INTRODUCTION TO PATHOLOGY EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
granulation tissue - Answer-What is the combination of young developing capillaries and
actively proliferating fibroblasts producing connective tissue fibers?
hematogenous spread - Answer-What is traveling by the means of the bloodstream
called?
hematoma - Answer-What is a hemorrhage trapped in body tissues?
hemorrhage - Answer-What is the rupture of a blood vessel?
hereditary diseases - Answer-What are diseases transmitted to offspring through
genes?
hyperplasia - Answer-What is an abnormal increase in the number of cells composing a
tissue or organ?
iatrogenic - Answer-What is a disease that results from the activity of diagnosis or
treatment by medical personnel
idiopathic - Answer-What is having unknown cause for an underlying disease?
immune - Answer-What is the reaction of the body that provides a powerful defense
against invading organisms?
infarct - Answer-What is a localized area of ischemic necrosis within a tissue or organ
produced by occlusion of either its arterial supply or its venous drainage?
inflammation - Answer-What is the initial response of body tissue to local injury?
ischemia - Answer-What is a lack of blood supply in an organ or tissue?
lymphatic spread - Answer-What is the major metastatic rout of carcinomas, especially
those of the lung and breast?
malignant - Answer-What is a neoplasm that invades and destroys adjacent structures
and spread to distant sites referred to as?
metastasize - Answer-What is to spread by metastasis?
morbidity - Answer-What is the rate that an illness or abnormality occurs?
, mortality - Answer-What is the statistically expected death rate calculated by reviewing
the population involved?
mutations - Answer-What are alterations in the DNA structure that may become
permanent hereditary changes?
neoplasia - Answer-What is any new and abnormal growth, especially when the growth
is uncontrolled and progressive?
nosocomial - Answer-Incidences of infections being developed at the acute care facility
are considered what type of infections?
oncology - Answer-What is the study of neoplasms?
permeable membrane - Answer-What describes a membrane that allows fluids to pass
through?
pyogenic bacteria - Answer-What is bacteria that lead to the production of a thick,
yellow fluid called pus?
recessive - Answer-What type of genes manifest themselves only when the person is
homozygous for the trait?
sarcomas - Answer-What are highly malignant tumors arising from connective tissues?
signs - Answer-What are the measurable or objective manifestations of the disease
process?
staging - Answer-What is the determination of the amount of spread of a neoplasms,
necessary to select appropriate therapy and to predict the future course of a disease?
symptoms - Answer-What are the experiences the patient feels and describes, or the
subjective manifestations that are not measurable or observable?
toxoid - Answer-What is a chemically altered toxin?
undifferentiated - Answer-What is a synonym for anaplastic?
vaccine - Answer-What is a low dose of dead or deactivated bacteria or virus?
pathology - Answer-What is the study of diseases that can cause abnormalities in the
structure of function of various organ systems?
disease - Answer-What is the pattern of the body's response to some form of injury that
causes a deviation from or variation of normal conditions?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
granulation tissue - Answer-What is the combination of young developing capillaries and
actively proliferating fibroblasts producing connective tissue fibers?
hematogenous spread - Answer-What is traveling by the means of the bloodstream
called?
hematoma - Answer-What is a hemorrhage trapped in body tissues?
hemorrhage - Answer-What is the rupture of a blood vessel?
hereditary diseases - Answer-What are diseases transmitted to offspring through
genes?
hyperplasia - Answer-What is an abnormal increase in the number of cells composing a
tissue or organ?
iatrogenic - Answer-What is a disease that results from the activity of diagnosis or
treatment by medical personnel
idiopathic - Answer-What is having unknown cause for an underlying disease?
immune - Answer-What is the reaction of the body that provides a powerful defense
against invading organisms?
infarct - Answer-What is a localized area of ischemic necrosis within a tissue or organ
produced by occlusion of either its arterial supply or its venous drainage?
inflammation - Answer-What is the initial response of body tissue to local injury?
ischemia - Answer-What is a lack of blood supply in an organ or tissue?
lymphatic spread - Answer-What is the major metastatic rout of carcinomas, especially
those of the lung and breast?
malignant - Answer-What is a neoplasm that invades and destroys adjacent structures
and spread to distant sites referred to as?
metastasize - Answer-What is to spread by metastasis?
morbidity - Answer-What is the rate that an illness or abnormality occurs?
, mortality - Answer-What is the statistically expected death rate calculated by reviewing
the population involved?
mutations - Answer-What are alterations in the DNA structure that may become
permanent hereditary changes?
neoplasia - Answer-What is any new and abnormal growth, especially when the growth
is uncontrolled and progressive?
nosocomial - Answer-Incidences of infections being developed at the acute care facility
are considered what type of infections?
oncology - Answer-What is the study of neoplasms?
permeable membrane - Answer-What describes a membrane that allows fluids to pass
through?
pyogenic bacteria - Answer-What is bacteria that lead to the production of a thick,
yellow fluid called pus?
recessive - Answer-What type of genes manifest themselves only when the person is
homozygous for the trait?
sarcomas - Answer-What are highly malignant tumors arising from connective tissues?
signs - Answer-What are the measurable or objective manifestations of the disease
process?
staging - Answer-What is the determination of the amount of spread of a neoplasms,
necessary to select appropriate therapy and to predict the future course of a disease?
symptoms - Answer-What are the experiences the patient feels and describes, or the
subjective manifestations that are not measurable or observable?
toxoid - Answer-What is a chemically altered toxin?
undifferentiated - Answer-What is a synonym for anaplastic?
vaccine - Answer-What is a low dose of dead or deactivated bacteria or virus?
pathology - Answer-What is the study of diseases that can cause abnormalities in the
structure of function of various organ systems?
disease - Answer-What is the pattern of the body's response to some form of injury that
causes a deviation from or variation of normal conditions?
