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NURS 3366- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY TEST 2 UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. Innate (natural) resistance
Answer:
defense mechanisms we are born with.

Question:
2. 1st line of resistance
Answer:
body's physical barriers; immediate and non-specific

Question:
3. 2nd line of resistance
Answer:
inflammation; immediate and non-specific

Question:
4. Acquired (adaptive) immunity
Answer:
3RD line of defense; delayed and specific; able to resist certain diseases or conditions due to immunocyte
involvement

Question:
5. First line of defense
Answer:
skin and mucous membranes

Question:
6. Stressors that can breach skin defense
Answer:
lacerations, abrasions, punctures

Question:
7. Eye's defense
Answer:
tears, eyelashes

Question:
8. sressors that can breach eye's defense
Answer:
dry eye syndrome, sjogren's syndrome

, Question:
9. Sjogren's syndrome
Answer:
autoimmune disease that dries up all lubricating fluids in the body

Question:
10. respiratory system defenses
Answer:
mucus and hair in nose; cilia of cells in bronchi; cough reflex

Question:
11. GI system defenses
Answer:
saliva, stomach acid, gag reflex/vomiting, bowels, defecation

Question:
12. Genitourinary system defenses
Answer:
urine flow, vaginal secretions

Question:
13. Inflammation
Answer:
second line of defense; state on Innate defense; immediate and nonspecific

Question:
14. S/S of inflammation
Answer:
swelling, heat, redness and pain

Question:
15. Inflammation Example 1
Answer:
first line of defense (skin) is breached with a laceration -->clot formation to stop bleeding-->scab formed
to seal breach

Question:
16. Inflammation Example 2
Answer:
meningitis microbe is inhaled (breaches 1st line of defense mucous
membranes)-->inflammation-->inflammation can't heal on it's own and calls in 3rd line of defense
(immunocyte response)-->acquired immunity

Question:
17. immunocyte response

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