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This means it causes disease.
What is virulence?
Coping is best defined as the process of _______________.
What is managing stressful challenges?
This hormone enhances myocardial contractility.
What is epinephrine?
Stress-induced catecholamine release from the adrenal medulla may result in this.
What is elevated BP?
stress-induced stimulation of the adrenal cortex causes it to secrete this.
What is cortisol?
A patient with elevated β-endorphins should be monitored for this.
What is pain inhibition?
a tumor of the adrenal medulla predominantly releases this hormone causing increased BP and increased anxiety.
What is norepinephrine?
This is tissue growth that is cancerous.
What is a malignant tumor?
This is the most abundant class of antibody.
What is IgG?
The predominant phagocyte of early inflammation is the
What is Neutrophil?
This cell type would be the first to aide in killing bacteria to prevent infection in puncture wound.
What is Neutrophils?
This lab should be checked in response to a parasite.
What is eosinophils?
Stress induces sympathetic stimulation of the adrenal medulla causing the secretion of these catecholamines
What is epinephrine and norepinephrine?
This physiologic response would be expected in a hormone-secreting tumor of the adrenal cortex.
What is increased incidence of gastric ulcers?
These are the characteristics of malignant tumors.
What is cells vary in size and shape?
This is responsible for initiating clonal selection.
What is antigens?
This is a tumor of the breast glandular tissue.
What is adenocarcinoma?
The end product of the clotting system is this
What is fibrin?
This disease state results from the secretion of toxins by bacteria.
What is Tetanus?
______ and _________ are examples of inflammation as an etiology for cancer development.
What is ulcerative colitis and colon cancer?
Epstein-Barr virus in an immunocompromised patient is most likely to cause a development of this type of cancer.
What is B-cell lymphoma?
This immune reaction occurs when the maternal immune system becomes sensitized against antigens expressed by the fetus.
What is alloimmune?
This type of chemo therapy is uses after surgical removal of a tumor.
What is adjuvant?
The most common route of metastasis is through the _______ and ________.
What is blood vessels and lymphatics?
A patient who has natural exposure to an antigen or receives an immunization will develop this type of immunity.
What is active?
This is an excessive or inappropriate response of the immune system to a sensitizing antigen.
What is hypersensitivity?
This common symptom should be assessed in individuals with immunodeficiency.
What is recurrent infections?
serum sickness is an example of immune-complex-mediated disease
What is serum sickness?
This type of reaction can happen more than 24 hours after the initial exposure.
What is delayed hypersensitivity?
Bacterial vaccines contain this
What is dead bacteria?
_____ _____ increases gut motility, thereby decreasing the time the bowel is exposed to mutagens and could prevent colon cancer.
What is physical activity?
This type of reaction is accompanied by itching, pain, swelling, redness and respiratory difficulties.
What is anaphylaxis?
radiation induces this genomic instability
What is facilitating new mutations?
This bacteria can cause complications of endotoxic shock like decreased blood pressure, decreased oxygen delivery, cardiovascular shock, and subsequent death.
What is gram-negative bacteria?
Endotoxins are produced by this.
What is gram-negative bacteria?
A patient with type O blood has anti- _______ antibodies.
What is A and B?
__________ replicate their genetic material inside host cells.
What is viruses?
This would most likely cause a bacterial infection, with cell membrane damage and decreased protein synthesis.
What is Exotoxin?
This cancer is likely to develp secondarily to occupational hazards.
What is mesothelioma?
Viral vaccines contain this.
What is attenuated viruses?
____________ is a skin cancer on the head and neck following years of sunbathing
What is basal cell carcinoma?
Physical barriers that offer the body protection from damage and infection are located in the ______, _______ and ______
What is the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, and genitourinary tract?
These are local responses to inflammation.
{there are 4 of them}
What is Heat, redness, pain and swelling?
Secondary lymph organs include _______, _______,_________ , and _________.
What is Peyer patches, the appendix, adenoids, and the spleen?
These types of cancers respond well to brachytherapy.
What is prostate, cervix, head and neck?
Screening tools that are epigenetically based have shown promise to diagnose these types of cancers?
{There are 4}
What is colon, breast, prostate, and bladder?
Chronic alcohol intake places a female patient at risk for cancer in these organs.
{there are 4}
What is liver, esophagus, larynx, and breast?
These are signs and symptoms consistent with acute inflammation.
{there are 5}
What is swelling, loss of function, heat, pain, and erythema?
These epigenetic modifications can result from deficient in utero nutrition causing which chronic disease.
What are diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease?