Rasmussen Pathophysiology UPDATED Exam Questions And CORRECT Answers

Define Pathophysiology The study of the changes of normal mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions, either caused by disease or resulting from an abnormal syndrome. What does the study of pathophysiology include? Contains etiology, which is the reason for the phenomena, pathogenesis, which is the development of a disease, clinical manifestations, which is the manifestation of the disease in signs, symptoms, and treatment. The difference between signs and symptoms/ objective versus subjective data. Signs are objective data, it is physical data we can observe with our senses. Symptoms are subjective data, which is the information from the patient's POV. Epidemology The branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health