Patho Exam 1 Jeopardy

Primary Prevention

Protecting patients from a disease

Prognosis

An estimation of how well a patient will recover from an illness

Smoking

A modifiable risk factor for cardiac and respiratory disease

Epidemic

When the rates of a communicable disease are higher than anticipated

Evidence based practice

Caring for patients using the most current research and knowledge available

Organ

Fully differentiated cells and tissues with a specialized function

Atrophy

A cellular change resulting from a reduction in functional demand

Glucose tolerance test

What test is growth hormone measured as a component of?

Chemotaxis, adherence, and migration

What are the essential steps for a cellular response?

Ingestion

What is phagocytosis?

Increased blood flow to the site

What is the reason a sprained ankle is warm?

Ulceration

A complication of wound healing caused by poor perfusion

Duck blockage by gallstones

The most common cause of acute pancreatitis

30 to 50 years of age

The age of rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis

Redness, swelling, and warmth

Signs and symptoms of inflammation

CD4 lymphocytes

The cells that are lost in AIDS resulting in loss of immune response

Autoimmune response

A hypersensitivity reaction with failure to have self identification

IgA

The antibody concentrated in the body’s secretions

Older adults

The highest risk group for the influenza virus

Allograft

A graft between individuals who are not related

Septicemia

A complication of infection when pathogens enter the blood

Universal precautions

The types of precaustions where all body fluids are seen as infective

Chronic infection

Occurs when pathogens remain after the withdrawal of treatment

Streptoccus pneumoniae

The most common bacterial lung infection

Ascending infection

A common trait of urinary tract infections

Infectious agent, reservoirs, portal of exit, means of transmission, portal of entry, and susceptible host

The links in the chain of infection