Pathophysiology chapter 1 vocab

What is the correct term for toxic oxygen molecules formed by the reaction of oxygen and water during mitochondrial respiration?

Reactive Oxygen Species

Necrosis

Pinocytosis

Syncope

The definition of sydrome is:

An indicator that is reported by and ill individual and is often considered a "subjective" manifestation.

A specific condition with a recognizable predictable pattern

Illnesses that are caused by exposure to the health care invironment.

The study of the functional changes that occur in the body as a result of an injury, disorder, or disease.

True or False: necrosis is cellular death prompted by a genetic signal, otherwise known as "cellular suicide."

True

False

What is the term for when a ligand binds to receptors that results in signal transduction with a local effect?

Syncope

Pinocytosis

Ischemia

Paracrine signaling

Indicators of illness reported by the patient is known as? ("subjective" manufestation)

Etiology

Insidious

Symptom

Primary prevention

Illnesses that are caused by exposure to the health care environment are known as?

Insidious

Idiopathic

Etiology

Nosocomial

The process of rapid generation of new daughter cells divided from progenitor cells is known as?

Metaplasia

Proliferation

Involution

Paracrine signaling

Endogenous means?

An increase in cell size.

Gradual in onset.

Within the body system.

Presice cause of disease.

The changing of one cell type to another is known as:

Hypertrophy

Ischemia

Dysplasia

Metaplasia

Hypertophy means what?

An increase in cell size.

Actual change in cell size, shape, uniformity, arrangement, and structure.

Decreased size, particularly of tissues and organs.

Inbasive and desructive cellular growth.

What type of prevention is actions that brohibit a disease condition from occuring? (hint: wearing a helmet while riding a bike)

Secondary prevention

Primary prevention

Tertiary prevention

The study of disease in populations is knon as:

Endemic

Pandemic

Involution

Epidemiology

The meaning of dysplasia is:

Decreased xoygen supply to the cell.

Invasive and destructive cellular growth.

Actual change in cell size, shape, uniformity, arrangement, and structure.

An increase in cell size.

When incidence and prevalence of a disease are both stable and predictable it is classified as:

Pandemic

Epidemiology

Endemic

Nosocomial

Programed cell death that is propted by a genetic signal and designed to replace old cells with new cells is known as ("cellular suicide):

Necrosis

Proliferation

Endogenous

Apoptosis

True or false: malignancy is invasive and destructive cellular growth?

True

False

The spread of an epidemic disease across continents is:

Endemic

Epidemiology

Nosocomial

Pandemic

True of false: decresed size, particularly of tissues and organs is known as involution.

True

False

What is ischemia?

An increase in cell size

A mechanism of cellular death associated with inflammation.

Toxic oxygen molecules formed by the reaction of oygen and water during mitochondrial respiration.

Decreased oxygen supply to the cell.

What is the study of the functional changes that occur in the body as a result of an injury, disorder,, or disease?

Epidemiology

Etiology

Pathophysiology

I-don't-knowology

When a person loses consciousness due to a temporary decrease in blood flow to the brain.

Syndrome

Syncope

Insidious

Involution

What is pinocytosis?

An ATP requiring process of ingesting contents of small liquid-containing vesicles

The change of one cell type to another

The rapid generation of daughter cells divided from progenitor (parent) cells.

This is a made up word.

What does morbidity mean?

The prevelence of a disease.

A negative outcome with disease complications that impact the quality of life.

A forecast or prediction of how the individual will proceed through the disease process.

Death.

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