quiz 1

Question 1

autopsy

Answer 1

postmortem examination of organs and tissues to determine cause of death and pathological condition

Question 2

cause of death

Answer 2

any injury/disease that produces a physiological derangement in the body that results in the death of an individual

Question 3

etiology

Answer 3

underlying cause of disease

Question 4

gross pathology

Answer 4

study the changes in structure of the body that are seen with the naked eye as a result of disease

Question 5

histopathology

Answer 5

microscopic changes that cells, tissues, and organs undergo as a result of disease

Question 6

lesions

Answer 6

circumscribed area of pathologically altered tissue, like from an injury or wound

Question 7

manner of death

Answer 7

how cause of death came about (natural, homicide, suicide, accident, undetermined)

Question 8

medicolegal (forensic) pathology

Answer 8

study of disease to ascertain cause/manner of death

Question 9

pathogenesis

Answer 9

origin and development of disease

Question 10

pathological anatomy

Answer 10

study of structural changes in body caused by disease

Question 11

pathology

Answer 11

study of disease

Question 12

special pathology

Answer 12

deals with specific features in relation to particular organs and systems