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NUR 2063 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) EXAM 3 | A+ RATED GUIDE | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (SOLVED)
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NUR 2063 Exam 31. Etiology
Answer
cause or reason for the event.
- May include agents, age, gender, health, nutritional status, genetics, etc.
2. Iatrogenic
Answer
unintended effect of a medical treatment
3. Pathogenesis
Answer
development and evolution of a disease
- Affected by time, quantity, location, and morphologic changes
4. Homeostasis
Answer
- Dynamic process
- The relative consistency of the body's internal processes
- Give and take system
- Equilibrium is necessary for all cells
5. Cachexia
Answer
- Extreme weight loss disorder
6. Benign tumor
Answer
- Slow, progressive, localized, well defined, resembles host (more differentiated), grows by
expansion, does not usually cause death
, 7. Malignant tumor
Answer
- Rapid growing, spreads (metastasis) quickly, fatal, highly undifferentiated
8. Primary prevention
Answer
do not have the disease and are trying to prevent it (vac- cines)
9. Secondary Prevention
Answer
Disease detection (yearly physical)
10. Tertiary Prevention
Answer
trying to prevent problems from the disease (rehab)
11. Function of the Mitochondria
Answer
- Power plant
- Aerobic respiration, ATP
- Contains own DNA and ribosomes
12. Osmosis
Answer
movement of water across a semipermeable membrane from an area of low concentration to high
concentration.
13. Diffusion
Answer
net movement of anything from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower
concentration.
14. Edema
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