Radiographic Pathology - Chapter 1 Questions
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Neoplasia ✔️✔️Presumed to result from a genetic change that produces a single population of
new cells
Functional Disease ✔️✔️Diseases in which the function of the organ may be impaired, but its
structural elements are unchanged
Exogenous Agents ✔️✔️Causative agents that are external in nature
Endogenous Agents ✔️✔️Agents that are internal in nature
Divisions of External Causes ✔️✔️Mechanical (physical), chemical, and microbiologic.
Trauma ✔️✔️Direct physical injury by an object
Examples of physical agents causing disease ✔️✔️Extreme heat and cold, electricity, atmospheric
pressure, and radiation.
Chemical Injuries ✔️✔️An external cause. Generally divided into poisoning or drug reactions.
Infections ✔️✔️Microbiologic injuries classified by the type of organism
Nosocomial Infections ✔️✔️Infections acquired while in the hospital. Usually a UTI from catheter
placement
, Iatrogenic Diseases ✔️✔️Infections resulting from treatment by a heal professional
Divisions of Internal Causes ✔️✔️Vascular, immunologic, and metabolic diseases
Vascular diseases ✔️✔️May involve obstruction of the blood supply to an organ or tissue,
bleeding, or alterd blood flow
Myocardial Infarct ✔️✔️Ischemic Infarct occurring in the heart. Leading cause of death from
vascular insufficiency
Vascular Insufficiency ✔️✔️Leading internal cause of structural disease
Ischemia ✔️✔️Deficiency of ocygen and nutrient-laden blood in the muscle
Infarct ✔️✔️Area of nectrotic muscle tissue
Immunologic Diseases ✔️✔️Diseases caused by aberrations of the immune system and affect the
body's ability to fight disease
Types of injury ✔️✔️Acute and Chronic
Hypoxia ✔️✔️Reduction in oxygen
Thrombus ✔️✔️A clot in the cardiovascular system
Embolus ✔️✔️A thrombus that has dislodged and moves through the blood stream
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Neoplasia ✔️✔️Presumed to result from a genetic change that produces a single population of
new cells
Functional Disease ✔️✔️Diseases in which the function of the organ may be impaired, but its
structural elements are unchanged
Exogenous Agents ✔️✔️Causative agents that are external in nature
Endogenous Agents ✔️✔️Agents that are internal in nature
Divisions of External Causes ✔️✔️Mechanical (physical), chemical, and microbiologic.
Trauma ✔️✔️Direct physical injury by an object
Examples of physical agents causing disease ✔️✔️Extreme heat and cold, electricity, atmospheric
pressure, and radiation.
Chemical Injuries ✔️✔️An external cause. Generally divided into poisoning or drug reactions.
Infections ✔️✔️Microbiologic injuries classified by the type of organism
Nosocomial Infections ✔️✔️Infections acquired while in the hospital. Usually a UTI from catheter
placement
, Iatrogenic Diseases ✔️✔️Infections resulting from treatment by a heal professional
Divisions of Internal Causes ✔️✔️Vascular, immunologic, and metabolic diseases
Vascular diseases ✔️✔️May involve obstruction of the blood supply to an organ or tissue,
bleeding, or alterd blood flow
Myocardial Infarct ✔️✔️Ischemic Infarct occurring in the heart. Leading cause of death from
vascular insufficiency
Vascular Insufficiency ✔️✔️Leading internal cause of structural disease
Ischemia ✔️✔️Deficiency of ocygen and nutrient-laden blood in the muscle
Infarct ✔️✔️Area of nectrotic muscle tissue
Immunologic Diseases ✔️✔️Diseases caused by aberrations of the immune system and affect the
body's ability to fight disease
Types of injury ✔️✔️Acute and Chronic
Hypoxia ✔️✔️Reduction in oxygen
Thrombus ✔️✔️A clot in the cardiovascular system
Embolus ✔️✔️A thrombus that has dislodged and moves through the blood stream
