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Advanced Pathophysiology: Exam 1,
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Risk [ ANS: ] Factor that when present increases the chance of
disease
Not stressors, but conditions or situations that increase the
likelihood of encountering a stressor
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Prevalence [ ANS: ] A measure of disease that allows us to
determine a person's likelihood of having a disease. Therefore, the
number of prevalent cases is the total number of cases of disease
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existing in a population. A prevalence rate is the total number of
cases of a disease existing in a population divided by the total
population
Indicates how widespread the disease is
Incidence [ ANS: ] A measure of disease that allows us to
determine a person's probability of being diagnosed with a
disease during a given period of time. Therefore, incidence is the
number of newly diagnosed cases of a disease. An incidence rate
is the number of new cases of a disease divided by the number of
persons at risk for the disease.
Conveys information about the risk of contracting the disease.
Ratio [ ANS: ] The quantitative relation between two amounts
showing the number of times one value contains or is contained
within the other.
Primary Prevention [ ANS: ] Altering susceptibility or reducing
exposure for susceptible persons
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*Both illness and disease are absent
example: vaccinations, healthy lifestyles
Secondary Prevention [ ANS: ] Early detection, screening, and
management of disease
*Illness absent, disease present
example: screenings and testings
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Tertiary Prevention [ ANS: ] Rehabilitation, supportive care,
reducing disability, and restoring effective functioning
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*Both illness and disease present
example: education
Epidemiology [ ANS: ] study of the patterns of disease involving
populations; examining the occurrence, incidence, prevalence,
transmission, and distribution of diseases in large groups of
populations/people
Endemic [ ANS: ] A disease theat is native to a local region
Epidemic [ ANS: ] When a disease is disseninated to many
individals at the same time
(spread to many people at the same time)
Pandemic [ ANS: ] Epidemics that affect large geographic
regions, perhaps spreading worldwide.
(spread to large geographic areas)
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Homeostasis [ ANS: ] A state of being in which all systems are in
balance around a articular ideal "set-point"
Exhausation [ ANS: ] Point where body can no longer return to
homeostasis following a prolonged exposure to noxious agents
Allostatic Overload [ ANS: ] "Cost" of body's organs and tissues for
an excessive or ineffectively regulated allostatic response; effect
of "wear and tear" on the body
Adaptation [ ANS: ] Adaptation: biopsychosocial process of
change in response to new or altered circumstances, internal or
external in origin
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Coping: behavioral adaptive response to a stressor using culturally
based coping mechanisms
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Adaptation and coping: terms used interchangeably
Arousal [ ANS: ] Includes alterations in responsiveness to
homeostatic pressures, sensory stimuli and emotional reactivity,
and to changes in motor activity
Function of Cortisol [ ANS: ] Primary glucocorticoid
Affects protein metabolism
Promotes appetite and food-seeking behaviors
Has anti-inflammatory effects
Chemical mediator in the inflammation response of the body
Adrenal corticosteroid critical to maintenance of homeostasis
May synergize or antagonize effects of catecholamines
Endocrine Communication [ ANS: ] Hormones traveling in the
bloodstream
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Long range signaling
Neurocrine Communication [ ANS: ] Neurons firing information
through synapses
Signals travel a very small distance between neuron and target
cell
Paracrine Communcation [ ANS: ] Signaling through the
extraceullar fluid between cells in a tissue
Localized areas of communication
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Autocrine Communcation [ ANS: ] Localized signaling in which
the secreting cell is also the target cell
Feedback to self
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Describe an Action Potential [ ANS: ] Rapid, self-propagating
electrical excitations of the membrane
Mediated by voltage-gated ion channels that open (sodium flows
into the cell) and close in response to voltage changes across the
membrane
Triggered by membrane depolarization
Propagated by sequential opening of voltage-gated sodium
channels in adjacent sections of membrane.
The action potential is regenerated in adjacent sections of
membrane as more sodium channels open. The initial segment
repolarizes as sodium channels close and potassium ions move
out.
Cardiac muscles: repolarization is prolonged from calcium influx
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Advanced Pathophysiology: Exam 1,
Regis College NU606 Quiz 1 Questions and
Answers (100% Correct Answers) Already
Graded A+
Risk [ ANS: ] Factor that when present increases the chance of
disease
Not stressors, but conditions or situations that increase the
likelihood of encountering a stressor
© 2025 Assignment Expert
Prevalence [ ANS: ] A measure of disease that allows us to
determine a person's likelihood of having a disease. Therefore, the
number of prevalent cases is the total number of cases of disease
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existing in a population. A prevalence rate is the total number of
cases of a disease existing in a population divided by the total
population
Indicates how widespread the disease is
Incidence [ ANS: ] A measure of disease that allows us to
determine a person's probability of being diagnosed with a
disease during a given period of time. Therefore, incidence is the
number of newly diagnosed cases of a disease. An incidence rate
is the number of new cases of a disease divided by the number of
persons at risk for the disease.
Conveys information about the risk of contracting the disease.
Ratio [ ANS: ] The quantitative relation between two amounts
showing the number of times one value contains or is contained
within the other.
Primary Prevention [ ANS: ] Altering susceptibility or reducing
exposure for susceptible persons
, 2
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*Both illness and disease are absent
example: vaccinations, healthy lifestyles
Secondary Prevention [ ANS: ] Early detection, screening, and
management of disease
*Illness absent, disease present
example: screenings and testings
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Tertiary Prevention [ ANS: ] Rehabilitation, supportive care,
reducing disability, and restoring effective functioning
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*Both illness and disease present
example: education
Epidemiology [ ANS: ] study of the patterns of disease involving
populations; examining the occurrence, incidence, prevalence,
transmission, and distribution of diseases in large groups of
populations/people
Endemic [ ANS: ] A disease theat is native to a local region
Epidemic [ ANS: ] When a disease is disseninated to many
individals at the same time
(spread to many people at the same time)
Pandemic [ ANS: ] Epidemics that affect large geographic
regions, perhaps spreading worldwide.
(spread to large geographic areas)
, 3
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Homeostasis [ ANS: ] A state of being in which all systems are in
balance around a articular ideal "set-point"
Exhausation [ ANS: ] Point where body can no longer return to
homeostasis following a prolonged exposure to noxious agents
Allostatic Overload [ ANS: ] "Cost" of body's organs and tissues for
an excessive or ineffectively regulated allostatic response; effect
of "wear and tear" on the body
Adaptation [ ANS: ] Adaptation: biopsychosocial process of
change in response to new or altered circumstances, internal or
external in origin
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Coping: behavioral adaptive response to a stressor using culturally
based coping mechanisms
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Adaptation and coping: terms used interchangeably
Arousal [ ANS: ] Includes alterations in responsiveness to
homeostatic pressures, sensory stimuli and emotional reactivity,
and to changes in motor activity
Function of Cortisol [ ANS: ] Primary glucocorticoid
Affects protein metabolism
Promotes appetite and food-seeking behaviors
Has anti-inflammatory effects
Chemical mediator in the inflammation response of the body
Adrenal corticosteroid critical to maintenance of homeostasis
May synergize or antagonize effects of catecholamines
Endocrine Communication [ ANS: ] Hormones traveling in the
bloodstream
, 4
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Long range signaling
Neurocrine Communication [ ANS: ] Neurons firing information
through synapses
Signals travel a very small distance between neuron and target
cell
Paracrine Communcation [ ANS: ] Signaling through the
extraceullar fluid between cells in a tissue
Localized areas of communication
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Autocrine Communcation [ ANS: ] Localized signaling in which
the secreting cell is also the target cell
Feedback to self
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Describe an Action Potential [ ANS: ] Rapid, self-propagating
electrical excitations of the membrane
Mediated by voltage-gated ion channels that open (sodium flows
into the cell) and close in response to voltage changes across the
membrane
Triggered by membrane depolarization
Propagated by sequential opening of voltage-gated sodium
channels in adjacent sections of membrane.
The action potential is regenerated in adjacent sections of
membrane as more sodium channels open. The initial segment
repolarizes as sodium channels close and potassium ions move
out.
Cardiac muscles: repolarization is prolonged from calcium influx
