Midterm WCU Patho 370 Exam
Questions and Guide Answers
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1. Tertiary Prevention Examples
Answer: Counseling on medication; rehabilitation; supportive care; reducing disability
2. Latent Period
Answer: time between exposure of tissue to injurious agent and first appearance of signs and/or
symptoms
3. Endemic
Answer: Native to local region
4. Subclinical Disease
Answer: no noticeable signs or symptoms (inapparent infection)
5. Etiology
Answer: cause of disease
,6. Idiopathic
Answer: unknown cause
7. latrogenic
Answer: Cause results from unintended or unwanted medical treatment
8. Primary prevention
Answer: altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible persons ex
Answer: vaccinations
9. Allostasis
Answer: process by which the body achieves stability through homeostatis
10. Selye's 3 Phases of Stress
Answer: Alarm reaction; resistance; exhaustian
11. sympathetic nervous system: Norepinephrine
Answer: causes vasoconstriction & increases BP; Reduces gastric secretions; increases night and far
vision
12. sympathetic nervous system: epinephrine
Answer: enhances myocardial contractility; increases HR & CO; causes bronchiodilation; increases
glucose release from liver
13. Hormones released during the stress response
Answer: Cortisol Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH)
, Norepinephrine
Epinephrine
Endorphines
Oxytocin
RAA pathway (renin-angiotensin-aldosterone)
14. Types of intracellular accumulation
Answer: -Excessive amounts of normal intracellular substance
-Abnormal substances from faulty matabolism synthesis
-particles that the cell is unable to degrade
15. Cellular adaptation types
Answer: -Atrophy Decrease cell size
-Hypertrophy increase cell size
-Hyperplasia increase cell number
-Metaplasia conversion of one cell type to another
-Dysplasia disorderly growth
Questions and Guide Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. Tertiary Prevention Examples
Answer: Counseling on medication; rehabilitation; supportive care; reducing disability
2. Latent Period
Answer: time between exposure of tissue to injurious agent and first appearance of signs and/or
symptoms
3. Endemic
Answer: Native to local region
4. Subclinical Disease
Answer: no noticeable signs or symptoms (inapparent infection)
5. Etiology
Answer: cause of disease
,6. Idiopathic
Answer: unknown cause
7. latrogenic
Answer: Cause results from unintended or unwanted medical treatment
8. Primary prevention
Answer: altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible persons ex
Answer: vaccinations
9. Allostasis
Answer: process by which the body achieves stability through homeostatis
10. Selye's 3 Phases of Stress
Answer: Alarm reaction; resistance; exhaustian
11. sympathetic nervous system: Norepinephrine
Answer: causes vasoconstriction & increases BP; Reduces gastric secretions; increases night and far
vision
12. sympathetic nervous system: epinephrine
Answer: enhances myocardial contractility; increases HR & CO; causes bronchiodilation; increases
glucose release from liver
13. Hormones released during the stress response
Answer: Cortisol Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH)
, Norepinephrine
Epinephrine
Endorphines
Oxytocin
RAA pathway (renin-angiotensin-aldosterone)
14. Types of intracellular accumulation
Answer: -Excessive amounts of normal intracellular substance
-Abnormal substances from faulty matabolism synthesis
-particles that the cell is unable to degrade
15. Cellular adaptation types
Answer: -Atrophy Decrease cell size
-Hypertrophy increase cell size
-Hyperplasia increase cell number
-Metaplasia conversion of one cell type to another
-Dysplasia disorderly growth
