MIDTERM WCU PATHO 370 LATEST ACTUAL EXAM WITH VERIFIED
QUESTIONS & CORRECT ANSWERS
Question 1.
Tertiary Prevention Examples
Correct Answer: Counseling on medication; rehabilitation; supportive care;
reducing disability
Question 2.
Latent Period
Correct Answer: time between exposure of tissue to injurious agent and first
appearance of signs and/or symptoms
Question 3.
Endemic
Correct Answer: Native to local region
Question 4.
Subclinical Disease
Correct Answer: no noticeable signs or symptoms (inapparent infection)
Question 5.
Etiology
Correct Answer: cause of disease
Question 6.
Idiopathic
Correct Answer: unknown cause
Question 7.
latrogenic
Correct Answer: Cause results from unintended or unwanted medical treatment
Question 8.
Primary prevention
Correct Answer: altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible
persons ex: vaccinations
,Question 9.
Allostasis
Correct Answer: process by which the body achieves stability through
homeostatis
Question 10.
Selye's 3 Phases of Stress
Correct Answer: Alarm reaction; resistance; exhaustian
Question 11.
sympathetic nervous system: Norepinephrine
Correct Answer: causes vasoconstriction & increases BP; Reduces gastric
secretions; increases night and far vision
Question 12.
sympathetic nervous system: epinephrine
Correct Answer: enhances myocardial contractility; increases HR & CO; caus-es
bronchiodilation; increases glucose release from liver
Question 13.
Hormones released during the stress response
Correct Answer: Cortisol Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH) Norepinephrine
Epinephrine Endorphines Oxytocin RAA pathway
(renin-angiotensin-aldosterone)
Question 14.
Types of intracellular accumulation
Correct Answer: -Excessive amounts of normal intracellular substance
-Abnormal substances from faulty matabolism synthesis -particles that the cell
is unable to degrade
Question 15.
Cellular adaptation types
Correct Answer: -Atrophy: Decrease cell size -Hypertrophy: increase cell size
-Hyperplasia: increase cell number -Metaplasia: conversion of one cell type to
another -Dysplasia: disorderly growth
, Question 16.
Coagulative necrosis
Correct Answer: this process begins with ischemia, ends with degradation of
plasma membrane (heart)
Question 17.
Liquefactive necrosis
Correct Answer: liquification of lysosomal enzymes, formation of abscess or cyst
from dissolved dead tissue (brain)
Question 18.
Fat necrosis
Correct Answer: death of adipose tissue, appears as chalk white area ,usually
due to trauma or pancreatitis (pancreas)
Question 19.
Caseous Necrosis
Correct Answer: characteristic of lung damage secondary to tuberculosis
(bacterial infection; resembles clumpy cheese (lung)
Question 20.
Apoptosis
Correct Answer: programmed cell death
Question 21.
Side effects of chemotherapy
Correct Answer: anemia nausea bleeding infections
Question 22.
-oma
Correct Answer: tumor
Question 23.
carcinoma
Correct Answer: cancerous tumor (begins in kin or tissue that lines or covers
body organs)
QUESTIONS & CORRECT ANSWERS
Question 1.
Tertiary Prevention Examples
Correct Answer: Counseling on medication; rehabilitation; supportive care;
reducing disability
Question 2.
Latent Period
Correct Answer: time between exposure of tissue to injurious agent and first
appearance of signs and/or symptoms
Question 3.
Endemic
Correct Answer: Native to local region
Question 4.
Subclinical Disease
Correct Answer: no noticeable signs or symptoms (inapparent infection)
Question 5.
Etiology
Correct Answer: cause of disease
Question 6.
Idiopathic
Correct Answer: unknown cause
Question 7.
latrogenic
Correct Answer: Cause results from unintended or unwanted medical treatment
Question 8.
Primary prevention
Correct Answer: altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible
persons ex: vaccinations
,Question 9.
Allostasis
Correct Answer: process by which the body achieves stability through
homeostatis
Question 10.
Selye's 3 Phases of Stress
Correct Answer: Alarm reaction; resistance; exhaustian
Question 11.
sympathetic nervous system: Norepinephrine
Correct Answer: causes vasoconstriction & increases BP; Reduces gastric
secretions; increases night and far vision
Question 12.
sympathetic nervous system: epinephrine
Correct Answer: enhances myocardial contractility; increases HR & CO; caus-es
bronchiodilation; increases glucose release from liver
Question 13.
Hormones released during the stress response
Correct Answer: Cortisol Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH) Norepinephrine
Epinephrine Endorphines Oxytocin RAA pathway
(renin-angiotensin-aldosterone)
Question 14.
Types of intracellular accumulation
Correct Answer: -Excessive amounts of normal intracellular substance
-Abnormal substances from faulty matabolism synthesis -particles that the cell
is unable to degrade
Question 15.
Cellular adaptation types
Correct Answer: -Atrophy: Decrease cell size -Hypertrophy: increase cell size
-Hyperplasia: increase cell number -Metaplasia: conversion of one cell type to
another -Dysplasia: disorderly growth
, Question 16.
Coagulative necrosis
Correct Answer: this process begins with ischemia, ends with degradation of
plasma membrane (heart)
Question 17.
Liquefactive necrosis
Correct Answer: liquification of lysosomal enzymes, formation of abscess or cyst
from dissolved dead tissue (brain)
Question 18.
Fat necrosis
Correct Answer: death of adipose tissue, appears as chalk white area ,usually
due to trauma or pancreatitis (pancreas)
Question 19.
Caseous Necrosis
Correct Answer: characteristic of lung damage secondary to tuberculosis
(bacterial infection; resembles clumpy cheese (lung)
Question 20.
Apoptosis
Correct Answer: programmed cell death
Question 21.
Side effects of chemotherapy
Correct Answer: anemia nausea bleeding infections
Question 22.
-oma
Correct Answer: tumor
Question 23.
carcinoma
Correct Answer: cancerous tumor (begins in kin or tissue that lines or covers
body organs)
