eustress
Bad stress
Distress
____ cares goal is to reduce discomfort but there’s no expectation for a cure
Palliative
A signal that travels toward a particular center or point of reference
Afferent
A signal travels away from a particular center or point of
Efferent
Intensifying/enhancing a feedback loop
Positive
Reversing/reducing a Feedback loop
Negative
Disease causing organisms
Pathogens
The internal periodic timing components of an organism that are generated within the body
Biological rhythms
The tendency for biological rhythms, to begin to oscillate together
Entrainment
A balance state of physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being
Homeostasis
The study of disease
Pathology
The study of all factors involved in causing a disease
Etiology
Disease with undetermined causes
Idiopathic
Groups or signs and symptoms that identify a pathological condition
Syndromes
Disease present at birth
Congenital
The reproduction of abnormal and undifferentiated cells that failed to mature into specialized cell types
Anaplasia
Categories of body types created in the 1940s by American psychologist William Herbert Sheldon
Somatotype’s
A person with a lean amd delicate bodybuild
Ectomorph
Person with medium, build, develop muscles easily, and has more muscle than fat
Mesomorph
Person with large build, has more fat than muscle
Endomorph
Cancer specialist they utilize chemotherapy medication is Antineoplastics
Oncologist
Occurs only in living tissue. It is a normal response that can lead to healing.
Inflammation
Never normal, it is associated with infection a.k.a. purulent exudate
Pus
A tract leading from a cavity to the surface
Sinus
A tract open at both ends and allows in abnormal connection between tow surfaces
Fistula
Typically temporary with sudden onset
Acute
Typically non-productive is symptom that persists or recurs for indefinite periodS
Chronic
Pain receptors
Nociceptors
Brains, ability to form new pathways or synapses in adapt to change when you learn something your brain physically changes
Neuroplasticity
Three types of pain dysfunction
Allodynia
Hyperalgesia
Parasthesia
Origin of the pain is a different location than the sensation
Referred pain
The theory that the perception of paint can be turned off
Gate control theory
Type of pain (itch or tickle) perceived in an area of the body, that no longer exists
Phantom pain
An area of skin in which sensory nerves derive from a single spinal nerve root
Dermotome
Something that has an impact the logically should not
Placebo
Blood vessels increase in size increasing blood flow ;can be caused by heat
Vaso dilation
Blood vessels decrease in size, decrease in blood flow can be caused by cold
Vasoconstriction
Narcotic analgesics, derived from the opium poppy
Opiates
Narcotic analgesics, but are at least partly synthetic, and not found in nature
Opioids
Two ways a person can be addicted
Physical and psychological
General adaption syndrome, three steps
Dr. Hans selye
Fight or flight-resistance-exhaustion
Whether or not something is stressful is determined by our ____
Perception
The ability to bounce back
Resilience
Plane that divides the body into left and right
Sagittal
Plane that divides the body into anterior and posterior
Frontal or Coronal
Plane divides the body into superior and inferior
Transverse
