CHSO 404 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE
Pyknosis - Answers - nuclear shrinkage
Karylosis - Answers - degraded DNA; dissolution of nucleus
Karyorrhexis - Answers - Nucleus fragments
hemosiderin - Answers - pigment released from hemoglobin process
lipofuscin - Answers - a pigment that occurs as clumps of yellowish brown granules in
the cytoplasm
hyaline change - Answers - homogenous, glassy, pink appearance
intercellular accumulations of proteins
dystrophic - Answers - muscle deteriorates because of defective nutrition or metabolism
atrophy - Answers - the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline
or failure; to waste away
hypertrophy - Answers - increase in cell size
eventually body may not be able to compensate
hyperplasia - Answers - increase in number of cells
only certain cells have this ability
metaplasia - Answers - Mature cell type is replaced by a different mature cell type
*may be predisposition to cancer
dysplasia - Answers - abnormal development or growth of cells, tissues, or organs
become cells with multiple nuclei, can't tell what they are
granuloma - Answers - a general term used to describe a small, knot-like swelling of
granulation tissue in the epidermis
benign - Answers - well differentiated, can be removed surgically
lost growth control measures
localized and demarcated
malignant - Answers - cancerous, less differentiated, mature
invade neighboring tissue, can spread
Pyknosis - Answers - nuclear shrinkage
Karylosis - Answers - degraded DNA; dissolution of nucleus
Karyorrhexis - Answers - Nucleus fragments
hemosiderin - Answers - pigment released from hemoglobin process
lipofuscin - Answers - a pigment that occurs as clumps of yellowish brown granules in
the cytoplasm
hyaline change - Answers - homogenous, glassy, pink appearance
intercellular accumulations of proteins
dystrophic - Answers - muscle deteriorates because of defective nutrition or metabolism
atrophy - Answers - the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline
or failure; to waste away
hypertrophy - Answers - increase in cell size
eventually body may not be able to compensate
hyperplasia - Answers - increase in number of cells
only certain cells have this ability
metaplasia - Answers - Mature cell type is replaced by a different mature cell type
*may be predisposition to cancer
dysplasia - Answers - abnormal development or growth of cells, tissues, or organs
become cells with multiple nuclei, can't tell what they are
granuloma - Answers - a general term used to describe a small, knot-like swelling of
granulation tissue in the epidermis
benign - Answers - well differentiated, can be removed surgically
lost growth control measures
localized and demarcated
malignant - Answers - cancerous, less differentiated, mature
invade neighboring tissue, can spread
