Intro to Pathology

Question 1

Pathology

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The study of disease

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Aetiology

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Causal factors

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Pathogenesis

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Development of disease within body

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Pathophysiology

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Functional changes

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Sequelae

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Consequences of disease

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Infectious

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Viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites

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Physical

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Trauma, pressure, heat, cold, and radiation

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Chemical

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Toxic organic and inorganic substances. Toxins produced by infectious organisms

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Nutritional

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Deficiencies of vitamins and trace elements. Excess vitamins and trace elements.

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Genetic

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Range of defects, some are incompatible with life, others affect specific systems within the body

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Osteomyelitis

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Bacterial infection termed Lumpy Jaw

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White muscle disease

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Pale degenerate muscle cause by vitamin E or selenium deficiency

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Myofibrillar hypoplasia

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Failure of the muscle cell to develop normally

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Acute

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Sudden onset and short duration

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Outcome

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Causes death of the animal, resolves due to host defense or clinical therapy, or becomes a chronic disease

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Chronic

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Insidious onset and protracted course

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Acute Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus

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Acute pneumonia caused by respiratory syncytial virus.

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What is typical of chronic pneumonia

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Chronic inflammation and a granuloma

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Pathogenesis of disease

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Animal, agent, or environment related

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Lesions

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Abnormalities or changes due to disease in living tissues

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Clostridium chauvoei infection

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Clostridial infection which causes hemorrhages. Colonies of bacteria are present in the tissue

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Biochemistry

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Blood, urine, discharges from orifices

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Cytology

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Cells in smears, aspirates, and fluids

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Necropsy

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Gross changed in the dead body

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Histopathology

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Microscopic examination of tissues selected from the dead body after necropsy or biopsy of lesions in the living animal

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Histochemistry

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Microscopic visualization of enzymatic activity in tissues

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Immunological Methods

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Detection of specific antibodies or antigens in tissues or fluids

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Electron Microscopy

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Fine detail of the surfaces or internal structures of cells

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Bacteriology, Virology, and Parasitology

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The isolation and identification of pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and parasites

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Toxicology

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Analysis of tissues for particular poisons and toxins

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Neoplastic

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Cancerous