PCH 265 MIDTERM SCSU QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
\.Health - ANSWERS✔-the state of being free from illness or injury.
\.disease - ANSWERS✔-An abnormal state in which the body is not functioning
normally
\.How to recognize disease? - ANSWERS✔-Signs (fever) and Symptoms (nausea)
\.Course of a disease? - ANSWERS✔-a description of a disease or other condition
often using incidence, prevalence, and case-fatality
\.Prevelance - ANSWERS✔-The number or proportion of cases of a particular
disease or condition present in a population at a given time.
\.Incidence - ANSWERS✔-The number or rate of new cases of a particular
condition during a specific time.
\.acute - ANSWERS✔-New, usually of rapid onset and of concern, opposite of
chronic
, \.Etiology - ANSWERS✔-cause of disease
\.Pathogenisis - ANSWERS✔-development of disease
\.idiopathic - ANSWERS✔-unknown cause
\.lesion - ANSWERS✔-damaged gene, enzyme, cells, tissues or organs
\.risk factors - ANSWERS✔-factors linked with a disease by association but not yet
proved to be causes.
\.immunity - ANSWERS✔-Resistance to disease
\.non-specific immunity - ANSWERS✔-innate
\.Specific Immunity - ANSWERS✔-Acquired or adaptive immunity: recognize
specific agents, adapt/respond and target these agent
\.physical immunity - ANSWERS✔-physically bars pathogens from entering the
body
\.chemical barriers to infection - ANSWERS✔--saliva, tears, and mucus which all
contain the enzyme lysozyme, which degrades bacterial cell walls and causes
them to lyse, or burst
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
\.Health - ANSWERS✔-the state of being free from illness or injury.
\.disease - ANSWERS✔-An abnormal state in which the body is not functioning
normally
\.How to recognize disease? - ANSWERS✔-Signs (fever) and Symptoms (nausea)
\.Course of a disease? - ANSWERS✔-a description of a disease or other condition
often using incidence, prevalence, and case-fatality
\.Prevelance - ANSWERS✔-The number or proportion of cases of a particular
disease or condition present in a population at a given time.
\.Incidence - ANSWERS✔-The number or rate of new cases of a particular
condition during a specific time.
\.acute - ANSWERS✔-New, usually of rapid onset and of concern, opposite of
chronic
, \.Etiology - ANSWERS✔-cause of disease
\.Pathogenisis - ANSWERS✔-development of disease
\.idiopathic - ANSWERS✔-unknown cause
\.lesion - ANSWERS✔-damaged gene, enzyme, cells, tissues or organs
\.risk factors - ANSWERS✔-factors linked with a disease by association but not yet
proved to be causes.
\.immunity - ANSWERS✔-Resistance to disease
\.non-specific immunity - ANSWERS✔-innate
\.Specific Immunity - ANSWERS✔-Acquired or adaptive immunity: recognize
specific agents, adapt/respond and target these agent
\.physical immunity - ANSWERS✔-physically bars pathogens from entering the
body
\.chemical barriers to infection - ANSWERS✔--saliva, tears, and mucus which all
contain the enzyme lysozyme, which degrades bacterial cell walls and causes
them to lyse, or burst
