Path: Introduction

Question 1

Pathology means study of ?

Answer 1

study of suffering

Question 2

What is Pathophysiology?

Answer 2

The study of how normal physiologic processes are affected by disease.

Question 3

What is health?

Answer 3

when the individual is in complete accord with the surroundings

Question 4

What is disease?

Answer 4

Loss of ease or comfort to the body

Question 5

What are characterized by a combination of symptoms caused by altered physiologic processes?

Answer 5

Syndromes

Question 6

What is the reaction of the individual to disease in the form of symptoms?

Answer 6

Illness

Question 7

Signs are elicited by who?

Answer 7

The clinician

Question 8

What are the characteristic changes in tissues and cells produced by disease in an individual?

Answer 8

Lesions

Question 9

Pathologic changes can be recognised with the _____________ or studied by _____________________?

Answer 9

naked eye (gross or macroscopic changes)

microscopic examination of tissues.

Question 10

Causal factors responsible for the lesions are included in _____________________ of disease?

Answer 10

etiology of disease (i.e. ‘why’ of disease).

Question 11

Mechanism by which the lesions are produced is termed _____________ of disease?

Answer 11

pathogenesis

Question 12

What helps to arrive at an answer to what is wrong?

Answer 12

Clinical significance of the morphologic and functional changes together with results of other investigations

which is the Diagnosis.

Question 13

What is prognosis?

Answer 13

what is going to happen (_____________), what can be done about it (_____________)

Question 14

What should be done to avoid complications and spread?

Answer 14

prevention

Question 15

What does General Pathology deal with?

Answer 15

general principles of disease

Question 16

What does Systemic Pathology include?

Answer 16

study of diseases pertaining to the specific organs and body systems.

Question 17

What does Surgical pathology deal with?

Answer 17

the study of tissues removed from the living body.

Question 18

What does Forensic pathology and autopsy work include?

Answer 18

the study of organs and tissues removed at postmortem for medicolegal work

Question 19

What is cytopathology?

Answer 19

Study of diseases on a cellular level

Question 20

What does Hematology deal with?

Answer 20

the diseases of blood. It includes laboratory and Clinical

Question 21

What is Molecular Pathology?

Answer 21

The detection and diagnosis of abnormalities at the level of DNA of the cell

Question 22

What has reached its zenith in the 21st Century?

Answer 22

digital pathology

with availability of technology for preparation virtual pathology slides (VPS).

Question 23

What is Etiology or cause?

Answer 23

it is the origin of the disease

it can be genetic or acquired.

Question 24

CF, Down Syndrome, Sickle cell anemia are some examples of ____________ disorders?

Answer 24

Genetic

Question 25

What is Acquired etiology/cause of disease or infection?

Answer 25

multifactorial and arise from the effects of various external developed from the study of infections and triggers on a genetically susceptible individual

Question 26

What describes the process from cause to the effect of the disease?

Answer 26

Pathogenesis

Question 27

What refers to the sequence of cellular, biochemical, and molecular events that follow the exposure of cells or tissues to an injurious agent?

Answer 27

Pathogenesis

Question 28

What are structural alterations in cells or tissues that are either characteristic of a disease or diagnostic of an etiologic process?

Answer 28

Morphological changes

Question 29

What are the two groups of Morphological changes?

Answer 29

gross anatomic and microscopic changes

Question 30

What are the end results of genetic, biochemical, and structural changes in cells and tissues?

Answer 30

Clinical manifestations

Question 31

What are signs and symptoms?

Answer 31

_________ are what clinicians see and ___________ are what the patient tells you