Mechanisms of Disease

Cellular death is also called:

• ischemia

• necrosis

• hypertrophy

• neoplasia

Signs of redness, heat, swelling, pain, and loss of motion are indicative of which of the following?

• hyperplasias

• neoplasms

• inflammation

• allergens

What term describes any individual who has an ill, thin, wasted appearance?

• hypoxia

• Cachexia

• metastatic

• anoxic

What is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention and treatment of obesity?

• Nasogastrics

• gastrics

• bariatrics

• oncology

What type of cancers move from a site of origin to a secondary site in the body?

• hematomas

• Encapsulated

• benign

• Metastatic

What is defined as any malignant tumor?

• cancer

• Appendicitis

• Encephalitis

• hematomas

The state when the immune response is too intense or hypersensitive to an environmental substance.

• allergy

• immunodeficiency

• antigen deficiency

• immune response

The state when the immune response attacks itself.

• autoimmunity

• allergic reaction

• degeneration

When a disease is present at birth it is considered

• cachexia

• inherited

• congenital

• benign

A neoplasm that is encapsulated and considered non cancerous

• metastatic

• benign

• malignant

• cancer