Quiz 3 Inflammation

Question 1

Fibrinous inflammation develops when?

Answer 1

Vascular permeability has increased sufficiently to allow fibrinogen to leave the vessels

Question 2

Which of the following lists best describes the composition of pus?

Answer 2

degenerating neutrophils, plasma, tissue debris, and dead microbes

Question 3

The systemic fever response is a result of what?

Answer 3

pyrogens influencing the hypothalamic thermoregulatory center in the brain

Question 4

exudate

Answer 4

contains fluid, protein, inflammatory cells

Question 5

the specific movement of neutrophils toward a focus of inflammation is?

Answer 5

chemotaxis

Question 6

increased vascular permeability seen in early acute inflammation is primarily the result of ?

Answer 6

widening of intracellular junctions between endothelial cells

Question 7

opsonization refers to

Answer 7

enhanced phagocytosis of injurious agents by leukocytes

Question 8

mast cells have an important role in inflamation because their granules release?

Answer 8

histimine

Question 9

the leakiness of vessels allows fluids, and proteins but not cells to escape (T/F)

Answer 9

False

Question 10

an active increase in blood flow to an area is termed

Answer 10

hyperemia