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| increase in number of cells resulting in hypertrophy of an organ |
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| increase in the size of the cells in an organ due to an increase in the amount of proteins |
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| decrease in the size of an organ usually from the loss of nutrients or use |
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| replacing one cell type with another type that is more fit to withstand a constant irritant |
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| caused by faulty genetic information |
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| one that tends to run in families, some are genetic and some are from upbringing |
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| something you are born with, not always genetic could be from injury in womb as in Fetal Alcohol syndrome |
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| caused by degneration of the organ or tissue |
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| caused by an abnormal process of the immune system |
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| caused by uncontrollable cell proliferation, tumor, can be malignant or benign |
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| caused from a problem with metabolism, usually genetic |
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| caused by a nutritional imbalance |
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| produced inadvertently from being treated for an initial disease |
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| disese we do not know the cause of |
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| sequence of events that occur in the development of the disease |
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| purely subjective, only patient can see or know there is a problem |
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| something that others can see is wrong |
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| decrease in intensity of a disease |
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| secondary problem caused from initial problem |
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| persisting aftereffect from the first problem even after its gone |
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| functional cells of an organ |
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| supportive cells of an organ |
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| process by which damaged tissues are restored toward normal |
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| complete restoration of function to an organ |
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| lack of adequate levels of oxygen |
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| hypoxia, trauma, infectious agents, chemicals, toxins, nutrion, immunologic attack |
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| stage of great variability in size, shape, and function |
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| partial failure to develop mornally |
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| total lack of development |
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| total lack of development |
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| 1st sign of cell injury, cytoplasm takes on cloudy appearance and swell the cell |
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| little vacuoles appear in cytoplasm |
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| abnormal substance in cell that makes the organ take on a yellow-brown appearance if damaged heavily, left after the break down of organelles |
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| has a pink wax-papery appearance like a scar |
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| refers to accumulation of fat in the cytoplasm, very ominous sign |
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| casued when kidney cannot excrete calcium or all salts are precipitated out, hardens an organ |
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| calcification that occurs in ducts and causes a stone to form |
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| cooling to environmental temperature |
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| gravity pulls blood into pools in the body a few hours after death |
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| tightening of muscles as the sarcoplasmic reticulum releases Ca during deterioration |
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| very dense and intense staining as DNA condenses into a solid shrunken mass |
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| bursting of the nucleus into fragments |
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| lyses of the nucleus, fading of chromatin |
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| area of dead organ while the rest remains functional |
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| infection where leukocyes digest the organ and leave a pussy hole |
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| cheese-like yellowish buildup |
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| immune reaction with blood vessels in which antigens are deposited in arterial walls |
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| fat destruction from pancreas |
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| localized area of chronic inflammation |
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| calor, dolar, rubor, loss of function, tumor |
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| local reaction of tissues to injury |
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| 5 types of inflammatory mediators |
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| vasoactive, plasma factors, arachadonic acid derivatives, leukocyte products, and miscellaneous |
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| kinins, complement, and clotting factors |
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| 2 Miscellaneous mediators |
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| cytokines and PAF (platelet activating factor) |
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| cystein proteases, family of proteins known to initiate apoptosis |
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| lysosomal digestion of the cell's own components |
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| no Na pump (cell swelling), no Ca pump (calcification), ribosomal detachment (no protein synthesis, anaerobic glycolysis (drop of pH) |
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| inadequate levels of oxygen without the ability to perform anaerobic respiration |
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| not damaging, infiltrations and degenerations, and irreversible/lethal damage |
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| blood flow slows through vessels and macrophages start bouncing off the walls |
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| macrophages bind to receptors on the vessel walls |
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| capillary beds open as arterioles dilate |
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| fluid and molecules move from the capillaries to the site of injury causing swelling |
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| fluid leaving the capillary beds during inflammation has a low protein content as it is mostly plasma |
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| fluid leaving capillary beds has a high protein content and can even include cells |
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| granulated WBC that circulates in the blood, full of inflammatory mediators, not phagocytic |
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| basophil that is permanently stationed in a tissue |
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| cytotoxic portions of the complement system formed from amino acid cleavage, initiate histamine release and other inflammatory responses |
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