NURS 3040 Patho Test 1 Vocab
Questions and Answers.
Prognosis - Answer expected outcome of a disease
Prodromal - Answer the time between infection and display of symptoms
"I don't feel so well, I might be coming down with something"
Ischemia - Answer Lack of arterial blood flow, common source of injury
DECREASED blood flow, not absence
Acute - Answer rapid, sharp onset of symptoms
Asystole - Answer absence of contractions of the heart, cardiac arrest
Fulminant - Answer rapid, severe, overwhelming onset of a severe disease process
Epidemiology - Answer study diseases and patterns
Febrile - Answer pyrogenic response to a fever
Iatrogenic - Answer the medical treatment caused a problem
EX: issues associated with chemo treatment
Nosocomial - Answer diseases acquired in a hospital setting
Insidious - Answer slow onset, may be hard to recognize at first
Syndrome - Answer group of interrelated problems that make a case complex
derive from and affect multiple body systems
Etiology - Answer the cause of a disease
Remission - Answer a temporary recovery from a disease
, Latent - Answer have a disease, but may not know it because no symptoms are shown
Infarct - Answer area of dead tissue after a lack of blood supply
Idiopathic - Answer unknown cause of acquiring a disease
Sequelae - Answer a secondary pathologic consequence of a disease
Incidence - Answer new cases counted each week, month, etc
Prevalence - Answer how many people in a given population are affected by a disease
Exacerbation - Answer increase in the worsening of signs or symptoms
Disseminated - Answer a condition spreads around
"Oh no, it's everywhere"
Necrotic - Answer dead tissue caused by lack of blood flow to the area
Pathogenesis - Answer pattern of tissue changes that give rise to a disease, which causes
microscopic changes in the cell
Histology - Answer changes in the histology of cells, aids in the diagnosis
Diagnosis - Answer collecting signs and symptoms to make an outcome and a list of possible
causes
Risk (predisposing) factor - Answer may contribute to a disease process (genetics,
environment)
Precipitating factors - Answer conditions or events that led to pathogenesis
Physiological adaptation - Answer normal for the cell to adapt
Pathologic adaptation - Answer response to adverse conditions as a temporary solution to
stress
Questions and Answers.
Prognosis - Answer expected outcome of a disease
Prodromal - Answer the time between infection and display of symptoms
"I don't feel so well, I might be coming down with something"
Ischemia - Answer Lack of arterial blood flow, common source of injury
DECREASED blood flow, not absence
Acute - Answer rapid, sharp onset of symptoms
Asystole - Answer absence of contractions of the heart, cardiac arrest
Fulminant - Answer rapid, severe, overwhelming onset of a severe disease process
Epidemiology - Answer study diseases and patterns
Febrile - Answer pyrogenic response to a fever
Iatrogenic - Answer the medical treatment caused a problem
EX: issues associated with chemo treatment
Nosocomial - Answer diseases acquired in a hospital setting
Insidious - Answer slow onset, may be hard to recognize at first
Syndrome - Answer group of interrelated problems that make a case complex
derive from and affect multiple body systems
Etiology - Answer the cause of a disease
Remission - Answer a temporary recovery from a disease
, Latent - Answer have a disease, but may not know it because no symptoms are shown
Infarct - Answer area of dead tissue after a lack of blood supply
Idiopathic - Answer unknown cause of acquiring a disease
Sequelae - Answer a secondary pathologic consequence of a disease
Incidence - Answer new cases counted each week, month, etc
Prevalence - Answer how many people in a given population are affected by a disease
Exacerbation - Answer increase in the worsening of signs or symptoms
Disseminated - Answer a condition spreads around
"Oh no, it's everywhere"
Necrotic - Answer dead tissue caused by lack of blood flow to the area
Pathogenesis - Answer pattern of tissue changes that give rise to a disease, which causes
microscopic changes in the cell
Histology - Answer changes in the histology of cells, aids in the diagnosis
Diagnosis - Answer collecting signs and symptoms to make an outcome and a list of possible
causes
Risk (predisposing) factor - Answer may contribute to a disease process (genetics,
environment)
Precipitating factors - Answer conditions or events that led to pathogenesis
Physiological adaptation - Answer normal for the cell to adapt
Pathologic adaptation - Answer response to adverse conditions as a temporary solution to
stress
