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What are some ways cells can adapt? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Size
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(Atrophy and Hypertrophy)
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-Form (Metaplasia)
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-Number (Hyperplasia)
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What are some ways Atrophy can occur? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1)
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Disuse
2)Denervation
3)Inadequate Nutrition |




4)Ischemia or lack of blood flow | | | | |




What are two ways hypertrophy can occur? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1)
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Increased Workload |




2) Disease ( Compensatory or Pathologic )
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What is an example of Pathological Hypertrophy? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Increased size of heart due to overworking or HTN | | | | | | | |

,What is an example of compensatory Hypertrophy? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Kidney enlargement due to donating its partner organ
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What is Hyperplasia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Increased number of cells
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in an organ or tissue
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What are two types of Physiologic Hyperplasia? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-1) Hormonal |




2) Compensatory
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What is an example of Compensatory Hyperplasia? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Regeneration of the liver after a partial hepatectomy | | | | | | |




What is an example of Physiologic Hyperplasia? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Uterine enlargement from pregnancy from estrogen | | | | | |



stimulation


What is an example of Non-Physiological Hyperplasia? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Skin warts due to certain viruses such as the
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papillomaviruses


What is Metaplasia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A reversible change in
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which one adult cell type is replaced by another cell type
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, What usually causes Metaplasia to occur? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-In
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response to chronic irritation and inflammation in which cells that are
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better able to survive will substitute a more fragile cell type
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What is an example of Metaplasia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Adaptive
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substitution of stratified squamous epithelial cells for the ciliated
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columnar epithelium in the large airways of smokers
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What is Dysplasia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Deranged cell growth of a
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specific tissue that results in varying sizes,shapes, and organization. This
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is also a precursor to cancer.
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What is an example of Dysplasia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Usually
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found in the meta plastic squamous epithelium of the respiratory tract
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and uterine cervix.
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Is Dysplasia reversible? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Dysplasia is abnormal
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but it is adaptive in that it is potentially reversible once the irritating
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cause has been removed
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What is intracellular Accumulation? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The
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buildup of substances that cells cannot immediately use or eliminate
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