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1: Pathology - Answer the study and diagnosis of disease through examination of organs,
tissues, cells, and bodily fluids.
1: Etiology - Answer the study of the causes of diseases
1: risk factor - Answer Something which increases risk or susceptibility.
1: pathogenesis - Answer the development or evolution of a disease, from initial stimulus to
the ultimate expression of the manifestations
1: signs of disease - Answer manifestations of disease that are observed
1: symptoms - Answer subjective feelings of an abnormality in the body
1: syndrome - Answer etiology of a particular set of signs and symptoms has not yet been
determined
1: latent period - Answer interval between exposure of a tissue to an injurious agent and the
first appearance of signs and symptoms
1: prodromal period - Answer refers to the appearance of the first signs and symptoms
indicating the onset of a disease
1: Stage of manifest illness/acute phase - Answer disease reaches its full intensity, and signs
and symptoms attain their greatest severity
1: latent/ silent period - Answer signs and symptoms may become mild or disappear for a
time
1: acute condition - Answer relatively severe manifestations but runs a short coarse
measured in hours, days, or a few weeks
,1: chronic condition - Answer can begin in the acute phase and become prolonged when the
body's defenses are insufficient to overcome the causative agent and can last for months
1: exacerbation - Answer sudden increase in the severity of a disease
1: remission - Answer an abatement or decline in severity of the signs and symptoms of a
disease
1: convalescence - Answer stage of recovery after a disease, injury, or surgical operation
1: sequela (sequelae) - Answer subsequent pathologic condition produced by a disease
1: validity/accuracy - Answer the degree to which a measurement reflects the true value of
the object it is intended to measure
1: reliability/precision - Answer the ability of a test to give the same result in repeated
measurements
1: predictive value - Answer the extent to which a test can differentiate between the
presence or absence of a condition in an individual
1: positive predictive value - Answer estimate of the probability that disease is present if the
test is positive
1: negative predictive value - Answer an estimate of the probability that disease is absent if
the test is negative
1: Sensitivity - Answer probability that a test will be positive when applied to a person with
the condition
1: Specificity - Answer probability that a test will be negative when applied to a person who
does not have a given condition
1: influencers of physiologic parameters? - Answer Age, gender, genetic and ethnic
background, geographic area, and time of day
1: acclimatization - Answer a normal adaptive response
, 1: epidemiology - Answer study of patterns of a disease
1: endemic disease - Answer disease that is native to a local region (a town or county)
1: epidemic - Answer disease is disseminated to many people at the same time (a country)
1: pandemic - Answer disease that spreads widely across a large area (the world)
1: principal factors affecting patterns of disease in human populations? - Answer age, ethnic
group, gender, socioeconomic factors and lifestyle considerations, and geographic location
1: developmental process - Answer changes in function that occur during the early years of
life
2: homeostasis - Answer maintaining internal conditions in a stable state by keeping
parameters relatively the same/ the state of being in which all systems are in balance around a
fairly narrow ideal "set point"
2: allostasis - Answer ability to successfully adapt to changes
2: stress - Answer physical, chemical, or emotional factor that produces tension in the body
or mind
2: stressor - Answer anything that throws the body out of allostatic balance
2: general adaptation syndrome (GAS) - Answer Alarm reaction, Stage of existence, Stage of
exhaustion
2: alarm - Answer Fight or Flight Response
- Answer
During a dermatology rotation, a group of medical students are provided with a case study of a
burn patient who sustained significant damage to the skin. The supervising dermatologist
emphasized the multiple crucial functions of the skin and how each might be compromised due
to the injury. The students were then challenged to identify a function that is NOT primarily
associated with the skin, based on their learning. Which of the following functions is NOT a
primary role of the skin? - Answer Vitamin B production