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What is pathology? correct answers Pathology is the study of diseases that can cause abnormalities in the structure or function of various organ systems of the body. A definition of disease. correct answers Disease is the patter of the body's response to some form of injury that causes a devia...

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Intro to Pathology for Radiologic
Technology

What is pathology? correct answers Pathology is the study of diseases that can cause
abnormalities in the structure or function of various organ systems of the body.

A definition of disease. correct answers Disease is the patter of the body's response to
some form of injury that causes a deviation from or variation of normal conditions.

List 5 causes of disease. correct answers 5 causes of disease:
1) Hereditary
2) trauma
3) infectious organisms
4) vascular processes
5) metabolic processes

List 6 terms related to disease. correct answers 6 terms related to disease:
1) Signs 2) symptoms 3) latrongenic
4) nosocomial infections
5) community acquired infections
6) Idiopathic

Define term Signs. correct answers Signs: what it looks like. Measureable or objective
manifestations.

Define term Symptoms. correct answers Symptoms: Feeling that the patient describes.
Subjective manifestations.

Define term latrogenic. correct answers latrogenic: Disease caused by physician or
treatment.

Define term nosocomial infections. correct answers Nosocomial Infections: contracted
from acute care facility, hospital or clinic.

Define term Community Acquired Infections. correct answers Community Acquired
Infections: Contracted in a public setting outside of the acute care facility, hospital or
clinic.

Define term Idiopathic. correct answers Idiopathic: Underlying cause is unknown.

, Define x-ray attenuation. correct answers x-ray attenuation means absorption.How
much x-ray the tissue absorbs. With increased attenuation, there is more white, so
technique must go up.

What can diseases do to tissue structure? correct answers Diseases can alter the
density of tissue structure, thus needed to adjust technique either up or down
depending on the condition.

2 things mAs can control. correct answers 2 things mAs controls:
1) mAs controls quantity
2) mAs should be adjusted to get rid of greys

Name 8 skeletal additive diseases that would require an increase in technique. correct
answers 8 skeletal additive diseases that would require an increase in technique:
1) Acromegaly
2) Acute Kyphosis
3) Exostosis
4) Hydrocephalus
5) Marble Bone
6) Metastasis -Osteosclerotic
7) Osterochondroma
8) Paget's Disease

Define additive disease: Acromegaly. correct answers Acromegaly: a chronic metabolic
condition. Enlargement and thickening of bones of face a jaw. Additive disease.

Define additive disease: Acute Kyphosis correct answers Acute Kyphosis: a convex -
reverse- curvature of the spine. additive disease.

Define additive disease Exostosis. correct answers Exostosis: A bony growth on the
surface of a bone or tooth. additive disease.

Define additive disease: Hydrocephalus. correct answers Hydrocephalus: an
accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, esp. in infancy, due to obstruction of the
movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on
the brain. If hydrocephalus becomes progressive, a shunt is surgically placed to reduce
pressure by conducting fluid away from the brain, usually to the peritoneum. additive
disease.

Define additive disease: Marble Bone correct answers Marble Bone: An inherited
disorder characterized by an increase in bone density; in severe forms the bone marrow
cavity may be obliterated. additive disease.

Define additive disease: Metastasis (osteosclerotic) correct answers Metastasis -
osteoscloerotic-: Pathology Transmission of pathogenic microorganisms or cancerous
cells from an original site to one or more sites elsewhere in the body, usually by way of

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