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Oral pathology test 2 Flashcards

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Abscess

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Collection of purulent exudate that accumulated in a contained space

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Actinic

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Exhibiting chemical changes that are produced by radiant energy; relates to the exposure of ultraviolet rays of sunlight

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Angiogenesis

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Formation and differentiation of Blood vessels

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Atrophy

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Decreased in size and function of a Cell, tissue, organ, or whole body

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Bio chemical mediators

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Chemicals in the body that activate respones

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Central in context of oral lesions

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Lesion with in the bone

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Chemotaxis

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Movement of White Blood cells, directed by biochemical mediators to an area of injury

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C-reactive protein

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Nonspecific protein, produced in the liver, becomes elevated during acute inflammation or infection

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Cyst

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Abnormal sac or cavity lined by epithelium And surrounded by fibrous CT

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Cytolysis

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Dissolution or destruction of the a cell

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Demastication

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Tooth wear is increased by chewing abrasive substance

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Edema

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Excess level of plasma or exudate in the interstitial space resulting in tissue swelling

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Emigration

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Passage of WBC trough the walls of small blood vessels and into injured tissue

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Epithelialization

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Process of renewal o a surface layer of epithelium

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Exudate

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Body fluid with high protein content that leaves the micro circulation during an inflammatory response that consists of serum that contains WBC, fibrin, and other protein molecules

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Fever

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Body temperature greater than 98.6 F (37C)

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Fibroblasts

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Cells that form fibers and intercellular substance

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Fibroplasia

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Formation of fibrous tissue that occurs in healing

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Fistula

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Abnormal passage that leads from an abscess to the surface of the body

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Granulation tissue

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Initial Connective tissue formed in healing

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Granuloma

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Lesion composed of a collection of macrophages usually surrounded by a rim of lymphocytes that are formed during chronic inflammation

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Hyperemia

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Excess of blood within blood vessels in part of the body

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Hyperplasia

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Enlargement of a tissue or organ resulting from a increase in the number of cells; result of increased cell division

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Hypertrophy

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Enlargement of a tissue or organ resulting from increase in size of its individual cells but not in the number of cells

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Inflammation

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Nonspecific response to injury that involves the micro circulation and its blood cells

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Injury

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Alteration in the environment that causes tissue damage

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Keloid

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Excessive scarring that mainly occurs in skin with healing

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Leukocytosis

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Increase in number of WBC circulating in blood

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Leukopenia

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decrease in the number of WBC circulating in blood

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Local

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Disease process that is confined to a limited location in the body that is not general or systemic

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Lymphadenopathy

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Abnormal enlargement of a lymph node

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Macrophage

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2nd type of WBC to arrive at a site of injury that was originally a monocyte; participates in phagocytosis during inflammation and continues to be active in the immune response

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Margination

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Process during inflammation in which WBC tend to move to the periphery of the blood vessel at the site of injury

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Microcirculation

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Small blood vessels, ( Arterioles, capillaries, and venues of the vascular system)

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Myofibroblasts

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fiberoblasts that have some of the characteristics of smooth muscle cells ; Ability to contract

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Necrosis

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Pathological death of one or more cell, part of tissues or organ that results from irreversible damage to cells

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Neutrophil

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1st WBC to arrive at a site of injury; Primarily in Acute inflammation “polymorphonuclear leukocyte”

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Opacification

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Process of becoming opaque

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Opsonization

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Enhancement of phagocytosis by a process in which pathogen is marked with opsonins for destruction by phagocytes

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Osteoblast

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Cell that forms bone

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Pavementing

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adherence of WBC to blood vessel walls during inflammation

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Peripheral

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Lesions within the gingival tissue or alveolar mucosa

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Phagocytosis

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Ingestion and digestion of particulate material by cells

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Purulent exudate

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Exudate with pus or forming pus

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Pyrogens

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Fever-inducing substances produced from white blood cells or pathogenic microorganisms

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Radicular

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Pertaining to the root of a tooth

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Regeneration

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Process by which injured tissue is replaced with tissue identical to that present before the injury

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Repair

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Restoration of damaged or diseased tissue by cellular change and growth

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Serous exudate

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Watery consistency resembles a serum

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Systemic

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Pertains to or affecting the body as a whole as well as a disease process pertaining to or affecting the body as a whole

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Transudatae

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Extravasculuar fluid component of blood that passes through the endothelial cell walls of the microcirculaton

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White blood cells

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Cells in the blood and surrounding tissues called leukocytes, involved in the inflammatory and immune responses

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Traumatic injury

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Disease process that results from injury that causes tissue damage

54
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Waldeyers ring

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Ring of lymphatic tissue formed by the two palatine tonsil, pharyngeal tonsil, lingual tonsil and intervening lymphoid tissue

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