WGU PATHOPHYSIOLOGY D236 EXAMS SCRIPT 2026-
2027 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔communiuted fracture - ✔✔splintered into many pieces
✔✔Three types of skin cancer - ✔✔1. Basal cell carcinoma
2. Squamous cell carcinoma
3. Melanoma
✔✔basal cell carcinoma - ✔✔Most common and least severe type of skin cancer; often
characterized by light or pearly nodules. Rarely metastasize, most common on face due
to sun exposure
✔✔squamous cell carcinoma - ✔✔Type of skin cancer more serious than basal cell
carcinoma; often characterized by scaly red crusted papules or firm nodules.
✔✔Melanoma - ✔✔The most serious form of skin cancer, caucasian males at highest
risk, usually black or brown lesion
✔✔consequences when integumentary system is disrupted - ✔✔impaired immunity
✔✔types of burns - ✔✔Superficial (1st degree) - red/painful
Partial-thickness (2nd degree) -wet/pink/painful
Full-thickness (3rd degree) -white/swollen/no pain
✔✔Viltigo - ✔✔localized loss of skin pigmentation characterized by milk-white patches
✔✔ischemic CVA vs hemorrhagic CVA - ✔✔ischemic - clot vs hemorrhagic - blood
✔✔subdural hematoma - ✔✔collection of blood under the dura mater
✔✔Alzheimer's disease vs parkinson's disease - ✔✔Alz - affects language and memory
Park - affects all executive functioning
✔✔Huntington's disease - ✔✔Genetic disorder that causes progressive deterioration of
brain cells. caused by a dominant allele. symptoms do not appear until about the age of
30. involves involuntary muscle movement
✔✔Sclerosis - ✔✔abnormal condition of hardening
✔✔disorders that cause vision loss - ✔✔glaucoma - loss of pheripheral vision, cataracts
- cloudy vision, retinal detachment - floaters, flashes, curtain vision
, ✔✔kyphosis - ✔✔excessive outward curvature of the spine, causing hunching of the
back.
✔✔disorders that cause hearing loss - ✔✔Meniere's disease - changes in fluid in tube
of inner ear (imbalance and vertigo), Otitis media - middle ear infection
✔✔Predisposing factors of ischemic stroke - ✔✔a fib, carotid stenosis, cerebral
arteriosclerosis
✔✔rheumatoid arthritis - ✔✔A chronic systemic disease characterized by inflammation
of the joints, stiffness, pain, and swelling that results in crippling deformities. Causes
elevated WBC counts.
✔✔cerebral contusion - ✔✔the bruising of brain tissue as the result of a head injury that
causes the brain to bounce against the rigid bone of the skull; symptoms: ringing in
ears, severe headache, n/v.
✔✔TIA vs CVA - ✔✔TIA =
-result when a cerebral artery is temp blocked and decreases blood flow to brain
Stroke= artery completely blocked
leading to death of brain and permanent loss of certain functions
✔✔multiple sclerosis - ✔✔A chronic, irreversible disease of the central nervous system
marked by damage to the myelin sheath. Plaques occur in the brain and spinal cord
causing tremor, weakness, incoordination, paresthesia, and disturbances in vision and
speech
✔✔aneurysm - ✔✔ballooning of a weakened portion of an arterial wall
✔✔thrombus vs embolus - ✔✔Thrombus = clot in arteries
embolus = dislodged traveling clot in arteries, blocks blood flow
✔✔Artherosclerosis - ✔✔Hardening and narrowing of the arteries due to buildup of
cholesterol plaques
1.endothelial injury
2.foam cell formation
3.fatty streak formation
✔✔angina pectoris - ✔✔chest pain, which may radiate to the left arm and jaw, that
occurs when there is an insufficient supply of blood to the heart muscle
✔✔myocardial infarction - ✔✔the occlusion of one or more coronary arteries caused by
plaque buildup (heart attack)
2027 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔communiuted fracture - ✔✔splintered into many pieces
✔✔Three types of skin cancer - ✔✔1. Basal cell carcinoma
2. Squamous cell carcinoma
3. Melanoma
✔✔basal cell carcinoma - ✔✔Most common and least severe type of skin cancer; often
characterized by light or pearly nodules. Rarely metastasize, most common on face due
to sun exposure
✔✔squamous cell carcinoma - ✔✔Type of skin cancer more serious than basal cell
carcinoma; often characterized by scaly red crusted papules or firm nodules.
✔✔Melanoma - ✔✔The most serious form of skin cancer, caucasian males at highest
risk, usually black or brown lesion
✔✔consequences when integumentary system is disrupted - ✔✔impaired immunity
✔✔types of burns - ✔✔Superficial (1st degree) - red/painful
Partial-thickness (2nd degree) -wet/pink/painful
Full-thickness (3rd degree) -white/swollen/no pain
✔✔Viltigo - ✔✔localized loss of skin pigmentation characterized by milk-white patches
✔✔ischemic CVA vs hemorrhagic CVA - ✔✔ischemic - clot vs hemorrhagic - blood
✔✔subdural hematoma - ✔✔collection of blood under the dura mater
✔✔Alzheimer's disease vs parkinson's disease - ✔✔Alz - affects language and memory
Park - affects all executive functioning
✔✔Huntington's disease - ✔✔Genetic disorder that causes progressive deterioration of
brain cells. caused by a dominant allele. symptoms do not appear until about the age of
30. involves involuntary muscle movement
✔✔Sclerosis - ✔✔abnormal condition of hardening
✔✔disorders that cause vision loss - ✔✔glaucoma - loss of pheripheral vision, cataracts
- cloudy vision, retinal detachment - floaters, flashes, curtain vision
, ✔✔kyphosis - ✔✔excessive outward curvature of the spine, causing hunching of the
back.
✔✔disorders that cause hearing loss - ✔✔Meniere's disease - changes in fluid in tube
of inner ear (imbalance and vertigo), Otitis media - middle ear infection
✔✔Predisposing factors of ischemic stroke - ✔✔a fib, carotid stenosis, cerebral
arteriosclerosis
✔✔rheumatoid arthritis - ✔✔A chronic systemic disease characterized by inflammation
of the joints, stiffness, pain, and swelling that results in crippling deformities. Causes
elevated WBC counts.
✔✔cerebral contusion - ✔✔the bruising of brain tissue as the result of a head injury that
causes the brain to bounce against the rigid bone of the skull; symptoms: ringing in
ears, severe headache, n/v.
✔✔TIA vs CVA - ✔✔TIA =
-result when a cerebral artery is temp blocked and decreases blood flow to brain
Stroke= artery completely blocked
leading to death of brain and permanent loss of certain functions
✔✔multiple sclerosis - ✔✔A chronic, irreversible disease of the central nervous system
marked by damage to the myelin sheath. Plaques occur in the brain and spinal cord
causing tremor, weakness, incoordination, paresthesia, and disturbances in vision and
speech
✔✔aneurysm - ✔✔ballooning of a weakened portion of an arterial wall
✔✔thrombus vs embolus - ✔✔Thrombus = clot in arteries
embolus = dislodged traveling clot in arteries, blocks blood flow
✔✔Artherosclerosis - ✔✔Hardening and narrowing of the arteries due to buildup of
cholesterol plaques
1.endothelial injury
2.foam cell formation
3.fatty streak formation
✔✔angina pectoris - ✔✔chest pain, which may radiate to the left arm and jaw, that
occurs when there is an insufficient supply of blood to the heart muscle
✔✔myocardial infarction - ✔✔the occlusion of one or more coronary arteries caused by
plaque buildup (heart attack)
