Pathophysiology chapter 1 vocab

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

The definition of sydrome is:

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

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

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

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

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

True or false: insidious is the gradual onset of disease?

Endogenous means?

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

True or false: idiopathic means the precise cause of disease?

Hypertophy means what?

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

The study of disease in populations is knon as:

The meaning of dysplasia is:

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

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

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

The spread of an epidemic disease across continents is:

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

What is ischemia?

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

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

What is pinocytosis?

True or false: etiology means precise cause of disease?

What does morbidity mean?