HOSA Pathophysiology (all possible questions with correct solutions)

Syndrome correct answers a concurrence of symptoms that appear in a disease state or morbid process Disease correct answers absence of balance of the homeostatic state that normally exists in the body Hypertrophy correct answers increased size of cell or organ unrelated to tumor Atrophy correct answers wasting of tissues, organ or the entire body Dysplasia correct answers tissue with cells of varying size and shape Hyperplasia correct answers increase number of cells Metaplasia correct answers one mature cell replaced by different mature cell Lesion correct answers circumscribed (definite area) pathologic change in the tissues Ischemia correct answers local anemia due to mechanical obstruction of vessel Infarction correct answers area of necrosis (dead tissue) resulting from local arrest or sudden insufficiency of arterial or venous blood. Inflammation correct answers fundamental pathologic process consisting of a dynamic complex of cytologic and histologic reactions that occur in tissues and blood vessels Malignant correct answers resistant to treatment, occurring in severe form and frequently fatal Systemic correct answers relates to entire organism as distinguished from any of its individual parts/ wide spread symptoms and destruction Etiology correct answers cause of disease and all factors associated with causes that lead to the development of disease Infectious disease correct answers bacterial or viral agent "passed" from person-to-person Heredity correct answers transmitted from parent to offspring Mutation correct answers change in genes (DNA) Developmental correct answers mistake made as body develops