Exam 1

Question 1

This term is used to describe a lesion that has a wrinkled appearance

Answer 1

Corrugated

Question 2

This term describes the base of a lesion that is broad and flat

Answer 2

Sessile

Question 3

This lesion occurs predominantly in black females in their 60s and presents as a radioopaque lesion associated with the root of anterior teeth

Answer 3

Periapical cemental dysplasia (cementoma)

Question 4

Which of the following types of healing occurs when the edges of a injury can not be joined together by sutures

Answer 4

Healing by secondary intention

Question 5

This condition is a benign condition of a salivary gland characterized by painful swelling and ulceration in the area of the junction of the hard and soft palate

Answer 5

Necrotizing sialometaplasia

Question 6

This term describes the grinding and clenching of the teeth together in a nonfunctional purpose

Answer 6

Bruxism

Question 7

This term describes a mucocele that is found in the floor of the mouth that has the appearance of a frogs belly

Answer 7

Ranula

Question 8

This term describes an area that is distinguished by color differentiation from adjacent tissue and is usually flat

Answer 8

Macule

Question 9

Which of the following is not a systemic sign of inflammation

Answer 9

Lymphadenopathy

Question 10

What cells are also know as polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNS)

Answer 10

Neutrophils

Question 11

This term describes the base of a lesion that is stem or stalk-like

Answer 11

Pedunculated

Question 12

Yellow clusters of ectopic sebaceous glands found on the buccal mucosa and lip area

Answer 12

Fordyce granules

Question 13

The “white line” clinically found a long the occlusal plane of the buccal mucosa is

Answer 13

Lines alba

Question 14

A small circumscribed lesion usually less than 1cm in diameter that is elevated above the normal surrounding tissue is

Answer 14

Papule

Question 15

Another term for geographic tongue

Answer 15

Benign migratory glossitis

Question 16

The initial response of the body to injury is

Answer 16

Inflammation

Question 17

The directed movement of WBCs to an area of injury is

Answer 17

Chemotaxis

Question 18

What term is used to describe blood plasma and proteins leaving the blood vessels and entering into the surrounding tissues during inflammation

Answer 18

Exudate

Question 19

An increase in the size of an organ or tissue resulting from an increase in the number of cell is

Answer 19

Hyperplasia

Question 20

A ranula is located on the

Answer 20

Floor of the mouth

Question 21

A loss of tooth structure associated with bulimia is

Answer 21

Erosion

Question 22

The loss of tooth structure through an abnormal mechanical action is

Answer 22

Abrasion

Question 23

Which cyst results from extraction of a tooth without removing the cystic sac?

Answer 23

Dentigerous cyst

Question 24

Torus palatinus is a example of an

Answer 24

Exostisis

Question 25

This is another term for a salivary gland stone or calcification

Answer 25

Sialolith

Question 26

In this diagnostic category diagnosis can be based upon the appearance of the lesion

Answer 26

Clinical

Question 27

In this diagnostic category, diagnosis is confirmed by the use of a biopsy specimen

Answer 27

Microscopic

Question 28

This diagnostic process is considered to be the bread and butter of pathology

Answer 28

Differential

Question 29

Periapical pathosis can be diagnosed from this category

Answer 29

Radiographic

Question 30

An excessive proliferation of inflamed dental pulp tissue arising from a large carious lesion

Answer 30

Pulp polyp

Question 31

Caused from an ill-fitting denture and is located in the vestibule area adjacent to the flange of the denture

Answer 31

Epilus fissuratum

Question 32

Lesion containing multinucleated giant cells which occurs in women less than 30 years old and is located on the gingiva or alveolar ridge

Answer 32

Peripheral giant cell granuloma

Question 33

A bluish-gray lesion found on the gingiva or edentulous ridge. A PA X-RAY is a definitive diagnosis for this

Answer 33

Amalgam tattoo

Question 34

An eating disorder characterized by food binges followed by self induced vomiting

Answer 34

Bulimia

Question 35

The cells that compose 60-70% of the WBC population in inflammation

Answer 35

PMNs

Question 36

The adherence of WBCs to endothelial cells lining an injured blood vessel

Answer 36

Pavementing

Question 37

Another term used for the localized swelling of tissue that is accompanied by severe itching

Answer 37

Wheal

Question 38

A lesion that occurs at the corner of the mouth thought to be of candidiasis origin, but is responsive to vitamin therapy also

Answer 38

Angular chelitis

Question 39

An excess of thyroid tissue located in the midline of the dorsal of the tongue at the area of the foramen ceacum

Answer 39

Lingual thyroid nodule

Question 40

To feel an area with the fingers

Answer 40

Palpation

Question 41

Elevated serum alkaline phosphatase level

Answer 41

Paget's disease

Question 42

Developmental anomaly of entrapped salivary tissue located in the body of the mandible

Answer 42

Stafnes bone cyst

Question 43

Sessile nodules on the gingiva lingual to the mand. Canines. Reddish-pink in color

Answer 43

Retrocuspid papilla

Question 44

Lesion in the middling of the tongue devoid of filiform papilla

Answer 44

Median rhomboid glossitis

Question 45

Increase in the number of WBCs

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Leukocytosis

Question 46

Causes the release of his tamine

Answer 46

Complement system

Question 47

Chronic running of mucous resulting in a thickened mucosa that appears white

Answer 47

Hyperkeratosis

Question 48

Broad based lesion composed of dense CT raised above the surrounding tissue

Answer 48

Fibrom

Question 49

Increase in free and attracted gingiva covering the majority of the clinical crown

Answer 49

Gingival hyperplasia

Question 50

Another term for "dry socket"

Answer 50

Alveolar osteitis