Cells
A cell has a buildup of waste. What organelle is dysfunctioning?
What are lysosomes?
What determines the direction that ions will flow through an open ion channel?
A patient comes in with a frostbitten ulcer that occurred 3 days ago on a camping trip. The site has now been infiltrated with E. coli and is swollen with copious drainage. This is considered:
What is wet gangrene?
Molecule movement from high to low solute concentration utilizing a channel protein is considered:
What is facilitated diffusion?
The breasts and uterine cells grow in number during pregnancy due to new bodily needs. This is considered:
Hyperplasia
Which organelle functions in cell communication, protection, and signaling?
What is the cell membrane?
What role do neuroglial cells play in the nervous system?
What is support neurons?
Which 2 types cell injuries are reversible?
What are fatty change and cellular swelling?
A cluster of cells are undifferentiated and rapidly growing. What kind of cells are these?
What are malignant cells?
A patient broke their left leg, and are now compensating with their right leg. Their right quadricep is now 3 cm larger. What occurred?
What is hypertrophy?
Which way will water move? (Look @ reference photo)
What is right?
One function of epithelial cells is:
Protection
Secretion
Absorption
Etc.
True or False: Necrosis is the programmed death of cells that are old, worn out, or damaged.
The genes that prevent cells from being overpopulated and control apoptosis are:
What are tumor suppressor genes?
The type of cell adaptation that is a precursor to cancer is called:
What is dysplasia?
Which type of transport utilizes the electrochemical gradient to move two molecules across a membrane in opposite directions?
What is Antiport? (active secondary transport)
Blood is what kind of tissue?
The type of radiation that is more injurious and higher energy is:
What is ionizing radiation?
The final stage of carcinogenesis where cells rapidly grow independently and begin to metastasize is called:
What is progression?
A cachectic cancer patient has had general muscular atrophy after a period of anorexia due to chemotherapy side effects. What caused this atrophy?
What is lack of nutrients?
Larger cell=uses more energy. Atrophy allows the cell to conserve energy, since the body has not had its nutritional needs met.
Is this an example of osmosis? Sodium crosses a semipermeable membrane. It goes from the side where it is least concentrated to more concentrated.
What is no?
The largest organ is made of epithelial tissue. This is:
What is the skin?
What is the name of the energy pump affected in cellular swelling?
What is the ATPase pump?
During a biopsy of a stomach tumor, the surgeon's needle pulls out some of the cancerous tissue. It then deposits in a lymph node on the needle's way out. This is considered:
What is seeding?
an inadequate blood supply to an organ or part of the body is called
What is ischemia?