ARRT Pathology Review Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Signs -
correct answer ✅Measurable or objective manifestations of the
disease process
Symptoms -
correct answer ✅Experience the patient feels and describes
Iatrogenic -
correct answer ✅Caused by physicians and their treatment
Diagnosis -
correct answer ✅The precise disease process affect the patient
Etiology -
correct answer ✅Underlying cause of disease
Idiopathic -
correct answer ✅Unknown cause of disease
Prognosis -
correct answer ✅Describes the expected patient outcome
,ARRT Pathology Review Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Syndrome -
correct answer ✅Condition characterized by a group of sings,
symptoms, and disease process
Nosocomial -
correct answer ✅Development of infections at the acute care
facility
Community acquired -
correct answer ✅Infections that develop outside of a health care
facility
Inflammation -
correct answer ✅Initial response of body tissues to local injury
Granulation tissue -
correct answer ✅Combination of young developing capillaries and
proliferating fibroblasts
Pyogenic -
correct answer ✅Production of pus
,ARRT Pathology Review Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Bacteremia -
correct answer ✅Potential involvement of other organs and
tissues in the body by organisms invading blood vessels
Permeable -
correct answer ✅Allows fluid/cells to pass from one tissue to
another tissue or location
Edema -
correct answer ✅Accumulation of abnormal amounts of fluid in
the intercellular tissue spaces or body cavities
Anasarca -
correct answer ✅Generalized edema that occurs with pronounced
swelling with subcutaneous tissues throughout the body
Elephantiasis -
correct answer ✅Localized lymphatic obstruction resulting in
localized edema
, ARRT Pathology Review Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Ischemia -
correct answer ✅Interference with blood supply to an organ or
part of an organ
Infarct -
correct answer ✅Localized area of ischemic necrosis within a
tissue or organ
Hemorrhage -
correct answer ✅Implies rupture of blood vessel
Hematoma -
correct answer ✅Accumulation of blood trapped within body
tissue
Atrophy -
correct answer ✅Reduction in number or size of cells in an organ
or tissue with corresponding decrease in function
Hypertrophy -
correct answer ✅Increase in size of the cells of a tissue or organ in
response to a demand for increased function
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Signs -
correct answer ✅Measurable or objective manifestations of the
disease process
Symptoms -
correct answer ✅Experience the patient feels and describes
Iatrogenic -
correct answer ✅Caused by physicians and their treatment
Diagnosis -
correct answer ✅The precise disease process affect the patient
Etiology -
correct answer ✅Underlying cause of disease
Idiopathic -
correct answer ✅Unknown cause of disease
Prognosis -
correct answer ✅Describes the expected patient outcome
,ARRT Pathology Review Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Syndrome -
correct answer ✅Condition characterized by a group of sings,
symptoms, and disease process
Nosocomial -
correct answer ✅Development of infections at the acute care
facility
Community acquired -
correct answer ✅Infections that develop outside of a health care
facility
Inflammation -
correct answer ✅Initial response of body tissues to local injury
Granulation tissue -
correct answer ✅Combination of young developing capillaries and
proliferating fibroblasts
Pyogenic -
correct answer ✅Production of pus
,ARRT Pathology Review Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Bacteremia -
correct answer ✅Potential involvement of other organs and
tissues in the body by organisms invading blood vessels
Permeable -
correct answer ✅Allows fluid/cells to pass from one tissue to
another tissue or location
Edema -
correct answer ✅Accumulation of abnormal amounts of fluid in
the intercellular tissue spaces or body cavities
Anasarca -
correct answer ✅Generalized edema that occurs with pronounced
swelling with subcutaneous tissues throughout the body
Elephantiasis -
correct answer ✅Localized lymphatic obstruction resulting in
localized edema
, ARRT Pathology Review Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Ischemia -
correct answer ✅Interference with blood supply to an organ or
part of an organ
Infarct -
correct answer ✅Localized area of ischemic necrosis within a
tissue or organ
Hemorrhage -
correct answer ✅Implies rupture of blood vessel
Hematoma -
correct answer ✅Accumulation of blood trapped within body
tissue
Atrophy -
correct answer ✅Reduction in number or size of cells in an organ
or tissue with corresponding decrease in function
Hypertrophy -
correct answer ✅Increase in size of the cells of a tissue or organ in
response to a demand for increased function
