PATHOLOGY

Question 1

principal adaptive responses of the cell during stress

Answer 1

hypertrophy, hyperplasia, atrophy, and metaplasia

Question 2

cell injury is _ (reversible / irreversible)

Answer 2

reversible

Question 3

lack of blood flow

Answer 3

ischemia

Question 4

responses of cells to normal stimulation by hormones or endogenous chemical mediators

Answer 4

physiologic adaptation

Question 5

responses to stress that allow cells to modulate their structure and function, and thus escape injury

Answer 5

pathologic adaptation

Question 6

mechanisms driving cardiac hypertrophy involve at least two types of signals that are soluble mediators that stimulate cell growth

Answer 6

mechanical triggers and stretch trophic trigger

Question 7

shrinkage in the size of the cell by the loss of cell substance

Answer 7

atrophy

Question 8

reversible change in which one adult cell (epithelial or mesenchymal) is replaced by another adult cell type

Answer 8

metaplasia