A cellular adaptation observable in the goblet cells of a smoker's respiratory tract is:
, a. Atrophy
b. Apoptosis
c. Hyperplasia
d. Metaplasia - hyperplasia
Define atrophy - decrease in cell size
Define hypertrophy - increase in cell size
define hyperplasia - increase in number of cells
Define metaplasia - Change to a different cell type
Define dysplasia - abnormal development or growth (pre-cancerous)
Cellular Atrophy - decrease in cell size may result from physiological atrophy and pathological atrophy
physiological atrophy - early development
pathological atrophy - A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease
Which of the following types of adaptive cell responses has the potential to progress to neoplasia?
Select one:
a. Dysplasia
b. Hyperplasia
c. Metaplasia
d. Atrophy - dysplasia
Define neoplasia - abnormal growth of tissue
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