CSB520 Exam Latest Update
Cytology - Answer Study of Cells
Histology - Answer Study of tissues
Eosinophilic - Answer Very pink tissue stain indicating cytoplasmic-rich cells
Basophilic - Answer Attracted to bases, dark blue/purple tissue stain with large nuclei
and scant cytoplasm
Muscles types - Answer Skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle
Fibroblasts - Answer Make up CT, produce collagen
Adipocytes - Answer Large cells, cytoplasm full of fat, nucleus against edge
Endocrine - Answer secreted into blood
Exocrine - Answer Secreted into duct
Cellular differentiation - Answer The characteristics that determine the cell type
Labile Tissue - Answer continuously dividing
Stable/Quiescent Tissue - Answer Need stimulus to divide
Permanent Tissue - Answer Non-dividing
Phagocytosis - Answer Recognition and attachment -> engulfment -> killing and
degradation
Autophagy - Answer Nutrient depletion -> formation of autophagic vacuole around
cytoplasmic organelles -> lysosome -> degradation -> used as source of nutrients
Physiology - Answer Study of the function of living things
Pathology - Answer Scientific study of disease
Active - Answer requiring energy
Passive - Answer Does not need energy
Aerobic - Answer With oxygen
Anaerobic - Answer Without oxygen
Hypoxia - Answer Lack of oxygen
Ischaemia - Answer Lack of blood supply
, Reperfusion - Answer Restoration of blood following period of ischaemia
Lipofuscin - Answer "Wear and tear" pigment, brown pigment composed of oxidised
lipids, phospholipids and proteins, indicative of oxidative stress
Apoptosis - Answer Programmed cell death
Necrosis - Answer Catastrophic cell death
Calcification - Answer When cells harden into calcium carbonate/insoluble calcium
compound
Coagulative - Answer change to a solid or semi-solid state
Liquefactive - Answer Liquify
Caseous - Answer soft, friable, "cheesy" material
Atrophy - Answer Wasting away
Hyperplasia - Answer abnormally increased development due to increased production
rate of cells
Hypertrophy - Answer abnormally increased development due to increase in size of
cells
Sterile Body Sites - Answer Blood, brain & CSF, bone & marrow, lower respiratory,
upper urogenital, stomach
Hyperaemia - Answer Active accumulation of blood within the vessels
Congestion - Answer Passive accumulation of blood within the vessels
Oedema - Answer Excess fluid in interstitial fluid/body cavities
Exudate - Answer Inflammatory extravascular fluid with high protein concentration
Transudate - Answer Extravascular fluid with low protein concentration
Pus - Answer Purulent inflammatory exudate high in neutrophils, cell debris &
sometimes pyogenic organisms
Inflammation - Answer The body's general response to injury and infection
Chemotaxis - Answer Locomotion (movement) according to a chemical gradient
Chemokine - Answer Agent that induces chemotaxis
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