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A&P Ch5
LCC A&P ch5
Question | Answer |
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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 |