Grade 2026\2027
What is the term used to describe a relative balance in body functions?
- correct answer Homeostasis
If the term physiology refers to a branch of biology that deals with the function and activities of life or
living matter, i.e. organs, tissue, or cells, what is pathophysiology?
- correct answer changes that result for disease
Give an example of the pathophysiology of an organ, tissue or cell.
- correct answer organ: Ischemia
tissue: Gangrene
cell: dysplasia
What are the three levels of prevention? Give examples of each
- correct answer Primary: vaccines
Secondary: screenings
Tertiary: rehabilitation
What are some causes of cellular damage
- correct answer genetics, nutritional, infectious, environmental
Reduced tissue size or mass
- correct answer Atrophy
increased tissue size or mass
- correct answer hypertrophy