1. Introduction Flashcards
What is pathology?
Scientific study of the diseases, the origin and development of disease
The study of structural and
functional changes in disease.
Etiology
Study of the cause of disease
What is a disease?
A disease is a physical or structural disorder that places individual at risk.
What is disease?
A structural or functional disorder that places ind. at risk to bad consequences.
Structural disease- Organic
• Genetic diseases
• Degenerative & inflammatory
diseases
• Hyperplastic & neoplastic
Functional disease
Tension headache
Hypertension
Mental illnesses
Etiologic agent
Cause of disease—> can be caused by Bacteria, virus, heat, radiation
Diseases from birth
Congenital disease
Any other diseases
Acquired disease
Factors causing diseases
1.Internal - genetic
2. External- environmental
Factors causing disease
- External- environmental
- Internal- genetic
Pathogenisis
Pathogenesis is sequence of
events from the initial stimulus
to the ultimate expression of
the disease
Who makes the diagnosis?
Clinicians, pathologist, and radiologist
Prognosis
Future predictions
Prognosis
Futre prediction