NURS 5315 EXAM 1 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM | CORRECTLY ANSWERED AND GRADED A+ | LATEST 2024/2025

NURS 5315 EXAM 1 ADVANCED
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM | CORRECTLY
ANSWERED AND GRADED A+ | LATEST
2024/2025


What is the process by which excitable cells transmit information to one
another? - Correct Answer - Action Potential



What types of cells use the action potential?

- Correct Answer - Nerve and Muscle



What potassium imbalance hypo polarizes the cell?

- Correct Answer - Hyperkalemia



Does hypopolarization cause increased excitability of cells or decreased
excitability of cells? - Correct Answer - Increased



Which potassium imbalance causes hypo polarization of the cell?

- Correct Answer - Hyperkalemia

,In which calcium imbalance is the cell more excitable?

- Correct Answer - Hypocalcemia



Which calcium imbalance leads to circumoral paresthesia’s?

- Correct Answer - Hypocalcemia



In which calcium imbalance do lethargy, confusion, and hyporeflexia occur?
- Correct Answer - Hypercalcemia



Cardiomegaly is a pathologic expression of what disease?

- Correct Answer - Hypertrophy



Which adaptation pattern causes the endometrial lining to grow r/t excess
estrogen? - Correct Answer - Hyperplasia



Metaplasia of cells in esophagus; due to GERD; squamous cells changed
to columnar cells - Correct Answer - Barrett's esophagus



The thymus gland shrinking during childhood is a _______________
example of _________________.

- Correct Answer - Physiologic; Atrophy

, Liver regeneration is a _______________ example of
_________________.

- Correct Answer - Physiologic; Hyperplasia



What is the most common cause of hypoxic injury?

- Correct Answer - Ishcemia



Loss of hemoglobin leads to ____________ injury.

- Correct Answer - Hypoxic



Reperfusion injury leads to ___________ overload.

- Correct Answer - Calcium



Tissue transplantation may cause _______________ injury.

- Correct Answer - Reperfusion



Molecules with an unpaired electron in the outer shell

- Correct Answer - Free radicals