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NUR 612 Exam 1 (Module 1) UAB Study Guide Solutions Physiology - ANSWER-Study of the normal functions of the human body Pathophysiology - ANSWER-The study of the cellular and organ changes that occur with disease and the effects that these changes have on the total body function Focuses on the...

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Physiology - ANSWER✔✔-Study of the normal functions of the human body


Pathophysiology - ANSWER✔✔-The study of the cellular and organ changes that occur

with disease and the effects that these changes have on the total body function


Focuses on the mechanism of the underlying disease and provides information to assist

with planning preventive as well as therapeutic health care measures and practices such

as following a healthy diet, exercising, and being compliant with prescribed

medications


Determinants of Health - ANSWER✔✔-Attain lives free of preventable disease,

disability, injury, and premature death.


Achieve health equity and eliminate disparities


Promote good health for all


Promote healthy behaviors across the life span


Disease - ANSWER✔✔-An acute or chronic illness that one acquires or is born with that

causes physiological dysfunction in one or more body system



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,Etiology - ANSWER✔✔-Explains the cause of the disease


Pathogenesis - ANSWER✔✔-How the disease process evolves


Sequence of cellular and tissue events that occur from initial contact with an etiologic

agent until the ultimate expression of the disease occurs


Morphologic changes - ANSWER✔✔-The microscopic and gross changes that are

characteristic in a disease process


Histology - ANSWER✔✔-The microscopic study of cells and extracellular matrix


Lesion - ANSWER✔✔-A pathologic or traumatic change of an organ or tissue


Clinical Manifestations - ANSWER✔✔-The hidden or obvious evidence that a person is

sick


Symptoms - ANSWER✔✔-Subjective complaints noted by the person with the disorder

such as pain, difficulty breathing, headache, blurred vision


Signs - ANSWER✔✔-Disease manifestations noted by the observer such as temperature

elevation, a blown pupil and pitting edema


Syndrome - ANSWER✔✔-A compilation of signs and symptoms


Complication - ANSWER✔✔-Adverse extension of a disease or treatment


Sequelae - ANSWER✔✔-Lesions or impairments that follow or are caused by a disease




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,Diagnosis - ANSWER✔✔-Designation as to cause or nature of a health problem;

involves evaluating competing possibilities and selecting the most likely one from

many conditions in a given age, gender, race, lifestyle, genetic background and locality

based upon


History - ANSWER✔✔-The person's account of symptoms, progress, and factors that

contribute to a diagnosis


Physical Exam - ANSWER✔✔-Performed to identify signs of altered body structure or

functions; also may identify problems not obtained in the history


Acute disorder - ANSWER✔✔-Relatively severe, but self-limited


Subacute disorder - ANSWER✔✔-Intermediate between an acute and a chronic

disorder, general not as severe as an acute disorder and does not last as long as a

chronic disorder


Chronic disorder - ANSWER✔✔-Continous, long-term process


May improve or get worse


Preclinical stage - ANSWER✔✔-Disease is not clinically evident but will progress to

clinical disease


Sublcinical disease - ANSWER✔✔-Not clinically apparent and not destined to become a

clinical disease




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, Clinical disease - ANSWER✔✔-The disease is present as manifested by signs and

symptoms


Carrier Status - ANSWER✔✔-A person has an organism but is not infected as

evidenced by an antibody response or by clinical manifestations; this person CAN infect

others


Epidemiology - ANSWER✔✔-The study of disease occurrence in human populations


Incidence - ANSWER✔✔-Reflects the number of new cases of a particular illness during

a specified time for a population at risk that does not have the disease


Prevalence - ANSWER✔✔-Measures existing disease in a population at a given point in

time


Morbidity - ANSWER✔✔-Describes the effects of an illness


Mortality - ANSWER✔✔-Death


Risk Factors - ANSWER✔✔-Conditions suspected of contributing to a development of a

disease


Cross-sectional - ANSWER✔✔-Use the simultaneous collection of information to

classify exposure and outcome status


Used to compare prevalence of disease in those with exposure factor to those

unexposed to the factor



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