Defining Disease

Question 0

What is consider to be secondary disease?

Answer 0

Disease is due to a complication or manifestation of some underlying lesion.

Question 1

What is considered to be primary disease?

Answer 1

Disease has no apparent cause.

Essential: idiopathic, spontaneous, cryptogenic

Question 2

Distinguish between acute and chronic disease?

Answer 2

Acute: rapid onset followed by rapid resolution. May not recover completely.
Chronic: may follow acute response and have prolonged course lasting months and years.

Question 3

Distinguish between benign and malignant tumours?

Answer 3

Benign: remains localised and does not spread to other tissues. Rarely fatal.
Malignant: invade and spread from their origin and are completely fatal (metastasis)

Question 4

Define the following prefixes:
Ana
Dys

Answer 4

Ana- absence

Dys- disordered

Question 5

Define the following suffixes:
Osis 
Oid
Plasia
Opathy

Answer 5

Osis- abnormal increase
Oid- baring a resemblance to rheumatoid disease plasia- disorder of growth
Opathy- abnormal state lacking specific characteristics

Question 6

What is the classification of disease most commonly based on?

Answer 6

The mechanism of a disease

Question 7

What is pathogenesis?

Answer 7

Mechanism through which aetiology operates to produce pathological and clinical manifestations

Question 8

Symptoms of Crushing’s disease.

Answer 8

Obesity, hypertension, thinning of skin that bruises easily. Reddish-purple stretch marks on the thighs, stomach, buttocks, arms, legs or breasts.
Due to too much adenocoticotropic hormone (ACTH).