WGU Pathophysiology Exam Question and Answers
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Which types of tissue most often develop tumors? - correct answer
✅Epithelial and connective tissues
What are the following benign tumors? - correct answer ✅Papilloma - A
wart
Lipoma - begins in the fatty tissue
Myoma - Fibroid
Chondroma - Tumor of cartilage cells
What are sarcomas? - correct answer ✅They are tumors that can be found
anywhere and begin in connective tissue
What are the early signs of lymphoma - correct answer ✅Fevers and night
sweats
What is radiation therapy - correct answer ✅When seeds are implanted
into a malignant prostate and then irradiated, this is called radiation therapy.
This is used to reduce damage to healthy tissue
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Name what is a vesicle, pustule, macule, papule, excoriation - correct answer
✅Vesicle - Small fluid filled elevation of skin (e.g. blister)
Pustule - (elevation of the skin containing white blood cells and cell debris)
Macule - A spot that is not raised or depressed. (such as a freckle)
Papule - A firm raised area of the skin (such as a pimple)
Excoriation (scratch in the skin)
Define the following:
Laceration
Fissure
Ulcer
Superficial burn
Superficial partial thickness burn - correct answer ✅Laceration - Rough
jagged wound
Fissue - Crack in the skin
Ulcer - Store with disintegration and death of affected tissue
Superficial burn involves the epidermal layer of the skin
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Superficial partial thickness burn appears with blisters and pain at the burn
site
What are shingles and how are they treated - correct answer ✅Shingles are
painful vesicular lesions caused by varicella. The normal treatment is
antiviral medications and costicosteroids to decrease pain.
What is Tissue destruction involving only the epidermal layer of the skin -
correct answer ✅superficial.
What are two signs of allergic skin reactions - correct answer ✅Pruritus
(itching) and urticarial (hives)
What are three autoimmune diseases involving the skin? - correct answer
✅Pemphigus, scleroderma and lupus erythematosus are all autoimmuse
diseases involving the skin.
Damage to what can disturb equilibrium? - correct answer ✅Semicircular
canals in the ear
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Which types of tissue most often develop tumors? - correct answer
✅Epithelial and connective tissues
What are the following benign tumors? - correct answer ✅Papilloma - A
wart
Lipoma - begins in the fatty tissue
Myoma - Fibroid
Chondroma - Tumor of cartilage cells
What are sarcomas? - correct answer ✅They are tumors that can be found
anywhere and begin in connective tissue
What are the early signs of lymphoma - correct answer ✅Fevers and night
sweats
What is radiation therapy - correct answer ✅When seeds are implanted
into a malignant prostate and then irradiated, this is called radiation therapy.
This is used to reduce damage to healthy tissue
,WGU Pathophysiology Exam Question and Answers
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Name what is a vesicle, pustule, macule, papule, excoriation - correct answer
✅Vesicle - Small fluid filled elevation of skin (e.g. blister)
Pustule - (elevation of the skin containing white blood cells and cell debris)
Macule - A spot that is not raised or depressed. (such as a freckle)
Papule - A firm raised area of the skin (such as a pimple)
Excoriation (scratch in the skin)
Define the following:
Laceration
Fissure
Ulcer
Superficial burn
Superficial partial thickness burn - correct answer ✅Laceration - Rough
jagged wound
Fissue - Crack in the skin
Ulcer - Store with disintegration and death of affected tissue
Superficial burn involves the epidermal layer of the skin
, WGU Pathophysiology Exam Question and Answers
Verified Graded A+ Latest.
Superficial partial thickness burn appears with blisters and pain at the burn
site
What are shingles and how are they treated - correct answer ✅Shingles are
painful vesicular lesions caused by varicella. The normal treatment is
antiviral medications and costicosteroids to decrease pain.
What is Tissue destruction involving only the epidermal layer of the skin -
correct answer ✅superficial.
What are two signs of allergic skin reactions - correct answer ✅Pruritus
(itching) and urticarial (hives)
What are three autoimmune diseases involving the skin? - correct answer
✅Pemphigus, scleroderma and lupus erythematosus are all autoimmuse
diseases involving the skin.
Damage to what can disturb equilibrium? - correct answer ✅Semicircular
canals in the ear
