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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...

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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

cancer risks/causes - ANSWER ✔ viruses, radiation, chemicals, biologic factors,
age, diet, hormones

TNM - ANSWER ✔ tumor, node, metastasis - cancer staging

idiopathic - ANSWER ✔ unknown reason

iatrogenic - ANSWER ✔ caused by treatment procedure or error

cellular death - ANSWER ✔ brain can tolerate hypoxia - 5 min, heart -30 minutes
and then irreversible cell death occurs

apoptosis - ANSWER ✔ cell programmed death, neat, clean

granular tissue - ANSWER ✔ red, sticky, new tissue

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