2025 LATEST WCU PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
FINAL EXAM | COMPLETE EXAM ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS.
A patient with high blood pressure who is otherwise healthy
is counseled to restrict sodium intake. This is an example
of? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Secondary prevention
The stage during which the patient functions normally,
although the disease processes are well established is
referred to as? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Subclincial
All these cellular responses are potentially reversible
except? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Necrosis
Many of the responses to stress are attributed to the
activation of the sympathetic nervous system and are
mediated by? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Norepinephrine
Coagulative necrosis is caused by? - ✔ ANSWER ✔
Interrupted blood supply
,After surgery to remove a lung tumor, your patient is
scheduled for chemotherapy, which will? - ✔ ANSWER ✔
Kill rapidly dividing cells
Malignant neoplasm of epithelial origin are known as? - ✔
ANSWER ✔ Carcinomas
Apoptosis is a process that results in cellular? - ✔
ANSWER ✔ Death
An increase in organ size and function due to increased
workload is termed - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Hypertrophy
Necrotic death of brain tissue usually produces __ necrosis -
✔ ANSWER ✔ Liquefactive
Your patient is scheduled for a staging procedure. She
wants to know what that means. The correct response is
which of the following? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Determining extent
of the tumor spread
Tumor markers (select all that apply) - ✔ ANSWER ✔
Everything except (a) - produced by normal cells, determine
cancer origin, idenitfy cancer progression, include anitgen
, A disease that is native to a particular region is called? - ✔
ANSWER ✔ Endemic
After suffering a heart attack, a middle-aged man is
counseled to take a cholesterol-lowering medication. This is
an example of? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Tertiary prevention
C.Q was recently exposed to a group A hemolytic
Streptococcus and subsequently developed a pharyngeal
infection... - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Streptococcal infection
A 17-year old college-bound student receives a vaccine
against an organism that causes meningitis. This is an
example of - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Primary prevention
Allostasis is best defined as? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ The overall
process of adaptive change necessary to maintain survival
and well being
Metaplasia is - ✔ ANSWER ✔ The replacement of one
differentiated cell type with another
Your patient eats "lots of fat," leads a "stressful" life, and
has smoked "about two packs a day for the last 40 years."...
- ✔ ANSWER ✔ Cigarette smoking
FINAL EXAM | COMPLETE EXAM ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS.
A patient with high blood pressure who is otherwise healthy
is counseled to restrict sodium intake. This is an example
of? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Secondary prevention
The stage during which the patient functions normally,
although the disease processes are well established is
referred to as? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Subclincial
All these cellular responses are potentially reversible
except? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Necrosis
Many of the responses to stress are attributed to the
activation of the sympathetic nervous system and are
mediated by? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Norepinephrine
Coagulative necrosis is caused by? - ✔ ANSWER ✔
Interrupted blood supply
,After surgery to remove a lung tumor, your patient is
scheduled for chemotherapy, which will? - ✔ ANSWER ✔
Kill rapidly dividing cells
Malignant neoplasm of epithelial origin are known as? - ✔
ANSWER ✔ Carcinomas
Apoptosis is a process that results in cellular? - ✔
ANSWER ✔ Death
An increase in organ size and function due to increased
workload is termed - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Hypertrophy
Necrotic death of brain tissue usually produces __ necrosis -
✔ ANSWER ✔ Liquefactive
Your patient is scheduled for a staging procedure. She
wants to know what that means. The correct response is
which of the following? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Determining extent
of the tumor spread
Tumor markers (select all that apply) - ✔ ANSWER ✔
Everything except (a) - produced by normal cells, determine
cancer origin, idenitfy cancer progression, include anitgen
, A disease that is native to a particular region is called? - ✔
ANSWER ✔ Endemic
After suffering a heart attack, a middle-aged man is
counseled to take a cholesterol-lowering medication. This is
an example of? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Tertiary prevention
C.Q was recently exposed to a group A hemolytic
Streptococcus and subsequently developed a pharyngeal
infection... - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Streptococcal infection
A 17-year old college-bound student receives a vaccine
against an organism that causes meningitis. This is an
example of - ✔ ANSWER ✔ Primary prevention
Allostasis is best defined as? - ✔ ANSWER ✔ The overall
process of adaptive change necessary to maintain survival
and well being
Metaplasia is - ✔ ANSWER ✔ The replacement of one
differentiated cell type with another
Your patient eats "lots of fat," leads a "stressful" life, and
has smoked "about two packs a day for the last 40 years."...
- ✔ ANSWER ✔ Cigarette smoking
