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HaneyGenPathRev20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is predisposing factor | A condition or situation that may make a person more susceptable to disease. |
| What is a gene | The basic unit of heredity |
| What gene pairs are both dominent or both recessive in their expression of a trait | homozygous |
| When one is dominent and one is recessive | heterozygous |
| When trying to determine a persons genetic make up | genotype |
| apperance or physical characteristics | phenotype |
| changes in the structure of genes that may cause functional disturbances in the body | mutations |
| caused by mutation in a single gene | Monogenic disorder |
| A chronic generalized disease of the exocrine glands, primaraly affecting the pancreas, respiratory system , and sweat glands | cystic fibrosis |
| A rare lipid abnormally distinguished by progressive neurologic deterioration and a cherry-red spot with a gray border on both retinae | Tay-Sachs disease |
| An undersecretion of hormones from the thyroid gland | Cretinism(hyperthyroidism) |
| An inability to metabolize an essential amino acid,phenylalanine | Phenylketonuria(PKU) |
| The body produces a defective form of hemoglobin that causes red blood cells to roughen and become sickle shaped | sickle cell anemia |
| What is the bodies response to trauma, physical agents,allergies, and pathogenic organisms | inflammation |
| A condition that results from insufficent secretion of vassopression by the posterior portion of the pituitary gland | diabetes insipidus |
| A rare cancer usually present at birth | Retinoblastoma |
| A bleeding disorder caused by a deficiency of specific types of serum proteins called clotting factors | Hemophilia |
| A progressive bilateral wasting of skeletal muscles | Duchenne-type muscular dystrophy |
| Caused by abnormalities in the number of chromosomes or by changes in chromosomal structure | Chromosomal disorders |
| A condition that occurs when there is an additionl x chromosome in males | Klinefelter's syndrome |
| A conditioned caused by the loss of the x chromosomes i either the ovum or the sperm | Turner's syndrome |
| A condition in which an individual has three number 21 chromosomes instead of the normal two | Down syndrome |
| A chronic, systemic, inflamatory disease affecting the joints | Rheumatoid arthritis |
| A metabolic disturbance causing the excessive accumulation of uric acid in the body | gout |
| A disorder of carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism due to insuffient insulin production by the pancreas | Diabetes Mellitus |
| This catagory includes six major anatomic defects that cause circulatory problems | Congenital heart anomalies |
| The invasion and multiplication of pathogenic microorganisms in our the body | infection |
| single-celled organisms of many varieties | bacteria |
| smallest microorganisms | viruses |
| single-celled organisms with animale-like characteristics | protozoa |
| rod-shaped bacteria | Bacilli |
| spiral-shaped bacteria | spirilla |
| dot-shaped bacteria | Cocci |
| A group of host-requiring organisms that include external and internal parasites | parasites |
| resembles earthworms in apperance | roundworms |
| long,narrow, and they depend on two hosts, one human and one animale | tapeworm |
| small, leaf-shaped,flat, unsegmented worms | Flukes |
| The leading cause of death in the United States for people younger than 35 | physical trauma |
| what causes the brain to be jostled inside the skull | Cerebral contusions and concussions |
| often are accompanied by scalp wounds and profuse bleeding | Skull fractures |
| an acute infection causing inflammation of the upper respiratory tract | common cold |
| an acute,contagious respiratory disease characterized by fever,chills,headache,and myalgia | influenza |
| associated with HIV | AIDS |
| caused by a tick-transmitted spirochete | lyme disease |
| highly communicable disease whose diagnostic signs are fever,and an appearance of a rash | measles |
| an acute contagious disease characterized by fever and inflammation of the parotid salivary glands | mumps |
| a highly contagious disease characterized by the appearance of a distinctive rash that passes through stages of macules,papuels,vesicles,and crusts | varicella |
| an acute life-threatening infectious disease characterized by a branelike coating that forms over mucous membrane surfaces,particulary along the respiratory tract, and by a toxic reaction primaraly affecting the heart and peripheral nerves | diphtheria |
| an acute,highly infecious respiratory tract disease characterized by a repetious,paroxysmal cough and a prolonged,harsh or shrill sound during inspiration | pertussis |
| an acute,lifethreatening infecious disease by persistent,painful contractions of skeletal muscles | tetanus |
| another name for tetanus | lockjaw |
| bilateral,symmetrical,nonprogressive paralysis resulting from developmental defects of the brain or trauma at birth | cerebral palsy |
| condition marked by too much cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain | hydrocephalus |
| narrowing of the pyloris | pyloric stenosis |
| obstruction and dialation of the colon with feces as a result of inadequate intestinal motility | Hirschsprung's disease |
| nontraumatic,frequently occurring congenital deformity in which the foot is permanently bent | clubfoot |
| another name for clubfoot | Talipes |
| developmental defect of the collecting tubuels in the cortex of the kidneys | Polycstic Kidney Disease |
| also called infective tubulointerstitual nephritis, an inflammation of the kidney and renal pelvis due to infection | Pyelonephritis |
| the allergic inflammation of the glomeruli in the kidneys nephrons | glomerulonephritis |
| condition or a complex of signs and syptoms of the basement membrane of the glomerulus | nephrotic syndrome |
| gradual,progressive deterioration of kidney function | chronic renal failure |
| the rapid destruction or degeneration of the tubular segments of nephrons in the kidneys | acute tubular necrosis |
| concentration of various mineral salts in the renal pelvis or calyces of the kidney or elsewhere in the urinary tract | renal calculi |
| inflammation of the bladder | cystitis |
| inflammation of the urethra | urethritis |
| any loss or impairment of bladder function caused by central nervous system injury or by damage to nerves supplying the bladder | neurogenic bladder |
| inflammation of the oral mucosa | stomatitis |
| most common stomach ailment,consists of the inflammation and erosion of the gastric mucosa | gastritis |
| inflammation of the stomach and small intestine | gastroenteritis |
| a lesion in the musocal lining of the somach | gastric ulcer |
| inflammation of the veriform appendix | acute appendicitis |
| chronic inflammation and ulceration of the colon,often begining in the rectum or sigmoid colon and extending upward into the entire colon | ulcerative colitis |
| acute inflammation os small, pouch like herniations in the intestinal wall | diverticulitis |
| dialated,tortuous veins in the mucous membrane of the anus or rectum | hemorrhoids |
| formation or presence of stone-like masses called gallstones within the gallbladder or bile ducts | cholelithiasis |
| neoplasm,usually an adenocarcinoma, which occurs most frequently in the head of the pancreas | pancreatic cancer |
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