GROWTH AND DISTURBANCES AND TUMOR PATHOLOGY Flashcards
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this is a congenital absence of an organ or part
agenesis
this is defective development or production of a tissue or organ
aplasia
is sometimes used to mean that there is no tendency to form new tissue, as in failure to regenerate bone marrow in aplastic anemia
aplastic
means underdevelopment or incomplete growth of a tissue or organ, usually this is associated with decreased number of cells.
hypoplasia
failure of organ to reach normal size
hypoplasia
implies a presemce of rudimentary organ due to failure to grow
aplasia
means absence or closure of a normal body opening
atresia
if there is no external anal opening
atresia ani
Forms of developmental anomalies:
- agenesis
- aplasia
- hypoplasia
- atresia
Acquired defects/Anomalies:
- atrophy
- hypertrophy
this refers to an acquired local reduction in size of a cell, tissue, organ, or region of the body. May be physiological or pathological.
atrophy
is also termed as complete atrophy
involution
Pathological atrophy:
- nutritional atrophy
- vascular atrophy
- disuse atrophy
- pressure atrophy
- hormonal atrophy
- miscellaneous atrophy
during starvation or malnutrition
nutritional atrophy
in localized loss or deprived blood supply
vascular atrophy
due to lack or reduction of usual functional activity
disuse atrophy
a persisting pressure in an organ or tissue may contribute to ischemia of an area being pressed or pushed
pressure atrophy
loss of endocrine stimulation from trophic hormones
hormonal atrophy
as seen in some metabolic, neoplastic, genetic and infectious diseases.
miscellaneous atrophy
some classical examples of atrophy:
- Withered or shrunken limb
- involution of the normal corpus luteum
- pressure atrophy
- disuse atrophy
- serous atrophy of fat
a classic response of muscle to denervation
withered or shrunken limb
may be considered complete atrophy
involution of the normal corpus luteum
pressure results in a slow localized loss of cells though degeneration and necrosis, as when an expanding testicular tumor presses on surrounding seminiferous tubules, causing pressure atrophy
pressure atrophy
as a result of nutritional deficiency or starvation leads to marked reduction in muscle mass
emaciation