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Pathology (Lecture 1)
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 2
08/21/2009

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Define pathology
Definition
The study of disease
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What is a pathologist?
Definition
One who studies disease and is responsible for diagnosis and etiology.
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What is one example of anatomic pathology?
Definition
Necropsy exam or surgical mass
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What is clinical pathology?
Definition
Evaluation of blood and bodily fluids
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What is a pathogen?
Definition
Any infectious organism that can cause disease.
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Define disease
Definition
Any alteration from a normal state of health
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Define necrosis
Definition
The morphological changes indicative of cell death caused by enzymatic degradation.
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Define ischemia
Definition
Deficiency of blood (lack of oxygen) due to functional constriction or actual construction of blood vessel
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Define infarct
Definition
A localized area of ischemia in which necrosis has set in.
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Define histopathology
Definition
Evaluating tissues with a microscope to study the minute structure and composition.
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Chronic ulerative gastritis is what type of diagnosis?
Definition
Morphological Diagnosis
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If a DVM says, "This patient has NSAID toxicity," what kind of diagnosis is this?
Definition
Etiologic Diagnosis
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What are the four classifications (according to Dr. O) of prognosis?
Definition
Good, Guarded, Poor, and Grave.
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True or false: Technicians can give a prognosis
Definition
FALSE!
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Define preventative medicine
Definition
The science of preventing disease in animals
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What three categories is preventative medicine broken into?
Definition
Husbandry, Vaccination/medical prevention, and Sanitation.
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What three components is husbandry consist of?
Definition
Diet, housing, and environment.
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List five zoonotic diseases and their route of transmission. (Answer not provided, pg number is provided)
Definition
See pg 159-160 in Sirois. (Sorry I was not going to list them all out.)
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Define epidemiology.
Definition
Study of occurrences of disease and the risk factor that cause disease in a population.
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What are the five categories of etiology?
Definition
Genetic, congenital, acquired, idiopathic, and iatrogenic.
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A cat is born with von Willebrands disease. What type of etiology category does this fall in? (genetic, congenital, acquired, idiopathic, or iatrogenic)
Definition
Genetic (Inherited)
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A chicken develops Crooked toe disease at birth, what etiologic category does this fall under? (genetic, congenital, acquired, idiopathic, or iatrogenic)
Definition
Congenital (At time of birth, not gene defect)
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A dog gets hypothermia from being left in the snow... What etiology category does this fall in? (genetic, acquired, congenital, idiopathic, or iatrogenic)
Definition
Acquired (Caused by environmental issues)
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Unexplained colic falls into what etiologic category? (genetic, congenital, acquired, iatrogenic, or idiopathic)
Definition
Idiopathic... no known cause.
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A kitten has a severe anaphalactic reaction to its first rabies vax. Quick! What etiology category is this AND how old are kittens when they get their first rabies shot?
Definition
Iatrogenic and kittens are 12-14 weeks old when they should receive first rabies vax... but that was from Sx notes.
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Define symbiosis
Definition
The biological association of two animals or populations of different species living together.
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What is parasitism?
Definition
Symbiosis in which a population or individual adversely affects another, and CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT IT!!!
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What is commensalism?
Definition
Symbiosis in which one population (usually the smaller of the two) is benefited and the other is neither harmed or benefited.
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What is mutualism?
Definition
Symbiosis in which both individuals are benefited. (Everybody's happy!)
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What's a virus?
Definition
Pathogen that is genetic material (RNA or DNA) surrounded by a protein coat.
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True or False: Viruses can have an envelope
Definition
True
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True or False: A virus doesn't need a host to replicate
Definition
False
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Coccus, bacillus, and spirillum are types of what infectious agent?
Definition
Bacteria
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True or false: Bacteria is never unicellular.
Definition
False: Bacteria is usually unicellular.
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What is the difference between protozoan parasites and metazoan parasites?
Definition
Protozoan are unicellular and metazoan are multicellular.
Term
True or False: Fungi have chlorophyll.
Definition
False
Term
Fungi must survive as *blank* (dependent on a host) or *blank* dependent on the remains of dead organisms.
Definition
Parasites, saprophytes
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