Question | Answer |
Objective abnormalities that can be seen by someone other than the patient are called? | Signs |
Abnormalities felt only by the patient are called? | Symptoms |
Diseases that persit for a short amount of time and then disappear are called? | Acute |
Diseases that develop slowly and last a long period of time are called? | Chronic |
A disease that is passed from person to person is called? | Communicable |
What is it called in an infectious disease when it takes time to build up? | Incubation |
Remission means? | Stable |
The study of the occurrence, distribution, and transmission of disease in humans is called? | Epidemiology |
When a disease spreads locally in a native region it is called? | Endemic |
When a disease spreads in your local community it is called? | Epidemic |
When a disease spreads world wide it is called? | Pandemic |
What are the four factors that may play a role in disease? | Nutrition, Age, Gender, Socioeconomic |
Name three mechanisms of disease? | Genetic Mechanism, Infectious Mechanism, and Neoplastic Mechanism |
An organism that lives in or on another organism to obtain its nutrients is called? | Parasite |
A condition that may take the development of a disease more likely to occur? | Predisposing |
What are the risk factors of disease? | Genetic Factors, Age, Lifestyle, and Preexisting Conditions |
Intracellular parasites that consist of a nucleic acid core surrounded by a protein coat is known as what? | Virus |
Pathogenic proteins that convert normal proteins into abnormal proteins? | Prion |
Mad Cow Disease? | BSE |
Diseases that are rare and fatal conditions characterized by degeneration of brain tissue and progressive loss of nervous system function? | BSE AND vCJD |
What is a tiny primitive cell without a nucleus? | Bacterium |
Requires oxygen for their metabolism? | Aerobic |
Requires an absence of oxygen? | Anaerobic |
What are the ways to classify bacteria? | Growth Requirements, Staining Properties, Shape and Size |
When bacteria is stained purple it is? | Gram-positive |
When bacteria is not stained purple it is? | Gram-negative |
What are the three shapes of bacteria? | Round, Rod and Curved |
Large, rod shaped cells found singly or in groups? | Bacilli |
Large round bacteria found singly, pairs, or strings? | Cocci |
What causes Rocky Mountain Fever? | Rickettsia |
What are hard to get rid of and reproduce? | Spores |
One celled organisms that are larger than bacteria and whose DNA is organized in a nucleus. Also spreads in water? | Protozoa |
What are the three major groups of pathogenic animals? | Nematodes, Platyhelminths, and Arthropods |
What is it called when disease spreads without sickness? | Vector |
What are some ways pathogens can spread? | Person-to-Person Contact, Environmental Contact, Opportunistic Invasion, and Transmission by Vector |
What are the methods to prevent the spread of pathogens? | Sterilization, Disinfecting, and Isolation |
Neoplasms are what? | Tumors |
Benign means? | Stable |
Malignant means? | Spreading |
What are two benign tumors that arise from epithelial tissue? | Papilloma and Nevus |
What are three benign tumors that arise from connective tissue? | Lipoma, Osteoma, and Chondroma |
What are malignant tumors that arise from epithelial tissues? | Carcinoma |
What are two carcinomas that arise from epithelial tissues? | Melanoma and Adenocarcinoma |
Malignant tumors that arise from connective tissues are? | Sarcomas |
What are the four sarcomas that arise from connective tissues? | Lymphoma, Osteosarcoma, Myeloma, and Fibrosarcoma |
What are the five causes for cancer? | Genetic Factors, Carcinogens, Age, Environment, and Viruses |
What is carcinogen? | Chemical that causes cancer |
What are the four methods to help determine cancer? | Self Examination, Diagnostic Imaging, Blood Test, and Biopsy |
What is known as portable outcome? | Prognosis |
What is chemical therapy called? | Chemotherapy |
What are the four treatments for cancer? | Chemotherapy, Radiation Therapy, Laser Therapy, and Immunotherapy |
A combination of processes that attempt to minimize injury to tissues? | Inflammatory Response |
What are the four signs of inflammatory response? | Redness, Heat, Swelling, and Pain |
When tissues are damaged due to inflammation they release inflammation mediators called what? | Histamine, Prostaglandins, and Kinnins |
Kinnins do what? | Intensifies Reaction |
Edema is also known as what? | Swelling |
The movement of white blood cells in response to chemical attractants? | Chemo taxis |
Local Inflammation? | Remains Isolated |
Systematic Inflammation? | Spreads throughout the body |
Example of systematic inflammation? | Fever |