Terms For Intro To Pathology (Test 1, Lecture 1)

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study of disease and disease process

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pathology

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study of molecular, biochemical, functional, and morphological changes in cells, tissues, or organs in response to injury

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pathology

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lask of ease, a discomfort, a departure from normal (homeostasis)

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disease

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comfort, pleasure, convenience

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eise, aise

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medical science, and specialty practice, concerned with all aspects of disease, but with special reference to the essential nature, causes, and development of abnormal conditions, as well as the structural and functional changes that result from the disease processes

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pathology

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perform necropsies, histologically evaluate tissue sections and provide clinicians with diagnosis and essential information on disease process

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diagnostic pathologists

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examine surgical biopsy specimens removed from live animals

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surgical pathologists

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type of pathologist that deals with research

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experimental pathologist

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type of pathologist that deals with toxins

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toxicologic pathologists

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perform tests on blood and other body fluids (hematology, serum chemistry, urinalysis, CSF, etc.) and examine exfoliated cells (cytology)

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clinical pathologist

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type of pathologist that deals with medicolegal pathology

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forensic pathologist

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examples of system (special) pathologists

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dermatopathologist, neuropathologists, etc.

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any deviation from or interruption of the normal structure or function of any part, organ, or system of the body that is manifested by a characteristic set of symptoms and signs and whose etiology, pathology, and prognosis may be known or unknown

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disease

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departure from normal; not just illness or sickness but includes any departure from normal form or funciton, whether it is clinically apparent or not

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disease

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pathologic condition manifested by a characteristic set of symptoms and signs and whose etiology, pathology, and prognosis may be known or unknown; better defined than syndrome

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disease

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a set of symptoms occurring together; the sum of signs of any morbid state; a symptom complex of unknown etiology

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syndrome (i.e. feline neurological syndrome)

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suffix for noninflammatory pathologic condition (term used mostly by clincians)

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-opathy

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suffix for noninflammatory pathologic process or for many etiologic diangosis

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-osis

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suffix for inflammatory process

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-itis

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primary cause; aspect of a disease process that form the core of pathology

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etiolgy

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mechanisms of development of a lestion or disease process; aspect of a disease process that form the core of pathology

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pathogenesis

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structural alterations witin cells, organs, or tissues associated with desease processes; aspect of a disease process that form the core of pathology

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morphologic changes (lesions)

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functional and behavioral consequences of morphological changes; aspect of a disease process that form the core of pathology

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clinical significance

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primary initiating 'cause' or origin of a disease or disorder as determined by medical diagnosis

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etiology

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that which brings about any condition or produces any effect; an agent, event, or condition which plays an essential role in producing an occurrence of the disease

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cause

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mechanism of how a disease deveops from its initiation to its cellular and molecular manifestations; sequence of events in the response of cells or tissues to the etiologic agent, from the initial stimulus to the ultimate expression of the disease

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pathogenesis

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study of form and structure

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morphology

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macroscopic and microscopic changes in diseased cells, tissues, and organs

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lesion

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an abnormality or interruption of nomral structure or function, or both; in diagnostic pathology, emphasis is on structural, rather than functional,alterations that are characterisitic of or diagnostic of a disease process

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lesion

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necrosis, inflammation, and neoplasia are types of this

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lesion

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diagnostic postmortem dissection and examination of an animal by a pathologoist

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necropsy

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tissue specimens form a live animal

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biopsy (considered a type of gross or macroscopic pathology but then histopathological [microscopic] tests are done to it)

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abnormalities of cell, tissue, organ, system, and organism result in functional and behavioral derangements manifested as clinical signs

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clinical significance

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generally subjective, experienced and described by patient (i.e. chills, fever, nausea vertigo, etc.)

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symptom

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objective, seen by observer (doctor) (high temperature, increased pulse, low BP, etc.)

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clinical sign

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clinical, morphologic, etiologic, and disease are types of this

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diagnosis

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descriptive name for a lesion or disease process; encompasses time frame, severity, distribution, pathologic process, organ affected but doesn't tell you the cause

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morphologic diagnosis

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proclaim an etiologic agent of disease

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etiologic diagnosis

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this time names the disease

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disease or definitve diagnosis

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a morphological diagnosis or a definitive dx derived from pathologist's findings of morphologic changes characteristic of a particular disease

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'anatomical diagnosis'

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exercise of listing (in an orderly fashion) all the possible diagnoses of a given condition

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differential diagnosis

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"coming sharply to a climax"; changes occuring rapidly; does not mean severe, although may be severe; minutes to days

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acute

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long-lasting; weeks to months to years; microscopically defined as fibrosis

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chronic

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"not very acute"; imprecise but handy to describe certain clinical situations

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subacute

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observation, recognition, description, interpretations, and diagnosis are types of this

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examination of pathological changes

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gross lesion description

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TeN DiSCSPaCeS
T=tissue name, texture
N=number of lesions
D=distribution and demarcation of lesions
S=size of lesion (metric)
C=consistency
S=shape
P=pattern, position
C=color
S=special features