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What are well defined, characteristic structural changes in organs and tissues as a
result of disease? - Answer Lesions
What is the definition of disease? - Answer Disturbance of body structure or function
What kind of disease is associated with structural changes and the gross and
histological examination of it such as cancer? - Answer Organic disease
What disease shows no morphological abnormalities yet functions are disturbed such as
hypertension? - Answer Functional disease
What is the study of disease and who studies it? - Answer Pathology; pathologist
Symptoms vs signs - Answer subjective manifestations such as pain, itchiness vs.
physical findings such as redness or swelling
What disease shows symptoms and or signs and which doesn't? - Answer symptomatic
vs asymptomatic
What is the agent responsible for causing disease called? - Answer Etiologic agent
What is any microorganism that causes the disease? - Answer Pathogen
What kind of diseases cause developmental disturbances and are caused by genetic
abnormalities, intrauterine injury, or interaction of genetic and environmental factors? -
Answer Congenital and hereditary diseases
Name a hereditary and a congenital disease - Answer hemophilia and German measles
What kind of disease reacts to injury through an inflammatory process such as sore
throats, hay fever, diabetes type 1? - Answer Inflammatory disease
What do degenerative diseases cause and name two? - Answer tissue or organ
denegeration as a result of aging or breakdown, such as arthritis and atherosclerosis
What disease causes a disturbance in metabolic processes in the body such as
diabetes, hyperthyroidism or electrolyte imbalances? - Answer Metabolic diseases
What do neoplastic diseases cause such as cancer? - Answer Uncontrolled cell growth
which turns into tumors
Good health requires what? - Answer active participation, assuming responsibility for
, one's health
Traditional medicine vs modern medicine - Answer
What is a prognosis? - Answer An opinion about the evnentual outcome of disease and
the outlook for recovery
What two kinds of treatment are there? - Answer Specific and asymptomatic
What are the 5 steps of clinical history? - Answer History of current illness, medical
history, family history, social history, review of symptoms
What kind of diagnosis considers various diseases or conditions that may also explain a
patient's symptoms and signs? - Answer Differential diagnosis
What kind of screenings are there? - Answer Test for detection of disease and for
genetic diseases
What are the purposes of clinical laboratory tests? - Answer To determine concentration
of substances in blood or urine frequently altered by disease
What are the most popular tests of electrical activity? - Answer ECGs
What are radioisotope studies used for? - Answer Evaluate organ function by
determining rate of uptake and excretion of substances labeled
What test is used to examine the interior of the body using rigid or flexible tubular
instruments equipped with lens and a light source? - Answer Endoscopy
What procedures are used to perform surgery formerly done through large incisions
into the trachea. bladder, abdomen? - Answer Bronchoscope, cytoscope, labaproscope
What test appears white on film with the high-density tissues such as bone absorbing
most of the rays? - Answer Radiopaque
What test appears dark on film with low-density tissues allowing rays to pass through? -
Answer Radioluscent
What contrast medium outlines the GI tract? - Answer Barium sulfate
What adaptation method causes cell size to increase but not the number of them such as
the muscles of a weight lifter or those that have high bp? - Answer Hypertrophy
What is hyperplasia? - Answer The increase of size of a tissue or an organ's size
because of an increase of number of cells due to a high demand of them such a glanduar
tissue of the breasts during pregnancy
What is the change from one type of cell to another, such as the lining of a chronically
inflamed bladder? - Answer Metaplasia
What is dysplasia? - Answer Abnormal disturbance of cell development and maturation
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