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West Coast University Pathophysiology
Week 1: Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch.4, Ch.7. Exam
Questions And Answers
Etiology - Answers✔The known cause for the disease.
The study of causes/reasons for phenomena.
Identify's causal factors acting in concert that provoke a particular disease or injury.
Pathophysiology - Answers✔The study of disease process.
Idiopathic - Answers✔The cause of the disease is unknown
Iatrogenic - Answers✔Causes results from unintended or unwanted medical treatment.
Example: Mistakes made in surgery, or dispensing the wrong medication.
Risk factor - Answers✔Is the likelihood of the disease.
Pathogenesis - Answers✔Development or evolution of disease, from initial stimulus to ultimate
expression of manifestation of disease.
Symptoms - Answers✔Subjective feeling of abnormality in the body.
Signs - Answers✔Objective or observed manifestation of disease, can be measured.
Syndrome - Answers✔A set of signs and symptoms not yet determined to delineate a disease.
Modifiable risk factors - Answers✔Hygiene
Diet
Exercise
Smoking
Drinking
Preexisting condition (if condition can be managed by diet, exercise, etc.)
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Non-modifiable risk factors - Answers✔Family history
Age
Gender
Race/ethnicity
SOAP note - Answers✔The SOAP note (an acronym for subjective, objective, assessment, and
plan) is a method of documentation employed by health care providers to write out notes in a
patient's chart, along with other common formats, such as the admission note.
Latent period - Answers✔Time between exposure of tissue to injurious agent and first
appearance of symptoms.
Prodromal period - Answers✔Time during which first signs and/or symptoms appear or onset of
disease occurs.
Latent period - Answers✔Refers to a period during an illness when signs/symptoms temporarily
become mild or silent.
Subclinical stage - Answers✔Patient functions normally; disease processes are well established.
Acuteclinical state - Answers✔Short-lived, may have severe manifestation.
Chronic clinical course - Answers✔May last months to years, sometimes following an acute
course.
Exacerbation - Answers✔Increase in severity of signs or symptoms.
Remission - Answers✔Decrease in severity, signs, or symptoms; may indicate disease is cured.
Convalescense - Answers✔Stage of recovery after disease, injury, or surgical procedure.
Sequelae - Answers✔Subsequent pathologic condition resulting from an acute illness.
Ex: An example of sequelae is poor blood flow to the feet as a result of having diabetes.
Cultural considerations - Answers✔Each culture defines health and illness in a manner that
reflects their experience.
Age and biological factors linked - Answers✔a normal value for a person at one age may not be
normal for a person at another age.
Ex: Wrinkles (loss of collagen) in an elderly woman is normal. Wrinkles in a 10 year old girl is not
normal.
Gender differences - Answers✔Relevant in both health and disease.
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West Coast University Pathophysiology
Week 1: Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch.4, Ch.7. Exam
Questions And Answers
Etiology - Answers✔The known cause for the disease.
The study of causes/reasons for phenomena.
Identify's causal factors acting in concert that provoke a particular disease or injury.
Pathophysiology - Answers✔The study of disease process.
Idiopathic - Answers✔The cause of the disease is unknown
Iatrogenic - Answers✔Causes results from unintended or unwanted medical treatment.
Example: Mistakes made in surgery, or dispensing the wrong medication.
Risk factor - Answers✔Is the likelihood of the disease.
Pathogenesis - Answers✔Development or evolution of disease, from initial stimulus to ultimate
expression of manifestation of disease.
Symptoms - Answers✔Subjective feeling of abnormality in the body.
Signs - Answers✔Objective or observed manifestation of disease, can be measured.
Syndrome - Answers✔A set of signs and symptoms not yet determined to delineate a disease.
Modifiable risk factors - Answers✔Hygiene
Diet
Exercise
Smoking
Drinking
Preexisting condition (if condition can be managed by diet, exercise, etc.)
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Non-modifiable risk factors - Answers✔Family history
Age
Gender
Race/ethnicity
SOAP note - Answers✔The SOAP note (an acronym for subjective, objective, assessment, and
plan) is a method of documentation employed by health care providers to write out notes in a
patient's chart, along with other common formats, such as the admission note.
Latent period - Answers✔Time between exposure of tissue to injurious agent and first
appearance of symptoms.
Prodromal period - Answers✔Time during which first signs and/or symptoms appear or onset of
disease occurs.
Latent period - Answers✔Refers to a period during an illness when signs/symptoms temporarily
become mild or silent.
Subclinical stage - Answers✔Patient functions normally; disease processes are well established.
Acuteclinical state - Answers✔Short-lived, may have severe manifestation.
Chronic clinical course - Answers✔May last months to years, sometimes following an acute
course.
Exacerbation - Answers✔Increase in severity of signs or symptoms.
Remission - Answers✔Decrease in severity, signs, or symptoms; may indicate disease is cured.
Convalescense - Answers✔Stage of recovery after disease, injury, or surgical procedure.
Sequelae - Answers✔Subsequent pathologic condition resulting from an acute illness.
Ex: An example of sequelae is poor blood flow to the feet as a result of having diabetes.
Cultural considerations - Answers✔Each culture defines health and illness in a manner that
reflects their experience.
Age and biological factors linked - Answers✔a normal value for a person at one age may not be
normal for a person at another age.
Ex: Wrinkles (loss of collagen) in an elderly woman is normal. Wrinkles in a 10 year old girl is not
normal.
Gender differences - Answers✔Relevant in both health and disease.
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