AAMI GEN 311 Intro to Pathology Comp Review Questions with 100 % correct answers |Verified

degeneration - Answer-regressive tissue change characterized by swelling of cells and chemical changes within the cells cytoplasm changes due to degeneration leads to - Answer-the appearance w/in the cell of substances normally absent or normally present in very small to undetectable amounts form of degeneration cloudy swelling - Answer-most common and least damaging type of degeneration cloudy swelling is seen in most - Answer-infections burn malnutrition shock cloudy swelling involves organs - Answer-liver kidneys cloudy swelling does not often effect the - Answer-heart with cloudy swelling the - Answer-cells appear swollen opaque cloudy fatty degeneration or steatosis - Answer-abnormal accumulation of fat or lipid w/in the cell most common organ affected by fatty degeneration or steatosis - Answer-liver alcoholism is the most common form of - Answer-etiology (cause of fatty degeneration/steatosis)other common causes for fatty degeneration or steatosis - Answer-starvation heavy metal poisoning chronic passive congestion prolonged fevers anoxia (lack of sufficient oxygen for normal function) anoxia - Answer-lack of sufficient oxygen for normal function grossly fatty liver is - Answer-yellow soft greasy with a fatty liver the microscope shows - Answer-individual cells with the normally pink cytoplasm all buy cleared out by fat giving the cells and empty appearance fatty degeneration or steatosis change is potentially - Answer-reversible but may progress to scarring and cirrhosis if the source of damage is not addressed amyloid disease - Answer-waxy starch like amyloid disease is a disease - Answer-which a waxy starch like glycoprotein accumulates in tissues and organs impairing their function amyloid is formed - Answer-in the body and deposited in various organs deposition of waxy starch like substance can be - Answer-wide spread depending on the specific disease process and involve the kidney liver spleen adrenal glands other organsthe accumulation of amyloid may - Answer-represent a primary disease (amyloidosis) infiltration - Answer-process of a substance passing into a cell and being deposited w/in the substance of a cell, tissue or organ infiltration is an accumulation - Answer-of a substance that is not normally present or is present in an excess amount infiltration is - Answer-an intracellular change pigmentation - Answer-increasse in the amount or irregular distribution or pigments (color) two types of pigmentation - Answer-exogenous pigmentation endogenous pigmentation exogenous pigmentation - Answer-tissue discoloration due to pigments that are not normally present in the body exogenous pigmentation come from - Answer-outside the body such as breathing (pneumoconiosis) example of exogenous pigmentation - Answer-carotenemia anthracosis carotenemia - Answer-yellow discoloration of the skin from eating large amounts of carotene containing food such as carrots carotenemia is often confused with - Answer-jaundice jaundice - Answer-endogenous pigmentation anthroacosis - Answer-a carbon pigmentation deposited in the lungs when inhaling coal dust over a long period of timeendogenous pigmentation - Answer-tissue discoloration due to pigment that are normally present in the body example of endogenous pigmentation - Answer-melanin freckles jaundice or icterus melanin - Answer-brownish/black pigment in the epidermis (skin) freckles - Answer-localized areas where melanin is increased jaundice or icterus - Answer-yellow discoloration in the skin eyes nails due to the retention of bilirubin (pigment portion of bile) bilrubin - Answer-pigment portion of bile calcification - Answer-accumulation of calcium salts in tissues