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This study guide supports preparation for Pathophysiology 370 Midterm with a focused review of core concepts including disease mechanisms, cellular injury, inflammation, immune response, and major system-level pathophysiology. It is designed to help nursing and healthcare students strengthen understanding and improve exam performance.

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PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 370 MIDTERM
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1. The stage during which the patient functions normally, Subclinical
although the disease processes are well established is
referred to as:

2. True or False: When the Cause is unknown, a condition True
is said to be idiopathic

3. Cancer grading is based on Cell Differentiation

4. A patient has been exposed to meningococcal menin- Latent Stage
gitis but is not yet demonstrating signs of this disease.
This stage of illness is called the ________

5. Breast cancer in women who have the breast cancer occurs at an earlier age
gene

6. Metaplasia is: the replacement of one dif-
ferentiated cell type with
another

7. Which is not normally secreted in response to stress? Insulin

8. After suffering a heart attack, a middle-aged man is Tertiary Prevention
counseled to take a cholesterol-lowering medication.
This is an example of:

9. Extreme cold injures cells by all the following except decreased blood viscosity

10. The effect of excessive cortisol production include immune supression

11. A patient with metastatic lung cancer wants to know Lung cancer has about a
her chances for surival. Which response is correct? 15% survival rate

12. Liquefactive

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, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 370 MIDTERM
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Necrotic death of brain tissue usually produces _____
necrosis.

13. Persistence of the alarm stage will ultimately result in Permanent damage and
death

14. Of the statements below, the accurate statement re- Deficient cellular uptake by
garding nutrition and cellular health is one cell type may con-
tribute to excess nutrient
delivery to other cell types.

15. Coagulative necrosis is caused by interrupted blood supply

16. The cellular change that is considered preneoplastic is Dysplasia

17. The cellular response indicative of injury because of intracellular accumula-
faulty metabolism is: tions

18. Many of the responses to stress are attributed to ac- norepinephrine
tivation of the sympathetic nervous system and are
mediated by

19. Indicators that an individual is experiencing high pupil constriction
stress include all of the following except:

20. After bronchoscopy and histologic examination of a malignant
suspected tumor, your patient is diagnosed with pri-
mary bronchial carcinoma. Thus, the tumor is:

21. The most common tumor-supressor gene defect iden- P53
tified in cancer cells is:

22. False


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