Environmental pathology — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ is the replacement of damaged tissue with fibrous scar

Answer: Repair

Flashcard 2: _____ is a cutaneous disorder caused by Pseudomonas sp. that is described as rapidly progressive, necrotic cutaneous lesions.

Answer: Ecthyma Gangrenosum

Flashcard 3: Chronic hemolysis can lead to iron deposition in the kidney (this process is known as _____)

Answer: hemosiderosis

Flashcard 4: What type of hypersensitivity reaction are hemolytic disease of the newborn and transfusion reactions? _____

Answer: Type II HSR (cellular destruction)

Flashcard 5: Infarction and/or neoplasm of the blood-brain-barrier destroys endothelial cell tight junctions, causing _____

Answer: vasogenic edema

Flashcard 6: When HLA typing, the purpose of the Microcytotoxicity test is to test for MHC class _____

Answer: I (ex HLA-A, HLA-B)

Flashcard 7: _____ involves the controlled proliferation of stem cells and differentiated cells

Answer: Hyperplasia ((hypertrophy or hyperplasia))

Flashcard 8: fat necrosis (breast)

Answer: fat necrosis and saponification following trauma (often mild or unremarkable trauma)

Extra: painless breast lump

Flashcard 9: The subtypes of fibrocystic disease of the breast are _____, _____, _____, and _____.

Answer: fibrosis

Flashcard 10: aplasia (organogenesis)

Answer: absent organ despite present primordial tissue