HOSA Pathophysiology Exam With Complete Solutions 2024

Syndrome - correct answer-a concurrence of symptoms that appear in a disease state or morbid process Disease - correct answer-absence of balance of the homeostatic state that normally exists in the body Hypertrophy - correct answer-increased size of cell or organ unrelated to tumor Atrophy - correct answer-wasting of tissues, organ or the entire body Dysplasia - correct answer-tissue with cells of varying size and shape Hyperplasia - correct answer-increase number of cells Metaplasia - correct answer-one mature cell replaced by different mature cell Lesion - correct answer-circumscribed (definite area) pathologic change in the tissues Ischemia - correct answer-local anemia due to mechanical obstruction of vessel Infarction - correct answer-area of necrosis (dead tissue) resulting from local arrest or sudden insufficiency of arterial or venous blood. Inflammation - correct answer-fundamental pathologic process consisting of a dynamic complex of cytologic and histologic reactions that occur in tissues and blood vessels Malignant - correct answer-resistant to treatment, occurring in severe form and frequently fatal Systemic - correct answer-relates to entire organism as distinguished from any of its individual parts/ wide spread symptoms and destruction Etiology - correct answer-cause of disease and all factors associated with causes that lead to the development of disease Infectious disease - correct answer-bacterial or viral agent "passed" from person-to-person Heredity - correct answer-transmitted from parent to offspring Mutation - correct answer-change in genes (DNA)