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HaneyGenPathRev-14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A disease in which there is a destructive mineralization of the bone-forming tissue? | Osteomalacia |
| What kind of fracture is one in which the bone is broken or splintered into pieces, often with fragments embedded in surrounding tissue? | Comminuted |
| What is usually caused by spinal trauma from a fall, straining, or heavy lifting? | Herniated Intervertebral disk |
| What disease is also known as Osteitis Deformans? | Paget’s Disease |
| A chronic, systemic, inflammatory disease affecting the synovial membranes of multiple joints? | Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| What is the classic manifestation of gout? | The sudden onset of excruciating joint pain, usually affecting the joints of the big toes |
| A chronic inflammatory process of the joints and bones resulting in degeneration of joint cartilage and subsequent hypertrophy of the surrounding bone? | Osteoarthritis |
| Common symptoms of this include acute pain at the affected site, muscle spasm, and perhaps hemorrhage and shock? | Fractures |
| This disease affects 5 to 10 million Americans and especially affects women who are 50 years of age or older, postmenopausal, small-boned, or who come from a Northern European, especially Scandinavian, background? | Osteoporosis |
| This disease is most often caused by trauma that result in hematoma formation and an acute bacterial infection, particularly by Staphylococcus aureus, although other viruses and fungi also may cause the condition somewhere else in the body? | Osteomyelitis |
| What are the most common used procedures to detect deformities of the spine: lordosis, kyphosis, scoliosis? | X-rays and Physical examination |
| A break in the bone with no external wound to the skin? | Closed fracture |
| The cause of this condition may be metabolic, renal, or both? | Gout |
| An abnormal sideward curvature of the spine either to the left or right? | Scoliosis |
| In the initial phase of this disease, it is marked by a high rate of bone turnover? | Paget’s Disease |
| An abnormal inward curvature of a portion of the spine, commonly called swayback? | Lordosis |
| What are the primary objectives of treatment for Rheumatoid arthritis? | To reduce inflammation and pain, preserve joint function and prevent joint deformity |
| What disease is caused by insufficient bodily stores of ineffective utilization of vitamin D? | Oseomalacia |
| RA is the abbreviation for what? | Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| What is a herniated intervertebral disk usually called? | A slipped disk |
| An abnormal outward curvature of the spine, commonly known as humpback or round back? | Kyphosis |
| A break or crack in a bone? | Fracture |
| What disease has the prevention of a calcium-rich diet? | Osteoporosis |
| What is an intervertebral disk and how many are found between each of the 33 vertebrae? | A saclike mass of cartilage; one |
| What problem may involve the treatment of bed rest, immobilization of affected part, local applications of heart or cold, and analgesics? | Gout |
| What grade of a neoplasm is when tumor cells are well differentiated, closely resembling normal parent tissue? | grade 1 |
| An acute infammation of the respiratory bronchiles, alveolar ducts, alveolar sacs, and alveoli of the lung? | Pneumonia |
| A fracture in which the bone is broken with one end forced into the interior of the other? | Impacted fracture |
| A treatment that is used in combination with radiation and chemotherapy? | Biotherapy |
| Designating a disease having rapid onset, severe symptoms, and a short course? | acute |
| infective tubulointerstitial nephritis is also known as what? | pyelonephritis |
| A chronic disorder of carbohydrate metabolism resulting from insufficeient production of insulin or from inadequate utilization of this hormone by the body's cells? | diabetes mellitus |
| characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst, which are the result of insufficient secretion of vasopressin by the posterior portion of the pituitary gland? | diabetes insipidus |
| the conventional mathod of classifying hereditary diseases is to group them into what? | monogenic or mendelian alterations, chromosomal alterations, and multifactorial errors |
| congenital disorder of the exocrine glands characterized by the production of copious amounts of abnormally think mucus, expecially in the lungs and pancreas? | cystic fibrosis |
| a bleeding disorder caused by a deficiency of specific types of serum proteins called clotting factors | hemophilia |
| environmental hazards may have an effect on what? | health |
| allergic inflammation of the glomeruli in the kidneys nephrons | glomerulonephritis |
| dome-shaped or flat-topped elevated lesion slightly reddened and often changing in size and shape, usually accompanied by intense itching | wheal |
| a disease that is formerly called presenile dementia | alzheimer's disease |
| grows slowly, remains localized, expands | benign |
| grows rapidly, cells are not well differentiated | malignant |
| enclosure in a layer of tissue not normal to the part | encapsulation |
| undescended testes is also known as what? | cryptorchidism |
| a recurrent, frequently incapacitating type of headache characterized by intense, throbbing pain often accompanied by nausea and vomitting | migraine headache |
| a suspension of infectious agents or some part of them | vaccine |
| an allergic reaction of the body to a foreign or other substance | anaphylaxis |
| inability to control the passage of urine, semen, or feces due to one or more physiological or psychological conditions | incontinence |
| AIDS is the abbreviation for what? | acquired immunodeficiency syndrome |
| human immunodeficiency virus stands for what? | HIV |
| hypersecretion of the adrenal cortex of the adrenal glands, resulting in the excess production of cortisol | cushing's syndrome |
| a condition where body weight is 10 to 20 percent above the ideal | obesity |
| malignant tumor of a gland | adenocarcinoma |
| inflammation of the three-layer membrande called the meninges that surrounds the brain and spinal cord | acute bacterial meningitis |
| a lesion in the musocal lining of the stomach | gastric ulcer |
| defects in visual acuity resulting from the inability of the eye to effectively focus light on the surface of the retina | refractive errors |
| acute contagious disease characterized by fever and inflammation of the parotid salivary glands | mumps |
| results from a loss of elaticity in the crystalline lens of the eye | presbyopia |
| urticaria is what | hives |
| an episodic inflammatory reaction of the capillaries beneath a localized area of the skin | urticaria |
| accumlation of fluid within the structure of the middle ear | otitis media |
| developmental defect of the collectine tubules in the cortex of the kidneys | polycystic kidney disease |
| any disease of the retina of the eye | retinopathy |
| infection of the boneforming tissue | osteomyelitis |
| progressive, malignant diseases of the bloodforming organs and are marked by the unrestrained frowth of abnormal leukocytes and their precursors in the blood and bone marrow | leukemias |
| a scratch on the transparent anterior cellular layer of the eye | corneal abrasion |
| a visual screening usuing a standardezed chart with block letters arranged in rows of decreasing siza | snellens chart |
| acute upper respiratory tract infection characterized by sore throat, fever, and swollen cervical lymph glands | infectious mononucleosis |
| also called systemic sclerosis | scleroderma |
| systemic inflammatory disease | rheumatic fever |
| inflammation of the oral mucosa | stomatitis |
| bilateral, symmetrical, nonprogressive paralysis resulting from developmental defects of the brain or trauma at birth | cerebral palsy |
| inflammation of the cardiac muscle | myocarditis |
| also known as infective or bacterial endocarditis | endocarditis |
| inflammation of the pericardium, the saclike membrance that wurrounds and protects the heart muscle. | pericarditis |
| undersecretion of hormomes by the thyroid gland | hypothyroidism |
| metabolic bone diease affecting 5 to 10 million americans | osteoporosis |
| an abnormal opening between the right and left atria | atrial septal defect |
| chronic disease characterized by progressive muscle rigidity and involuntary tremors | parkinsons diease |
| protrusion of some portion of the stomach into the thoracic cavity through the opening in the diaphrahm through whcih the esophagus passes | hiatal hernia |
| a condition or a complex of signs and symptoms of the basement membrane of the glomerulus | nephrotic syndrome |
| a chronic functional disease of the sebaceous glands marked by an incease in the amount and often alteration in the quality of the sebaceous secretion | seborrheic dermatitis |
| measles is also known as what | rubeola |
| german measles is another name for what | rubella |
| narrowing of the pylorus | pyloric stenosis |
| contagious superficial skin infrection marked by vesicles or bullae | impetigo |
| whooping cough is also known as what | pertussis |
| another name for tetanus is what | lockjaw |
| what is the name for the treatment provided to relieve the symptoms of a disease rather than to effect a cure | pallitive |
| lack of color | pallor |
| small red spots with bluish which centers on the oral mucosa | kopliks spots |
| a condition or situation that may make a person more suscptible to diease | predisposing factors |
| a saclike mass of catilage | intervertebral disk |
| occurs when the nucleus pulposus leaks through the wall of the disk and into the spinal canal | herniated intervertebral disk |
| diagnosed as the failure to become pregnant after one year of regulat, unprotected intercouse | infertility |
| highly infectious chronic, secually transmitted diease characterized by leasion that may involve any organ or tissue | syphilis |
| the most common stomach ailment, consists of the inflammation and erosion of the gastric mucosa | gastitis |
| the bone is partially bent and split, as a green stick or twig down when bent | greenstick fracture |
| a break in the bone with no external wound to the skin | closed fracture |
| a break in the bone in which there is an open wound leading down to the site of the fracture or in which a piece of broken bone protrudes through the skin | open/compound fracture |
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