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PATHOPHYSIOLOGY HOSA TEST/54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (A+)
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PATHOPHYSIOLOGY HOSA TEST/54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (A+)
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PATHOPHYSIOLOGY HOSATEST/54 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS (A+)
Pathology - =the study of disease
-Pathophysiology - =study of the physiology of
disease
-Syndrome - =a concurrence of symptoms that
appear in a disease state or morbid process
-Disease - =absence of balance of the
homeostatic state that normally exists in the body
-Hypertrophy - =increased size of cell or organ
unrelated to tumour
-Atrophy - =wasting of tissues, organ or the entire
body
-Dysplasia - =tissue with cells of varying size and
shape
-Hyperplasia - =increase number of cells
-Metaplasia - =one mature cell replaced by
different mature cell
, -Lesion - =circumscribed (definite area) pathologic
change in the tissues
-Ischemia - =local anaemia due to mechanical
obstruction of vessel
-Infarction - =area of necrosis (dead tissue)
resulting from local arrest or sudden insufficiency
of arterial or venous blood.
-Inflammation - =fundamental pathologic process
consisting of a dynamic complex of cytologic and
histologic reactions that occur in tissues and blood
vessels
-Metastatic - =shifting of disease from one part of
the body to another
-Benign - =refers to mild character of an illness or
non-malignant character of neoplasm
-Malignant - =resistant to treatment, occurring in
severe form and frequently fatal
-Systemic - =relates to entire organism as
distinguished from any of its individual parts/ wide
spread symptoms and destruction
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