Nutritional diseases — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What type of cells are the following examples? _____ ,smooth muscle cells

Answer: Stable (Quiescent) (Labile, Stable, or Permanent?)

Flashcard 2: Rickets may present with _____ due to osteoid deposition at the costochondral junction

Answer: rachitic rosary

Flashcard 3: Which complement deficiency is associated with increased risk for Neisseria infection?_____

Answer: C5b-C9 (terminal complement deficiency - membrane attack complex)

Flashcard 4: Chronic hemolysis can lead to iron deposition in the kidney (this process is known as _____)

Answer: hemosiderosis

Flashcard 5: _____ stain identifies glycogen and is thus useful in identifying glycogen storage diseases

Answer: Periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)

Flashcard 6: What inherited pathology are cystine kidney stones associated with?_____

Answer: Cystinuria

Flashcard 7: Retinitis pigmentosa is an _____ retinal degeneration (acquired or inherited)

Answer: inherited

Flashcard 8: Gaucher disease is characterized by "Gaucher cells" which are lipid-laden macrophages resembling _____

Answer: crumpled tissue paper

Flashcard 9: fat necrosis (breast)

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

Extra: painless breast lump

Flashcard 10: The subtypes of fibrocystic disease of the breast are _____, _____, _____, and _____.

Answer: fibrosis