Comps Pathology Extra Questions

Anasarca

What is generalized edema?

Congenital

A disease or malformation present at birth?

Gross Pathology

What pathology is the examination of tissues with the naked eye?

Carbuncle.

What is several communicating boils of the skin and subcutaneous tissues with the production and discharge of pus and dead tissue?

Acute

What is the term describes a disease with a sudden onset and rapid course?

Repair

What is the process of replacing dead or damaged cells by new healthy cells?

Hyperplasia

What is an enlargement due to an increase in the number of cells; examples are warts, tumors, and goiters?

Hydrocele

What is a collection of fluid along the spermatic cord?

Meningitis

What is an inflammation of the membranes that envelope the brain and spinal cord

(3 layered covering of the brain and spinal cord)?

Arteriosclerosis

What is the term applied to the pathological condition in which there is a thickening, hardening, and loss of elasticity of the walls of arteries?

Clinical Pathology

Pathology has to do with the study of liquid and semi-liquid specimens such as blood, fluid from certain body cavities, joint spaces, and fecal material, gastric contents, seminal fluid and saliva?

Leukocytosis

What is an elevation in the total number of circulating white blood cells?

Anemia

What term describes the condition of a less than normal number of circulating red blood cells and a decreased amount of hemoglobin per unit volume of blood?

Embolus

What is a clot or other plug brought by the blood from another vessel and forced into a smaller one so as to obstruct the circulation?

Phlebitis

What is inflammation of the veins?

Hydrocephalus

What is an abnormal increase in the amount of cerebral fluid accompanied by dilatation of the cerebral ventricles.

Osteomyelitis

What is inflammation of bone marrow?

Petechiae

What are minute hemorrhagic spots, usually of capillary origin.

Regeneration

What is the renewal or re-growth of a part?

Ascites

What is the effusion or accumulation of serous fluid in the into the peritoneal cavity?

Diagnosis

What is the art or method of identifying (naming) or recognizing a disease?

Cretinism

What is a congenital condition due to the lack of thyroid secretion, characterized by arrested physical and mental development?

Edema

When excessive fluid gathers in a tissue it is termed?

Idiopathic

A disease with no known cause is referred to as?

Etiology

The cause of a disease is termed its?

Infectious

A disease caused by the invasion of a microorganism is termed?

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

If the left ventricle of the heart cannot pump blood out as fast as it comes in from the lungs excess fluid can collect in the lung tissues, this is called?

Ulcer

If there is a continued imbalance between stomach acid produced and protective mucus produced; what may result?

A Virus

Hepatitis A and B are caused by?

Hepatitis B

Hepatitis that is transmitted through body fluids?

Hepatitis A

Infectious hepatitis that is transmitted through the fecal-oral route?

Insulin

What facilitates the movement of glucose into muscle and fat cells?

Prognosis

What is the predicted outcome of a disease?

Transport waste products for elimination

A function of the circulatory system?

Pathology

What is the study of the nature and cause of disease, which involves changes in structure and function?

Atrophy

What is a wasting or decrease in size of an organ or tissue?

Glioma

What is a malignant neoplasm of nervous tissue?

Epidemic

What is said to be present when the disease in question involves a great number of people in a community at the same time?

Cystitis

What is an inflammation of the urinary bladder?

Diabetes Mellitus

What is a disease associated with the Islets of Langerhans of the pancreas, and marked by an insufficient production of insulin?

A Virus

Poliomyelitis is caused by?

Peritonitis

What is the inflammation of the lining of the abdomen?

Passive Hyperemia

What is the accumulation of blood in a body part due to a venous obstruction?

Disease

A condition in which the structure and function of the body is altered as a result of injury to the tissue is called?

Cyanosis

What is a condition characterized by a bluish discoloration due to lack of oxygen in the blood?

Kidneys

Glomerulonephritis affects the capillaries of the?

Suppuration

The formation of pus is a process called?

Hyperthyroidism

Grave's disease is caused by?

Cell

The prefix 'cyto' mean?

Cardiomyopathy

What is a disease of the heart muscle itself?

Ischemia.

What is a local and temporary deficiency of blood supply due to obstruction of the circulation to a part?

Osteoma

What is a benign bony neoplasm?

Melanoma

What is a malignant, darkly pigmented mole or neoplasm of the skin?

Infarction

What is an area of tissue in an organ or part that undergoes necrosis following cessation of blood supply?

Disease

What is a condition that impairs the performance of a vital function in a living organism?

Etiology

What is the study of the causes of disease?

Inflammation

What is defined as a series of local reactions to injury?

Repair

What is the process of replacing dead or damaged cells by new healthy cells?

Thrombus

What is a mass formed of blood constituents within the vessels or heart during life?

Encephalitis

What is inflammation of the brain?

Myelitis

What is inflammation of the spinal cord?

Rhinitis

What is inflammation of the nasal mucosa?

Pneumoconiosis

What is a disease of the lungs caused by the inhalation of dust?

Uremia

What is defined as the terminal stage of organic or functional renal failure?

Hydronephrosis

What is enlargement of the kidney with parenchymal damage and dilation of the calyces and pelvis, almost always due to an obstruction of urinary outflow?

Hypertrophy

What is enlargement due to increase in the size of individual cells?

Hyperplasia

What is enlargement due to increase in the number of cells?

Anasarca

A generalized massive edema, affecting all parts of the body including the arms, chest wall, and genitalia, but rarely the face. i.e. pitting edema, dropsy?

Epistaxis

What is bleeding from the nose?

Hematemesis

What is vomiting of blood?

Leukocytosis

What means an elevation in the total number of circulating white blood cells?

Remission

What is the improvement, or decrease in severity of a disease?

Neoplasm

What term is a synonym for tumor?

Neuroma

A benign tumor of nervous tissue is referred to as?

Glioma

A malignant tumor of nervous tissue is referred to as?

Hemophilia

What is a hereditary disorder that lacks one of the basic clotting factors?

Phlebitis

What is inflammation of the veins?

Gastritis

What is inflammation of the stomach?

Hepatitis

What is inflammation of the liver?

Rickets

What is a disease of infancy and early childhood characterized by anemia, flabby muscles, knock knees, bowlegs, and poor formation of teeth caused by a lack of Vitamin D?

Arteriosclerosis

What is commonly referred to as 'hardening of arteries'?

Leukemia

What is a malignant cancer of circulating white blood cells and is characterized by a greatly increased number of various white blood cells, failure of the cells to reach maturity, and accumulation of these cells in organs in which they are not normally found?

Varicose Veins

What are thick walled, dilated, tortuous peripheral veins, usually in the lower extremities?

Cirrhosis

What is defined as a progressive, chronic, diffuse inflammation of the liver which is characterized by necrosis, scarring and regeneration.?

Cholangitis

What is inflammation of the bile ducts and passages within the liver?

Enteritis

What is a term indicating inflammation of the small intestine?

Benign

What is a neoplasm that grows slowly, remains localized and usually does little harm to the patient?

Hydrothorax / Pleural Effusion

What is a collection of watery fluid in the pleural cavity?

Pathology

What is the study of the morphological alterations induced by disease?

Empyema

What is purulent (pus) pleurisy?

Myxedema

What is hypothyroidism in adults?

Cushings Disease

What is an excessive secretion of adrenal cortical hormones usually due to hyperplasia of the adrenal cortex or to a functioning adrenal adenoma?

Malignant

What is a neoplasm with the ability to invade, metastasize and cause death?

Epilepsy

What is an intermittent disorder of the nervous system due to a sudden, excessive disorderly discharge of cerebral neurons?

Osteomyelitis

What is inflammation of bone?

Osteomalacia

What is the adult equivalent of rickets?

Sarcoma

A malignant tumor derived principally from connective tissue is a:

Polyuria

Excessive production of urine is known as?

General Paresis

An inflammatory condition related to the nervous system is?

Erythrocytosis

An increase in red blood cells is called?