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What organs are affected by coagulative necrosis that results from
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b hypoxia caused by severe ischemia or caused by chemical injury?
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A. Lungs and pulmonary vessels b b b
B. Brain and spinal cord b b b
C. Kidneys and heart b b
D. Muscles and bones - ..........ANSWER. ........ C. Kidneys and heart
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What type of necrosis results from ischemia of neurons and glial
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b cells?
A. Coagulative necrosis b
B. Liquefactive necrosis b
C. Caseousnecrosis b
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D. Gangrene necrosis - ..........ANSWER. ....... B. Liquefactive
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necrosis
What type of necrosis is often associated with pulmonary tuberculosis?
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A. Bacteriologic necrosis b
B. Caseous necrosis b
C. Liquefactive necrosis b
D. Gangrenous necrosis - ..........ANSWER. ....... B. Caseous necrosis
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What type of necrosis is associated with wet gangrene?
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A. Coagulative necrosis b
B. Liquefactive necrosis b
C. Caseousnecrosis b
D. Gangrene necrosis - ..........ANSWER. ....... B. Liquefactive
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necrosis
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What is the single most common cause of cellular injury?
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A. Hypoxic injury b
B. Chemical injury b
C. Infectious injury b
D. Genetic injury - ..........ANSWER. ....... A. Hypoxic injury
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Which is a description of the characteristics of apoptosis?
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A. A programmed cell death of scattered, single cells
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B. Characterized by swelling of the nucleus and cytoplasm b b b b b b b
C. Has unpredictable patterns of cell death
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D. Results in benign malignancies - ..........ANSWER. ......... A. A
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programmed cell death of scattered, single cells b b b b b b
All the following are characteristics of apoptosis as compared to necrosis
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B. Functions to remove cells so new cells can replace them b b b b b b b b b
C. Intracellular enzymes are released into the circulation b b b b b b
D. Not associatedwith surrounding inflammatory reaction -
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..........ANSWER. ..... C. Intracellular enzymes are released into the b b b b b b
circulation
A nurse is discussing preinvasive epithelial tumors of glandular or
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b squamous cell origin. What is the nurse describing? b b b b b b b
A. Tumor in differentiation b b
B. Dysplastic
C. Cancer in situ b b
D. Cancer beyond (meta) situ - ..........ANSWER. ......... C. Cancer in
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A patient has a tissue growth that was diagnosed as cancer. Which of
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b the following terms best describes this growth?
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A. Neoplasm