WGU D236 Pathophysiology Final Exam
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1. Melanoma - ANSWER ✓ The most serious form of
skin cancer, caucasian males at highest risk, usually
black or brown lesion
1. consequences when integumentary system is disrupted -
ANSWER ✓ impaired immunity
2. types of burns - ANSWER ✓ Superficial (1st degree) -
red/painful
Partial-thickness (2nd degree) -wet/pink/painful
Full-thickness (3rd degree) -white/swollen/no pain
,3. Viltigo - ANSWER ✓ localized loss of skin
pigmentation characterized by milk-white patches
4. ischemic CVA vs hemorrhagic CVA - ANSWER ✓
ischemic - clot vs hemorrhagic - blood
5. subdural hematoma - ANSWER ✓ collection of blood
under the dura mater
6. Alzheimer's disease vs parkinson's disease - ANSWER
✓ Alz - affects language and memory
Park - affects all executive functioning
7. Huntington's disease - ANSWER ✓ Genetic disorder
that causes progressive deterioration of brain cells.
caused by a dominant allele. symptoms do not appear
until about the age of 30. involves involuntary muscle
movement
,8. Sclerosis - ANSWER ✓ abnormal condition of
hardening
9. disorders that cause vision loss - ANSWER ✓
glaucoma - loss of pheripheral vision, cataracts - cloudy
vision, retinal detachment - floaters, flashes, curtain
vision
10. kyphosis - ANSWER ✓ excessive outward curvature
of the spine, causing hunching of the back.
11. disorders that cause hearing loss - ANSWER ✓
Meniere's disease - changes in fluid in tube of inner ear
(imbalance and vertigo), Otitis media - middle ear
infection
12. Predisposing factors of ischemic stroke - ANSWER
✓ a fib, carotid stenosis, cerebral arteriosclerosis
, 13. rheumatoid arthritis - ANSWER ✓ A chronic
systemic disease characterized by inflammation of the
joints, stiffness, pain, and swelling that results in
crippling deformities. Causes elevated WBC counts.
14. cerebral contusion - ANSWER ✓ the bruising of
brain tissue as the result of a head injury that causes the
brain to bounce against the rigid bone of the skull;
symptoms: ringing in ears, severe headache, n/v.
15. TIA vs CVA - ANSWER ✓ TIA =
-result when a cerebral artery is temp blocked and
decreases blood flow to brain
Stroke= artery completely blocked
leading to death of brain and permanent loss of certain
functions
16. multiple sclerosis - ANSWER ✓ A chronic,
irreversible disease of the central nervous system
marked by damage to the myelin sheath. Plaques occur
in the brain and spinal cord causing tremor, weakness,
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1. Melanoma - ANSWER ✓ The most serious form of
skin cancer, caucasian males at highest risk, usually
black or brown lesion
1. consequences when integumentary system is disrupted -
ANSWER ✓ impaired immunity
2. types of burns - ANSWER ✓ Superficial (1st degree) -
red/painful
Partial-thickness (2nd degree) -wet/pink/painful
Full-thickness (3rd degree) -white/swollen/no pain
,3. Viltigo - ANSWER ✓ localized loss of skin
pigmentation characterized by milk-white patches
4. ischemic CVA vs hemorrhagic CVA - ANSWER ✓
ischemic - clot vs hemorrhagic - blood
5. subdural hematoma - ANSWER ✓ collection of blood
under the dura mater
6. Alzheimer's disease vs parkinson's disease - ANSWER
✓ Alz - affects language and memory
Park - affects all executive functioning
7. Huntington's disease - ANSWER ✓ Genetic disorder
that causes progressive deterioration of brain cells.
caused by a dominant allele. symptoms do not appear
until about the age of 30. involves involuntary muscle
movement
,8. Sclerosis - ANSWER ✓ abnormal condition of
hardening
9. disorders that cause vision loss - ANSWER ✓
glaucoma - loss of pheripheral vision, cataracts - cloudy
vision, retinal detachment - floaters, flashes, curtain
vision
10. kyphosis - ANSWER ✓ excessive outward curvature
of the spine, causing hunching of the back.
11. disorders that cause hearing loss - ANSWER ✓
Meniere's disease - changes in fluid in tube of inner ear
(imbalance and vertigo), Otitis media - middle ear
infection
12. Predisposing factors of ischemic stroke - ANSWER
✓ a fib, carotid stenosis, cerebral arteriosclerosis
, 13. rheumatoid arthritis - ANSWER ✓ A chronic
systemic disease characterized by inflammation of the
joints, stiffness, pain, and swelling that results in
crippling deformities. Causes elevated WBC counts.
14. cerebral contusion - ANSWER ✓ the bruising of
brain tissue as the result of a head injury that causes the
brain to bounce against the rigid bone of the skull;
symptoms: ringing in ears, severe headache, n/v.
15. TIA vs CVA - ANSWER ✓ TIA =
-result when a cerebral artery is temp blocked and
decreases blood flow to brain
Stroke= artery completely blocked
leading to death of brain and permanent loss of certain
functions
16. multiple sclerosis - ANSWER ✓ A chronic,
irreversible disease of the central nervous system
marked by damage to the myelin sheath. Plaques occur
in the brain and spinal cord causing tremor, weakness,
