2025/2026 PATHO TEST BANK EXAM 1 CURRENTLY
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Ace your Pathophysiology Exam 1 with this targeted test bank,
designed to master complex disease processes and their
systemic manifestations. This resource provides high-yield
practice questions that build clinical judgment for interpreting
signs, symptoms, and underlying mechanisms.
Which of the following processes leads to the development
of cancer? Select all that apply.
A) Activated tumor suppressor genes
B) Increased sensitivity to antigrowth signals
C) Tumor angiogenesis
D) Evasion of apoptosis ...... ANSWER ....... C,D
A patient has a rash all over his body. He got poison ivy.
What type of hypersensitivity is this? ...... ANSWER .......
Type 4
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A person with the flu is being transported to x-ray. The nurse
puts a mask on the patient.
What chain of infection did the nurse break?
A) Portal of Exit
B) Reservoir
C) Means of transmission
D) Portal of Entry ...... ANSWER ....... A
What can be a complication in someone who has colon
cancer?
A) Fecal Impaction
B) Cognitive decline
C) Pulmonary
D) Seeding into the Lungs ...... ANSWER ....... A
What is the most intracellular cation in the ECF? ......
ANSWER ....... Potassium
What does culture and sensitivity do? Select all that apply.
A) Identify the bacteria
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B) Help identify what antibiotics would help treat the
disorder
C) Provide serum antibody levels ...... ANSWER ....... A.B
An 8 year old is with a fever, What drug does the mother not
give? ...... ANSWER ....... Aspirin
A patient has symptoms of fatigue, low grade fever, and
generalized muscle aches would
most likely be present in which stage of acute infection?
A) Prodromal
B) Incubation
C) Convalescence
D) Acute clinical illness ...... ANSWER ....... A
A patient is obese and lives a sedentary lifestyle. What
would be a concern that the nurse
has?
A) Atrophy
B) Hypertrophy
C) Hyperplasia
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D) Dysplasia ...... ANSWER ....... A
A patient has diabetes and a foot with dry gangrene. Which
of the following is a cause why
he has dry gangrene?
A) Cellular necrosis due to ischemia
B) Cellular apotosis due to ischemia
C) cellular necrosis due to
D) cellular apoptosis due to ...... ANSWER ....... A
A patient has burns that went thru epidermal layers, some of
the dermis layer, and extensive
blisters on the skin. How would you classify this burn?
A) Deep partial thickness
B) Superficial thickness
C) Superficial partial thickness
D) Full thickness ...... ANSWER ....... A
A mother passes to her infant her antibodies.
A) Active artificial immunity
B) Active natural immunity