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| what is cellular atrophy? |
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| decrease in the size of a cell due to decreased workload |
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| what is cellular hyperplasia? |
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| increase in cell numbers. occurs in cells that are capable of mitotic division ex. epithelial .responce to a stimulus ex. wound healing |
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| examples of cellular injury |
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| hypoxia(deprives cell of o2), physical agents, chemical agents, bioligic agents(virus), radiation, nutrition imbalance |
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| what is cellular hypertrophy? |
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| increase in cell size due to increase in workload |
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| what is cellular dysplasia? |
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| deranged cell growth with various shapes and sizes. could be associated with inflammation or irritation. can be precursor to cancer |
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| What is cellular metaplasia |
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| reversable change where one type of adult cell is replaced by another adult cell type. occurs to chronic irritation or inflammation |
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| a cell that is deprived of oxygen and interrupts metabolism and ATP production.caused by amnt of O2 in the air, respitory disease, anemia ect |
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| dead cells, rotten tissue. nuclease most noticed, loose function of dead area, enzymes produced. |
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| decreased blood supply due to functional constriction or obstruction of a blood vessel |
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| cell suicide. eliminates cells that are worn out, have been overproduced or have genetic damage. enzyme degrade the cell to make it a target for phagocytosis |
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| What cancer causes deaths in women? |
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| #1 lung #2 breast #3 colon/rectum |
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| what cancer causes deaths in men? |
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| #1 lung #2 prostate #3 colon/rectum |
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| What are the warning signs of cancer? |
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| change in bowel or bladder, lumps, sore throat, chronic indigestion, swallowing problems, wound that doesnt heal, change in mole or wart |
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| systematic treatment that enables drugs to kill rapidly proliferating cells. supress bone marrow leading to anemia, neutropenia causes depressed imuune function, thrombocytopenia leads to bleading. also nausea , fatigue, ect |
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| ionizes radiation to molecules immediately killing cells or delaying cell cycle. dangerous to bone marrow, rapidly proliferating cells, and mucosal lining of gi tract. infection, bleeding, anemia nausea and vomiting and sublethal injury. |
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| systemic, life threatening hypersensitivity reaction characterized by widespread vasodilation that leads to a fall in blood pressure, airway constriction. Obstruction of upper airway is biggest concern. |
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| what lab tests are used to identify autoimmune disorders? |
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| serologic testing- antibodies against tissue antigens or cell components. also clinical findings help diagnose |
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| what are common infections that those with AIDS aquire |
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| pneumonia, TB-examination of sputum,bronchoscopy, thrush, herpes, aids dementia |
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| retrovirus that carries its genetic material on RNA. Replication occurs in 8 steps. |
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| what occurs during inflammation |
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| earliest reaction. redness, swelling,pain, heat, discomfort |
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| manifestations of inflammation |
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| vasodialation, increase of capillary permeability, influx of inflammatory cells(neutrophils) = some times fever. |
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| cellular changes of acute inflammation |
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| vasodialation, increased capillary permeability, influx inflammatory cells |
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| celluar changes of chronic inflammation |
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| due to infiltration with macrophages, lymphocytes and fibroblasts lead to persistant inflammaiton, fibroblast proliferation and scar formation |
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| how does autoimmune disease happen |
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| it is not known, but both inheritance of genes and enviornmental factors play a part. gender also plays a role suggesting estrogen. |
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| how does inflammation protect the body |
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| vasoconstriction, vasodialation, leukocytes, |
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| what is the patho of disk |
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| the nucleus puoposus is squeezed out of place and herniate through the annulus fibrosus |
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| how can u asses for carpal tunnel syndrome and explain the pathology? |
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| characterized by pain and numbness of the thumb and first two and one half digits of the hand, pain in the wrist and hand which worsens at night. Compression of the median nerve by the transverse carpal ligament |
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| acute immune mediated polyneuropathy characterized by rapidly progressive limb weekness and loss of tendon reflexes, flaccid paralysis. sometimes a acute influenza like illness before symptoms. facial flushing, sweating and urinary retention, pain.rapid development of ventilatory failure and threaten circulatory function |
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