NURB 3050 Exam 1 Study Set Questions
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What is the definition of Health? (World Health Organization 1948) - Answer a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
What does Pathophysiology study? - Answer the study of the body's response to dysfunction
or disease
What does Epidemiology study? - Answer the branch of medicine which deals with the
incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.
Define pathogenesis - Answer the manner in which a disease develops
What is Etiology the study of? - Answer the study of the causes of diseases
Sequelae - Answer A condition resulting from a prior disease, injury, or attack
Physiolgy - Answer study of how the body functions
Clinical Manifestations - Answer the signs and symptoms of the disease
Risk Factors - Answer A risk factor is a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases the
likelihood of developing a particular disease or injury
sign vs symptom - Answer Sign-things that can be seen, (ex. like a red spot on your skin)
Symptom- how you feel (ex. nausea)
Acute vs. Chronic - Answer short term vs long term
Factors that affect someone ability to adapt to stressors (exo and endo) - Answer Age
Health Status
Psychosocial resources
The rapidity to adapt
The availability of adaptive responses
, Prevalence vs. Incidence - Answer the number of cases of a disease in a specific population at
a particular timepoint vs. the number of new cases that occur in a specific period of time.
Morbidity vs. Mortality - Answer Illness that affects a person vs. Death caused by a disease
Primary Intervention - Answer removing risk factors so the disease does not occur
(immuzations)
Secondary Intervention - Answer Detecting disease early on, still curable (pap smear)
Tertiary Intervention - Answer prevents further deterioration and reducing complications
(antibiotics)
Atrophy - Answer decrease in cell size
Hypertrophy - Answer increase in cell size
Hyperplasia - Answer increase in number of cells
Dysplasia - Answer deranged cell growth of a specific tissue
Metaplasia - Answer replacement of adult cells
Apoptosis - Answer programmed cell death
Necrosis - Answer tissue death
ischemia causes hypoxia how? - Answer induced calcium disruption ends up depriving the cell
of O2
Wet gangrene vs dry gangrene - Answer Affected area is cold, swollen and pulseless. Skin is
moist and black. Spreads fast vs. Affected tissue becomes dry and shrink, black and spread is
slow
Endogenous vs. Exogenous - Answer Internal cause vs. external cause
All Solved 2026-2027 Updated.
What is the definition of Health? (World Health Organization 1948) - Answer a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
What does Pathophysiology study? - Answer the study of the body's response to dysfunction
or disease
What does Epidemiology study? - Answer the branch of medicine which deals with the
incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.
Define pathogenesis - Answer the manner in which a disease develops
What is Etiology the study of? - Answer the study of the causes of diseases
Sequelae - Answer A condition resulting from a prior disease, injury, or attack
Physiolgy - Answer study of how the body functions
Clinical Manifestations - Answer the signs and symptoms of the disease
Risk Factors - Answer A risk factor is a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases the
likelihood of developing a particular disease or injury
sign vs symptom - Answer Sign-things that can be seen, (ex. like a red spot on your skin)
Symptom- how you feel (ex. nausea)
Acute vs. Chronic - Answer short term vs long term
Factors that affect someone ability to adapt to stressors (exo and endo) - Answer Age
Health Status
Psychosocial resources
The rapidity to adapt
The availability of adaptive responses
, Prevalence vs. Incidence - Answer the number of cases of a disease in a specific population at
a particular timepoint vs. the number of new cases that occur in a specific period of time.
Morbidity vs. Mortality - Answer Illness that affects a person vs. Death caused by a disease
Primary Intervention - Answer removing risk factors so the disease does not occur
(immuzations)
Secondary Intervention - Answer Detecting disease early on, still curable (pap smear)
Tertiary Intervention - Answer prevents further deterioration and reducing complications
(antibiotics)
Atrophy - Answer decrease in cell size
Hypertrophy - Answer increase in cell size
Hyperplasia - Answer increase in number of cells
Dysplasia - Answer deranged cell growth of a specific tissue
Metaplasia - Answer replacement of adult cells
Apoptosis - Answer programmed cell death
Necrosis - Answer tissue death
ischemia causes hypoxia how? - Answer induced calcium disruption ends up depriving the cell
of O2
Wet gangrene vs dry gangrene - Answer Affected area is cold, swollen and pulseless. Skin is
moist and black. Spreads fast vs. Affected tissue becomes dry and shrink, black and spread is
slow
Endogenous vs. Exogenous - Answer Internal cause vs. external cause
