NUR 2063 Exam 3
- Etiology
Answer cause or reason for the event.
- May include agents, age, gender, health, nutritional status, genetics, etc.
- Iatrogenic
Answer unintended effect of a medical treatment
- Pathogenesis
Answer development and evolution of a disease
- Affected by time, quantity, location, and morphologic changes
- Homeostasis
- Dynamic process
Answer
- The relative consistency of the body's internal processes
- Give and take system
- Equilibrium is necessary for all cells
- Cachexia
- Extreme weight loss disorder
Answer
- Benign tumor
- Slow, progressive, localized, well defined, resembles host (more differentiated), grows by
Answer
expansion, does not usually cause death 1 / 2
- Malignant tumor
- Rapid growing, spreads (metastasis) quickly, fatal, highly undifferentiated
Answer
- Primary prevention
Answer do not have the disease and are trying to prevent it (vac- cines)
- Secondary Prevention
Answer Disease detection (yearly physical)
- Tertiary Prevention
Answer trying to prevent problems from the disease (rehab)
- Function of the Mitochondria
- Power plant
Answer
- Aerobic respiration, ATP
- Contains own DNA and ribosomes
- Osmosis
Answer movement of water across a semipermeable membrane from an area of low concentration to high concentration.
- Diffusion
Answer net movement of anything from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration.
- Edema
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