Tissue Changes and Aging

Question 1

Why do tissues change?

Answer 1

use, disuse, and aging

Question 2

hypertrophy

Answer 2

increase in tissue size due to increase in size of cells

Question 3

hyperplasia

Answer 3

increase ini size of a tissue via increase in number of cells (undergoing mitosis)

Question 4

neoplasia

Answer 4

increase in size of tissue, out of control growth, rapid, tumor

Question 5

atrophy

Answer 5

decrease in size of a tissue due to age, either by number of cell size