Pathophysiology HOSA Test with
correct Answers 2023-2024
Pathophysiology HOSA Test with
correct Answers
Pathology - ✅the study of disease
Pathophysiology - ✅study of the physiology of disease
Syndrome - ✅a concurrence of symptoms that appear in a disease state or morbid
process
Disease - ✅absence of balance of the homeostatic state that normally exists in the
body
Hypertrophy - ✅increased size of cell or organ unrelated to tumor
Atrophy - ✅wasting of tissues, organ or the entire body
Dysplasia - ✅tissue with cells of varying size and shape
Hyperplasia - ✅increase number of cells
Metaplasia - ✅one mature cell replaced by different mature cell
Lesion - ✅circumscribed (definite area) pathologic change in the tissues
Ischemia - ✅localanemia due to mechanical obstruction of vessel
Infarction - ✅area of necrosis (dead tissue) resulting from local arrest or sudden
insufficiency of arterial or venous blood.
Inflammation - ✅fundamental pathologic process consisting of a dynamic complex of
cytologic and histologic reactions that occur in tissues and blood vessels
Metastatic - ✅shifting of disease from one part of the body to another
Benign - ✅refers to mild character of an illness or non malignant character of
neoplasm
Malignant - ✅resistant to treatment, occurring in severe form and frequently fatal
Systemic - ✅relates to entire organism as distinguished from any of its individual
parts/ wide spread symptoms and destruction
Etiology- ✅cause of disease and all factors associated with causes that lead to the
development of disease
