PATHOPHYSIOLOGY NURSING FINAL EXAM 200+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Pathophysiology
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Pathophysiology
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY NURSING FINAL
EXAM
200+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A+ GRADED
pathologist - ANSWER physician who looks for changes in cell and tissue
health - ANSWER the state of an organism when it functions in homeostasis
disease - ANSWER an interruption, cessation or disorde...
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY NURSING FINAL
EXAM
200+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A+ GRADED
pathologist - ANSWER ✔ physician who looks for changes in cell and tissue
health - ANSWER ✔ the state of an organism when it functions in homeostasis
disease - ANSWER ✔ an interruption, cessation or disorder of body functions,
systems or organs
homeostasis - ANSWER ✔ state of equilibrium, what the body wants
negative feedback loop - ANSWER ✔ output of system acts to oppose changes
from the input of the system, resulting stability
positive feedback loop - ANSWER ✔ output is unable to attenuate an input
change resulting in an imbalance of system, often results in disease, heart failure -
the body's response makes problem worse
Idiopathic infection - ANSWER ✔ Diseases that have no identifiable cause
Iatrogenic infection - ANSWER ✔ Diseases that occur as a result of medical
treatment
Acute infection - ANSWER ✔ short term infection
many times is more severe but with sudden onset and short duration
Nosocomial infection - ANSWER ✔ infection obtained while in healthcare
setting
Communicable infection - ANSWER ✔ contagious
,Insidious disease - ANSWER ✔ disease with no symptoms until opportunity
presents itself
ex) AIDS
pathophysiology - ANSWER ✔ study of functional or physiologic change that
result in a disruption of normal function
physiology - ANSWER ✔ normal day to day function
pathology - ANSWER ✔ the directly observable lab study of cell and tissue
changes associated with disease, study of observable changes
diagnosis - ANSWER ✔ signs and symptoms together
signs - ANSWER ✔ what we see
symptoms - ANSWER ✔ what patient tells us
etiology - ANSWER ✔ causes of the disease, how did we get the disease
predisposing factors - ANSWER ✔ risk factors for developing a disease
pathogeneisis - ANSWER ✔ process of beginning the disease, goes with etiology,
what caused the start of the disease
syndrome - ANSWER ✔ compilation of signs and symptoms that point toward a
diagnosis, AIDS - signs and lab work, compilation of signs and symptoms together
insidious - ANSWER ✔ a gradual progression with very vague of mild signs
prognosis - ANSWER ✔ how bad is it? what are the chances of recovery?
morbidity - ANSWER ✔ how many people have the disease, negatively affects
quality of life
mortality - ANSWER ✔ causes death
epidemiology - ANSWER ✔ study of disease in a population
, pathophysiology - ANSWER ✔ identifies disease before it shows signs and
symptoms, cellular changes
atrophy - ANSWER ✔ loss of growth, muscle growth diminishes
hypertrophy - ANSWER ✔ increase in the size of individual cells
AIDS - ANSWER ✔ starts with HIV, body destroys own T-helper cells when
immune response is activated, initial, secondary(latent) and final stages
mutation - ANSWER ✔ mitosis that does not result in an identical daughter cell
invasion (cancer) - ANSWER ✔ local spread where tumor grows into adjacent
tissues and destroys normal cells
metastasis - ANSWER ✔ cancer spreads to distant sites via blood and lymph
channels
seeding - ANSWER ✔ movement of neoplastic cells in body fluid or along
membranes usually in a cavity, can occur from procedures
genetic risk for cancer - ANSWER ✔ virus, inherit the mutated cell from parents
granular tissue - ANSWER ✔ red, sticky, new tissue
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