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A&P Ch5
LCC A&P ch5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pathology | Study of disease |
| Signs | Objective abnormalities |
| Symptoms | Subjective abnormalities |
| Syndrome | Collection of different signs and symptoms that present a clear picture of a pathological condition. |
| Etiology | Objective abnormalities |
| Latent | "Hidden Stage" |
| Convalescence | Recovery |
| Pandemics | Epidemics that spread throughout the world |
| Endemic | Disease native to local region |
| Pathogenesis | Actual pattern of a disease's development |
| Viruses | the smallest of all pathogens- microscopic nonliving particles |
| Bacterium | a tiny, primatice cell without a nucleus |
| Mononucleosis | viral disease |
| Aerobic | bacteria that require oxygen for metabolism |
| Bacilli | shaped like rods |
| Fungi | lack Chlorophyll |
| Protozoa include | Amoeba one celled organism Flagellates Ciliates |
| Nematodes | Pathogenic animal,round worm |
| Platyhelminths | Pathogenic animal |
| Anthropods | Pathogenic animal |
| Sterilizition | the destruction of all living organisms |
| Oncogene | cancer gene |
| Cocci | Round cells |
| Vector | spreads diseaseto other organisims |
| Mocrobe | microscopic organism |
| Idopathic | diseases with undertermined causes |
| Epidemiology | Study of occurance. distribution, and transmission of disease |
| Remission | reversal of a chronic condition |
| Cachexia | severe loss of apetite, weight loss, and general weakness in cancer patients |
| Metastasis | spread of cancer cells |
| Metazoa | Multicellular oranism that parasitize humans |
| Neoplasm | Abnormal cell growth |