Pathophysiology Definition Verified Practice Questions 100% Correct Answers/2024.

body physiology that result from disease or injury Incidence - correct answer the number of new cases occurring in a specific time period Prevalence - correct answer the number of existing cases within a population during a specific time period Endemic - correct answer regularly found among particular people or in a certain area Epidemic - correct answer a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular rate Pandemic - correct answer prevalent over a whole country or the world pathogenesis - correct answer the pattern of tissue changes associated with the development of disease etiology - correct answer the study of the cause of disease precipitating factors - correct answer a condition of event that does cause a pathologic event or disorder morbidity - correct answer another term for illness mortality - correct answer another term for death. the number of deaths due to a disease by the total population hemoglobin - correct answer the protein molecule in RBC that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body's tissues and returns carbon dioxide from the tissues back to the lungs contusion - correct answer a region of tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured; a bruise hematoma - correct answer a swelling comprising a moss of extravasated blood (usually clotted) confined to an organ, tissue, or space and caused by a break in a blood vessel abrasion - correct answer scraping away of skin or mucous membrane as a result of injury or by mechanical means laceration - correct answer a wound or irregular tear of the flesh fractures - correct answer an injury upon assessment that is painful, swollen, or deformed. a break of a bone bruising - correct answer a traumatic injury in which blood vessels are broken but tissue surfaces remain intact. Discoloration, swelling, inflammation and pain are typical signs and symptoms livor mortis - correct answer a dark blue staining of the dependent surface of a cadaver due to the pooling and congestion of blood algor mortis - correct answer the lowering of body temperature after death rigor mortis - correct answer stiffening of muscle upon death due to calcium buildup; jaw is first to go