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Nur 529 exam 1 Questions and Answers (2024 / 2025) (Verified Answers)
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1 / Nur 529 exam 11.Pathogenesis : explains how the disease process evolves. Sequence of cellular and tissue events that take place from the time of initial contact with an etiologic agent until the ultimate expression of a disease.
2.morphology: Refers to the fundamental structure or form of cells or tissues. Changes are concerned with both the gross anatomic and microscopic changes that are characteristic of a disease .
3.Histology: Deals with the study of the cells and extracellular matrix of
body tissues. Sections play an important role in the diagnosis of many types of cancers.
4.Clinical Manifestation: make it evident that the person is sick (fever)
5.Diagnosis: Designation as to the nature or cause of a health problem. Requires a careful history, physical examination, and diagnostic tests. .Clinical Course: Describes the evolution of a disease. A disease can have an acute, subacute, or chronic course. Acute disorder is relatively severe, but self-limit- ing. Chronic disease implies a continuous, long-
term process. Subacute disease is an intermediate or between acute and chronic; not as severe as an acute disease and not as prolonged as a chronic disease .
7.Primary Prevention: directed at keeping disease from occurring by removing risk factors
8.Secondary Prevention: detects disease early when it is still asymptomatic and treatment measures can effect a cure or stop the disease from progressing
9.Reliability: •the extent to which an observation, when repeated, gives
the same result
10.Validity: the extent to which a measurement tool measures what it is intended to measure .Sensitivity: •determining the likelihood or how well the test or observation identifies people with a disease
12.Specificity: •determining the likelihood or how well the test or observation identifies people without a disease
13.Predictive value: •the extent to which an observation or test result is able to predict the presence of a given disease or condition
14.Incidence: the number of new cases arising in a population at risk during a specified time
15.Prevalence: a measure of existing disease in a population at a given point in time
16.Morbidity: describes the effects an illness has on a person's life
17.Mortality: pertains to the causes of death in a given population
18.Tertiary Prevention: directed at clinical interventions that prevent further dete- rioration or reduce the complications of a disease that is already present
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