mechanisms of disease

Question 1

Any stimulus, internal or external that creates an imbalance in the internal environment?

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Stress

Question 1

massage therapy typically progresses through
general-specific-_____ to surface- deep- _____

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general and surface

Question 2

Good stress

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Eustress

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Bad stress

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Distress

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____ cares goal is to reduce discomfort but there’s no expectation for a cure

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Palliative

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A signal that travels toward a particular center or point of reference

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Afferent

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A signal travels away from a particular center or point of

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Efferent

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Intensifying/enhancing a feedback loop

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Positive

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Reversing/reducing a Feedback loop

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Negative

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Disease causing organisms

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Pathogens

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The internal periodic timing components of an organism that are generated within the body

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Biological rhythms

Question 11

The tendency for biological rhythms, to begin to oscillate together

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Entrainment

Question 12

A balance state of physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being

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Homeostasis

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The study of disease

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Pathology

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The study of all factors involved in causing a disease

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Etiology

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Disease with undetermined causes

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Idiopathic

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Groups or signs and symptoms that identify a pathological condition

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Syndromes

Question 17

Disease present at birth

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Congenital

Question 18

The reproduction of abnormal and undifferentiated cells that failed to mature into specialized cell types

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Anaplasia

Question 19

Categories of body types created in the 1940s by American psychologist William Herbert Sheldon

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Somatotype’s

Question 20

A person with a lean amd delicate bodybuild

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Ectomorph

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Person with medium, build, develop muscles easily, and has more muscle than fat

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Mesomorph

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Person with large build, has more fat than muscle

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Endomorph

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Cancer specialist they utilize chemotherapy medication is Antineoplastics

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Oncologist

Question 24

Occurs only in living tissue. It is a normal response that can lead to healing.

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Inflammation

Question 25

Never normal, it is associated with infection a.k.a. purulent exudate

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Pus

Question 26

A tract leading from a cavity to the surface

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Sinus

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A tract open at both ends and allows in abnormal connection between tow surfaces

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Fistula

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Typically temporary with sudden onset

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Acute

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Typically non-productive is symptom that persists or recurs for indefinite periodS

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Chronic

Question 30

Pain receptors

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Nociceptors

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Brains, ability to form new pathways or synapses in adapt to change when you learn something your brain physically changes

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Neuroplasticity

Question 32

Three types of pain dysfunction

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Allodynia Hyperalgesia Parasthesia

Question 33

Origin of the pain is a different location than the sensation

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Referred pain

Question 34

The theory that the perception of paint can be turned off

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Gate control theory

Question 35

Type of pain (itch or tickle) perceived in an area of the body, that no longer exists

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Phantom pain

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An area of skin in which sensory nerves derive from a single spinal nerve root

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Dermotome

Question 37

Something that has an impact the logically should not

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Placebo

Question 38

Blood vessels increase in size increasing blood flow ;can be caused by heat

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Vaso dilation

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Blood vessels decrease in size, decrease in blood flow can be caused by cold

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Vasoconstriction

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Narcotic analgesics, derived from the opium poppy

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Opiates

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Narcotic analgesics, but are at least partly synthetic, and not found in nature

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Opioids

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Two ways a person can be addicted

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Physical and psychological

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General adaption syndrome, three steps

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Dr. Hans selye Fight or flight-resistance-exhaustion

Question 44

Whether or not something is stressful is determined by our ____

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Perception

Question 45

The ability to bounce back

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Resilience

Question 46

Plane that divides the body into left and right

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Sagittal

Question 47

Plane that divides the body into anterior and posterior

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Frontal or Coronal

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Plane divides the body into superior and inferior

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Transverse