Oral pathology test 2

Question 1

Abscess

Answer 1

Collection of purulent exudate that accumulated in a contained space

Question 2

Actinic

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Angiogenesis

Answer 3

Formation and differentiation of Blood vessels

Question 4

Atrophy

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Bio chemical mediators

Answer 5

Chemicals in the body that activate respones

Question 6

Central in context of oral lesions

Answer 6

Lesion with in the bone

Question 7

Chemotaxis

Answer 7

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

Question 8

C-reactive protein

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Cyst

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Cytolysis

Answer 10

Dissolution or destruction of the a cell

Question 11

Demastication

Answer 11

Tooth wear is increased by chewing abrasive substance

Question 12

Edema

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Emigration

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Epithelialization

Answer 14

Process of renewal o a surface layer of epithelium

Question 15

Exudate

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Fever

Answer 16

Body temperature greater than 98.6 F (37C)

Question 17

Fibroblasts

Answer 17

Cells that form fibers and intercellular substance

Question 18

Fibroplasia

Answer 18

Formation of fibrous tissue that occurs in healing

Question 19

Fistula

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Granulation tissue

Answer 20

Initial Connective tissue formed in healing

Question 21

Granuloma

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Hyperemia

Answer 22

Excess of blood within blood vessels in part of the body

Question 23

Hyperplasia

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Hypertrophy

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Inflammation

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Injury

Answer 26

Alteration in the environment that causes tissue damage

Question 27

Keloid

Answer 27

Excessive scarring that mainly occurs in skin with healing

Question 28

Leukocytosis

Answer 28

Increase in number of WBC circulating in blood

Question 29

Leukopenia

Answer 29

decrease in the number of WBC circulating in blood

Question 30

Local

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Lymphadenopathy

Answer 31

Abnormal enlargement of a lymph node

Question 32

Macrophage

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Margination

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Microcirculation

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Myofibroblasts

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Necrosis

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Neutrophil

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Opacification

Answer 38

Process of becoming opaque

Question 39

Opsonization

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Osteoblast

Answer 40

Cell that forms bone

Question 41

Pavementing

Answer 41

adherence of WBC to blood vessel walls during inflammation

Question 42

Peripheral

Answer 42

Lesions within the gingival tissue or alveolar mucosa

Question 43

Phagocytosis

Answer 43

Ingestion and digestion of particulate material by cells

Question 44

Purulent exudate

Answer 44

Exudate with pus or forming pus

Question 45

Pyrogens

Answer 45

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

Question 46

Radicular

Answer 46

Pertaining to the root of a tooth

Question 47

Regeneration

Answer 47

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

Question 48

Repair

Answer 48

Restoration of damaged or diseased tissue by cellular change and growth

Question 49

Serous exudate

Answer 49

Watery consistency resembles a serum

Question 50

Systemic

Answer 50

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

Question 51

Transudatae

Answer 51

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

Question 52

White blood cells

Answer 52

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

Question 53

Traumatic injury

Answer 53

Disease process that results from injury that causes tissue damage

Question 54

Waldeyers ring

Answer 54

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