AAMI PATHOLOGY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Clinical pathology - ✔✔study of disease by means of body secretions, excretions,
and other body fluids performed in the laboratory in the diagnosis of a disease
✔✔Communicable - ✔✔a disease that may be transmitted directly or indirectly from one
individual to another
✔✔Concussion - ✔✔the immediate and temporary disturbance of brain function
✔✔Congenital - ✔✔existing at the time of birth or shortly thereafter
✔✔Congestion - ✔✔accumulation of an excess of blood or tissue fluid in a body part
✔✔Contusion - ✔✔a bruise often accompanied with swelling
✔✔Cretinism - ✔✔a congenital condition due to hypothyroidism resulting in mental
retardation
✔✔Cryptorchism (Cryptorchidism) - ✔✔condition in which the descent of a testis into
the scrotum is arrested at some point in the normal path
✔✔Cyanosis - ✔✔bluish discoloration of the skin or mucous membrane due to lack of
oxygen
✔✔Cystitis - ✔✔inflammation of the urinary bladder
✔✔Deficiency - ✔✔disease due to lack of dietary or metabolic substance
✔✔Degeneration - ✔✔the deterioration of tissues with corresponding functional
impairment as a result of disease or injury
✔✔Dehydration - ✔✔loss of moisture from body tissue which may occur antemortem or
postmortem
✔✔Diagnosis - ✔✔the term denoting the naming of the disease or syndrome; to
recognize the nature of a disease
✔✔Dilatation (Dilation) - ✔✔the condition of the heart being enlarged, occurring
normally, artificially, or as a result of disease
, ✔✔Dry gangrene (Ischemic Necrosis) - ✔✔condition that results when the body part
that dies had little blood and remains aseptic and occurs when the arteries but not the
veins are obstructed
✔✔Dysplasia - ✔✔abnormal development of tissue
✔✔Ecchymosis - ✔✔small, non elevated hemorrhagic patch; extravasation of blood into
a tissue
✔✔Ectopic pregnancy - ✔✔the implantation of the fertilized ovum in a site other than
the normal one in the uterine cavity
✔✔Edema (Dropsy) - ✔✔abnormal accumulation of fluids in tissue or body cavities
✔✔Emaciation - ✔✔excessive wasting away of the body
✔✔Embolism - ✔✔free floating object in the blood stream
✔✔Empyema - ✔✔pus in the pleural cavity
✔✔Endemic - ✔✔a disease that is continuously present in a community
✔✔Epidemic - ✔✔a disease that is currently in higher than normal numbers
✔✔Epilepsy - ✔✔a chronic neurogenic disease marked by sudden alterations in
consciousness and frequently by convulsions
✔✔Epistaxis - ✔✔bleeding from the nose
✔✔Etiology - ✔✔the study of the cause of disease
✔✔Exacerbation - ✔✔increase in severity of a diseaseincrease in severity of a disease
✔✔Exsanguination - ✔✔loss of blood to the point where life can no longer be sustained
✔✔Febrile - ✔✔term associated with fever
✔✔Fulminating - ✔✔having rapid and severe onset, usually fatal
✔✔Functional - ✔✔a condition or disease in which there is no recognizable change in
anatomy
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Clinical pathology - ✔✔study of disease by means of body secretions, excretions,
and other body fluids performed in the laboratory in the diagnosis of a disease
✔✔Communicable - ✔✔a disease that may be transmitted directly or indirectly from one
individual to another
✔✔Concussion - ✔✔the immediate and temporary disturbance of brain function
✔✔Congenital - ✔✔existing at the time of birth or shortly thereafter
✔✔Congestion - ✔✔accumulation of an excess of blood or tissue fluid in a body part
✔✔Contusion - ✔✔a bruise often accompanied with swelling
✔✔Cretinism - ✔✔a congenital condition due to hypothyroidism resulting in mental
retardation
✔✔Cryptorchism (Cryptorchidism) - ✔✔condition in which the descent of a testis into
the scrotum is arrested at some point in the normal path
✔✔Cyanosis - ✔✔bluish discoloration of the skin or mucous membrane due to lack of
oxygen
✔✔Cystitis - ✔✔inflammation of the urinary bladder
✔✔Deficiency - ✔✔disease due to lack of dietary or metabolic substance
✔✔Degeneration - ✔✔the deterioration of tissues with corresponding functional
impairment as a result of disease or injury
✔✔Dehydration - ✔✔loss of moisture from body tissue which may occur antemortem or
postmortem
✔✔Diagnosis - ✔✔the term denoting the naming of the disease or syndrome; to
recognize the nature of a disease
✔✔Dilatation (Dilation) - ✔✔the condition of the heart being enlarged, occurring
normally, artificially, or as a result of disease
, ✔✔Dry gangrene (Ischemic Necrosis) - ✔✔condition that results when the body part
that dies had little blood and remains aseptic and occurs when the arteries but not the
veins are obstructed
✔✔Dysplasia - ✔✔abnormal development of tissue
✔✔Ecchymosis - ✔✔small, non elevated hemorrhagic patch; extravasation of blood into
a tissue
✔✔Ectopic pregnancy - ✔✔the implantation of the fertilized ovum in a site other than
the normal one in the uterine cavity
✔✔Edema (Dropsy) - ✔✔abnormal accumulation of fluids in tissue or body cavities
✔✔Emaciation - ✔✔excessive wasting away of the body
✔✔Embolism - ✔✔free floating object in the blood stream
✔✔Empyema - ✔✔pus in the pleural cavity
✔✔Endemic - ✔✔a disease that is continuously present in a community
✔✔Epidemic - ✔✔a disease that is currently in higher than normal numbers
✔✔Epilepsy - ✔✔a chronic neurogenic disease marked by sudden alterations in
consciousness and frequently by convulsions
✔✔Epistaxis - ✔✔bleeding from the nose
✔✔Etiology - ✔✔the study of the cause of disease
✔✔Exacerbation - ✔✔increase in severity of a diseaseincrease in severity of a disease
✔✔Exsanguination - ✔✔loss of blood to the point where life can no longer be sustained
✔✔Febrile - ✔✔term associated with fever
✔✔Fulminating - ✔✔having rapid and severe onset, usually fatal
✔✔Functional - ✔✔a condition or disease in which there is no recognizable change in
anatomy
