NYU Pathophysiology Week 1
Questions and Correct Verified
Answers 2025 Set.
True or False: Breast cancer screening programs are an example of a primary level of prevention
- Answer False, it's a secondary level of prevention
True or False: Skin is categorized as a type of connective tissue - Answer True, Skin's 1st layer is
epithelial and 2nd + 3rd are connective
True or False: Muscle Hypertrophy involves an increase in the number of cells - Answer False,
it's an increase in size of cells
True or False: Apoptotic cell death can be characterized as "cell suicide" - Answer True, it's
programmed cell death with no inflammation
True or False: Primary prevention of disease is aimed at keeping the diseases from occurring by
identifying and removing risk factors - Answer True
True or False: Cell death is an organ or tissue that is still part of a living person is known as
necrosis - Answer True
Metaplasia is characterized by deranged cell growth that results in variations in size and shape -
Answer False, it is the replacement of a mature cell type by another mature cell type. (Not
deranged)
A member of the health care team is researching the etiology and pathogenesis of a number of
clients who are under his care in a hospital contect. Which of the following aspects of client
situations best characterizes pathogenesis rather than etiology? - Answer A client who has
increasing serum ammonia levels due to liver cirrhosis
A nurse is teaching a client with a recent diagnosis of diabetes about the roles that glucose and
insulin play in the disease pathology and the fact that glucose must enter the body cell in order
to provide energy for the client. The nurse knows that which of the following processes allow
glucose to enter body cells? - Answer Facilitated Diffusion
Questions and Correct Verified
Answers 2025 Set.
True or False: Breast cancer screening programs are an example of a primary level of prevention
- Answer False, it's a secondary level of prevention
True or False: Skin is categorized as a type of connective tissue - Answer True, Skin's 1st layer is
epithelial and 2nd + 3rd are connective
True or False: Muscle Hypertrophy involves an increase in the number of cells - Answer False,
it's an increase in size of cells
True or False: Apoptotic cell death can be characterized as "cell suicide" - Answer True, it's
programmed cell death with no inflammation
True or False: Primary prevention of disease is aimed at keeping the diseases from occurring by
identifying and removing risk factors - Answer True
True or False: Cell death is an organ or tissue that is still part of a living person is known as
necrosis - Answer True
Metaplasia is characterized by deranged cell growth that results in variations in size and shape -
Answer False, it is the replacement of a mature cell type by another mature cell type. (Not
deranged)
A member of the health care team is researching the etiology and pathogenesis of a number of
clients who are under his care in a hospital contect. Which of the following aspects of client
situations best characterizes pathogenesis rather than etiology? - Answer A client who has
increasing serum ammonia levels due to liver cirrhosis
A nurse is teaching a client with a recent diagnosis of diabetes about the roles that glucose and
insulin play in the disease pathology and the fact that glucose must enter the body cell in order
to provide energy for the client. The nurse knows that which of the following processes allow
glucose to enter body cells? - Answer Facilitated Diffusion
