Characteristics of Disease
Considered to be objective indicators of a disease.
What is signs?
Under normal conditions ________ is maintained within the body with regards to factors such as blood pressure, body temperature, and fluid balance.
What is homeostasis?
Any factor that creates a significant change in the body or environment.
What is stressors?
A decrease in the size of cells, resulting in a reduce tissue mass.
What is Atrophy?
The craving for nonfood substances such as clay.
What is pica?
Are the clinical evidence or effects, the signs and symptoms, of disease.
Involves the study of functional or physiologic changes in the body that result from disease processes.
What is Pathophysiology?
Each person may _______ stressors differently.
What is perceive?
When a group of cells die and cause further damage because of cellular distegration.
What is Necrosis?
Found in older buildings, where it was used for insulation.
What is asbestos?
A_____ disease is often a milder condition that develops gradually but that persists for a long time and usually causes more permanent tissue damage.
What is chronic?
The goal is to protect healthy people from developing a disease or experiencing an injury in the first place.
What is primary prevention?
Also known as the general adaptation syndrome.
What is fight or flight concept.
Occurs when one mature cell type is replaced by a different mature cell type.
What is Metaplasia?
Lead and Mercury.
What are examples of heavy metals?
An___ disease indicates a short-term illness that develops quickly with marked signs.
What is acute?
A treatment, procedure, or an error may cause a disease.
What is Iatrogenic?
What is endorphins?
When part of the heart muscle dies and that area can no longer contract to pump blood.
What is infarction?
What are sources of toxic inhalants?
A collection of signs and symptoms, often affecting more than one organ, that usually occur together in response to a certain condition.
What is syndrome?
These are examples of....
1. Be a nonsmoker and avoid secondhand smoke.
2. Protecting yourself and family from the sun.
3. Eat 5 to 10 servings of vegetables and fruit a day.
What is Seven Steps to Health?
The body's defenses are mobilized by activation of the hypothalamus, sympathetic nervous system, and adrenal glands.
What is alarm stage?
This process typically occurs in a myocardial infarction when lack of oxygen causes cell death.
What is coagulative necrosis?
Includes x-rays, gamma rays, as well as particles such as protons and neutrons.
What are ionizing radiation examples.