Nursing Pathophysiology Exam 1 question n answers graded A+

Nursing Pathophysiology Exam 1 Pathophysiology - correct answer Study of the body's response to dysfunction Disease - correct answer Interruption, cessation or disorder of a body system Etiology - correct answer The cause of a disease Clinical manifestations - correct answer Symptoms and chief complaints Morphological changes - correct answer Structural changes that are a result of the disease process Etiological factors - correct answer Biologic agents, physical forces, chemicals, nutritional excess or deficiency, genetic factors What are the three mechanisms of cellular adaptation? - correct answer Size: atrophy and hypertrophy Number: hyperplasia Irregular shape: dysplasia (severe) and metaplasia (chronic) Intercellular accumulation - correct answer Results from normal substances, abnormal endogenous or exogenous products Dystrophic pathological calcification - correct answer In injured tissue, dead cells create calcium deposits that can cause aortic stenosis or be a result of a fracture or TB Metastatic Pathological Calcifications - correct answer Caused by an increase of serum calcium levels in non-injured tissue