Equine Health and Disease Quiz 1/28 Complete Questions & Answers!!

Pathology -ANSWER the study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them disease -ANSWER A structural or functional change in the body that is harmful to the organism Where does a disease occur? -ANSWER When the cellular environment changes to such a degree that the tissues are no longer able to perform their function optimally Ethiology -ANSWER study of the cause of disease symptom -ANSWER Manifestations of disease (allopathic medicine) Structural disease -ANSWER organ disease- lesions can be visually identified. Genetic disease -with molecular medicine/ technology we can look at proteins and single genes Degenerative/ inflammatory disease (very common in horses) Hyperplastic/ neoplastic disease Trauma- very common in the horse Functional Disease -ANSWER In the beginning these diseases do not show visible lesions The basic change away from homeostasis e.x. Cushings in an old horse