SBCP Mid Exam Questions And
Accurate Answers
What is pathophysiology? - Answer the study of functional changes that result from a
disorder or a disease
Patho = - Answer disease, abornomality
physiology = - Answer the study of the function of living organisms (normal functions)
Define disorder (condition) - Answer abnormality of function eg major depressive
disorder
Define disease - Answer particular pathophysiological condition with characteristic
features eg COPD
acute disease - Answer develops and resolves quickly
chronic disease - Answer a disease that develops gradually and continues over a long
period of time
subacute disease - Answer symptoms between acute and chronic
Clinical Manifestations - Answer signs and symptoms or evidence of disease
syndrome - Answer Group of symptoms that, when occurring together, reflect a specific
disease or disorder
A cellular adaptation observable in the goblet cells of a smoker's respiratory tract is:
a. Atrophy
b. Apoptosis
c. Hyperplasia
d. Metaplasia - Answer hyperplasia
Define atrophy - Answer decrease in cell size
Define hypertrophy - Answer increase in cell size
define hyperplasia - Answer increase in number of cells
Define metaplasia - Answer Change to a different cell type
, Define dysplasia - Answer abnormal development or growth (pre-cancerous)
Cellular Atrophy - Answer decrease in cell size may result from physiological atrophy
and pathological atrophy
physiological atrophy - Answer early development
pathological atrophy - Answer A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or
part owing to disease
Which of the following types of adaptive cell responses has the potential to progress to
neoplasia?
Select one:
a. Dysplasia
b. Hyperplasia
c. Metaplasia
d. Atrophy - Answer dysplasia
Define neoplasia - Answer abnormal growth of tissue
A symptom is: - Answer subjective indication of the experience reported by the patient.
Which of the following is an inherited genetic factor that influences cellular ageing?
a. Free radical damage
b. Reduced enzymatic activity
c. DNA repair defects
d. Damage to integral organelles - Answer DNA repair defects
cellular ageing - physiological process - - Answer to maintain functionality of the
organism
Define apoptosis - Answer programmed cell death
Define necrosis - Answer cell death due to injury
cellular ageing - pathological process - Answer necrosis, for example a cut - disease
develops when cells fail to adapt to stressors and become injured and die
genetic factors of cellular ageing - Answer dna repair defects
accumulation of mutations
genetic abnormalities
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