Pathology Q Midterms
cyst
"a sac-like structure, containing fluid or a semi-solid substance."
Glioma
Brain
Rhabdomyoma
Heart
Hyperplasia is increase in the size of the body part due to increase in number of cells.
True
Thrombosis
blood clot
Lipoma
fatty tumor
"When substances enter the body and accumulate in excessive amount, it is called."
infiltration
arteritis
inflammation of an artery
What are the common causes of inflammation? Choose all correct answers.
living organisms physical irritants hypoxia chemicals immunological reactants
Neuroma is a tumor found in.
nervous tissue
Close-ranged gunshot wound
wide zone of powder stippling
Benign tumors grow by _______ and malignant tumors by _______.
"expansion, infiltration"
papilloma
A benign, superficial, wartlike growth on the epithelial tissue or elsewhere in the body, such as in the bladder.
A lizard loses its tail in an horrific garden accident. The process of the lizard regrowing its tail is an example of
A form of regeneration
Two types of diseases are
Acute and chronic
Chest pain
Angina
Which tumor is comprised of vessels and can be located anywhere in the body?
Angiomas
Which type of heart disease causes too much blood to pass from the heart into the lungs and results in the "blue baby" effect?
Atrial Septal Defect
Chondroma
Bone
hematoma
Bruise. a solid swelling of clotted blood within the tissues.
Acute cardiac failure
Complete occlusion of coronary artery
What is NOT a postmortem condition associated with a disturbance in circulation?
Dehydration
-itis
Denotes inflammation
edema
Excessive accumulation of fluid
Body's response to tissue injury by burning is called infection.
False
Cachexia is associated with patients who have good nutrition, wasting away of the body, and exhibit starvation.
False
Ductus arteriosus means opening between pumonary artery and aorta fails to open
False
Exogenous (external) pigmentation refers to changes in color of the skin resulting from a very bad sunburn
False
Exogenous pigmentation is when a substance enters inside an organ from the body causing discoloration.
False
The study of neoplasms or tumors is called ecology.
False
Pathology is the study of the tissues which have been removed from the body
False.
Cardiomyopathy is the disease of heart value
False. Disease of the heart muscle
The end result of a cremation would be considered a 3rd degree burn.
False. It would be considered a 4th degree burn
Leucocytosis is the drop in number of white blood cells due to infection.
False/ Its an increase
The type of pathological study one would typically see on a crime drama on television would be
Forensic Pathology
Atherosclerosis
Formation of plaques in the arteries
A branch of pathology that deals with general or broad disease processes such a necrosis
General pathology
Common name for a MI
Heart Attacks
Blood disorders are divided into one of three categories. Which one does not apply?
Hemolytic disorders
This blood disease is characterized by having a lack of clotting factors that stop bleeding.
Hemophilia
Factors affecting cardiovascular systems
Heredity, obesity, diet, diabetes
A branch of pathology that studies changes which occur in cell of the body at the microscopic level
Histopathology
Stab wound
Incision
Blunt force wound
Laceration
Aneurysm
Localized weakening and dilation of an artery
Infections you catch at a hospital are called
Nosocomial infections
Embolism
Obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot of blood or foreign substance
If you did not know the definition of a term, one could break the word down into its component parts. Using this technique, a young scientist who lost his Tabor's Cyclopedic Dictionary could reason that "hypoxia" is most closely associated with
Oxygen
Chronic cardiac failure
Partial occlusion of coronary artery
The ring around your calf that you get at the end of the day upon taking your socks off is an example of
Pitting Edema
A "Head Freeze" is a technique used to
Prevent swelling in the head while embalming by using a specific injection technique.
A large puss-filled knot or lesion on your body is an example of
Purulent inflammation
Cellular swelling, fatty degeneration and amyloid degeneration are three examples of
Regressive cellular changes
Why would diseases of the heart and blood vessel be of particular concern to an embalmer?
Result in vascular damage that impede introduction of embalming fluid
This hereditary blood disorder primarily affects people of color: African Americans, Native Americans, and Mediterranean people.
Sickle Cell Anemia
Langer's Lines
Similar to the grain of wood
A branch of pathology that studies disease processes affecting individual body areas or systems.
Special pathology
What is the underlying purpose of vasoconstriction relative to inflammation?
To isolate contaminates within the injury site from other body parts
A tumor can still be malignant even if it ends in the suffix -oma
True
Dilation and hypertrophy both describe the increase in the size of the heart
True
Endogenous (internal) pigmentation could refer to the discoloration of blood pigment caused by a bruise on the skin.
True
Longevity refers to the absolute biological limits that a human being can survive
True
SIDS or Sudden Infant Death, is often caused by structural abnormalities and birth defects.
True
There are two types of tumors: benign and malignant.
True
Prolapse is a condition of heart
Valves
Are the veins that become dilated and tortuous
Varicose
What is a primary cause of hernias?
Weakness in the muscle wall that contains the affected organ
aplasia
absence of body parts.
Any disease which is obtained after birth.
acquired
abscess
an area of pus surrounded by a wall of tissue
furuncle
an ascess in the deeper layer of the skin
vesicle
an elevation on the skin with fluid
pustule
an elevation on the skin with pus
ischemia
an inadequate blood supply to an organ or part of the body, especially the heart muscles.
hyperplasia
an increase in the number of cells
hypertrophy
an increase in the size of cells
Melena is
black, tarry stool caused by digested blood in the GI tract
Which on the following is a form of necrosis in which a cheeselike substance is located at the center of an area of pink necrosis surrounded by inflammatory granule?
caseous necrosis
pandemic
diseases that affect a large number of people.
These are diseases that are characterized by fever.
febrile
infarction
formation of a blood clot within the heart or vessels.
Arteriosclerosis
hardening of the arteries
Which one of the following is not a cause of cellular injury?
homeostasis
Some of the causes of cancer are______. Choose all correct answers.
hormones Heredity viruses environmental factors
A disease that results from a physician's treatment of a patient.
iatrogenic
ulcer
localized area of necrosis on the skin or mucous membrane
"Which one of the following is characterized by cellular swelling, changes in nature of cellular proteins, and the breakdown of cellular organelles in dead cells?"
necrosis
Inflammation of the veins is called
phlebitis
_______ is a form of papilloma that grown with a stem from the underlying tissue.
polyp
amyloid degeneration
present in Alzheimer's disease
hernia
protrusion of an organ through the wall of the body cavity in which it is contained.
etiology
refers to the study of the causes of disease.
metaplasia
regeneration of the cells after injury
Atrophy
shrinkage of cells
Nevus or melanoma is a cancer of .
skin
Leiomyoma
smooth muscle tumor
glioma
tumor composed of the glial tissue
angioma
tumor of a blood vessel
adenoma
tumor of a gland
chondroma
tumor of cartilage
osteoma
tumor of the bone
This term describe the replacement of damaged tissue with identical tissue.
regeneration
leiomyoma
smooth muscle tumor
In the narrowing of the opening of the heart values
stenosis
A "big box" black and white television from the days of old would have what structural abnormality if it were human?
Achromatopsia
The human body has the ability to regrow some internal organs that have been reduced in size, often from surgery. The spontaneous regeneration of such organs is an example of
Physiological hyperplasia
