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WCU PATHO FINAL Exam Questions And
Answers 2025 Update.

TERITARY PREVENTION - Answer✔Ex: Counseling, Rehabilitation, Management programs,
Support groups.

Goal is prevent furthur damage and maximize quality of life.

SECONDARY PREVENTION - Answer✔Ex: Interventions, Recommending, Assisting with finding
work, Assisting with medication.

Goal is to slow or stop progress.

PRIMARY PREVENTION - Answer✔Ex: Education, Legistlation, Regular exams, Vaccinations

Goal is to protect healthy people from developing disease.

LATENT VS. PRODROMAL - Answer✔1) LATENT:
Exposure --- First S/S
2) PRODROMAL:
First S/S --- Disease

Endemic - Answer✔(adj.) native or confined to a particular region or people; characteristic of or
prevalent in a field

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Subclinical - Answer✔Stage of a disease or disorder not severe enough to produce symptoms
that can be detected or diagnosed.

Functions NORMALLY.

What is an example of etiology? - Answer✔ETIOLOGY: Study of causes or reason of disease.

1) Latrogenic: UNKNOWN
2) Idiopathic: UNINTENDED or UNWANTED

Allostasis - Answer✔The body's ability to maintain a STABLE physiological environment by
adjusting and CHANGING to meet internal and external demands.

What hormones secrete during stress response? - Answer✔1) Coritsol: breakdowns fat and
protein.
2)ACTH:
3)Epinephrine:
Released by adrenal medullas.

Selyes three phases of stress - Answer✔1)Alarm
2)Resistance
3)Exhaustion

The sympathetic nervous system is mediated by - Answer✔NOREPINEPHRINE

What are the types of intracellular accumulations? - Answer✔1) Normal Intracellular
accumulation: Water, lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates, that accumulates in EXCESS.

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2) Abnormal Intracellular accumulation:
-Exogenous: minerals or infectious agent product.
-Endogenous:
-abnormal synthesis or metabolism

Types of Cellular Adaptation - Answer✔1) Hyperplasia: INCREASE in the NUMBER of cells.
-EX: A benign prostatic hypertrophy in middle aged men.

2) Hypertrophy: INCREASE in the SIZE of cells

3) Atrophy: REDUCTION in the SIZE of cells.
-EX: Skeletal muscle atrophy occurs when an extremity has been immobilized.

4) Metaplasia: CHANGES to the cells to adapt to new environments.

5) Anaplasia: LOSS of cellular differentiation.
-Indication of malignant tumors.

6) Dysplasia:Cell MATURATION and differentiation are delayed.
-Loss of uniformity of cells.
-Precursor to cancer
EX: Pap smear shows dysplasia cells of the cervix

7) Neoplasia: NEW or expended GROWTH in an area of the body.
EX: Benign neoplasm is uterine fibroid tumors.

8) Apoptosis: The genetic instructions provided DNA to command CELLULAR SELF-
DESTRUCTION

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Types of Necrosis - Answer✔1) Coagulation: Low oxygen levels (blood clot)
-Lysomal changes
-Cyltosol congeals/coagulates
-Stroma

2) Liquifaction: Bacterial infection.
-Neutrophils creats pus.
-Cause abcesses.

3) Caseous: A slow, progressive process that produces thick, cheesy pus.
-Tuberculosis

4) Fat: Inflammatory reaction with large number of WBC.
-Inflammatory disease of pancreas.

5) Gangrenous: Combination of coagulation and liquifcation.
-Dry, Wet, Gas

What are side effects of chemotherapy? - Answer✔1) Anemia
2)Nausea
3)Bleeding
4) Infection

Cancer Terminology: - Answer✔1) oma: tumor, mass, fluid collection
2) carcinoma: cancer tumor
3) sarcoma: connective tissue tumor

Grading vs. Staging - Answer✔1) Grading: Histologic characterization of tumor cells.

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