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Oedema caused by increased hydrostatic pressure or reduced plasma protein is typically a protein-poor fluid called a ____
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A______ is a focus of chronic inflammation consisting of a microscopic aggregation of macrophages that are transformed into epithelium-like cells, surrounded by a collar of mononuclear leukocytes, principally lymphocytes and occasionally plasma cells.
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3. There are _______ aspects of a disease process that form the core of pathology.
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Inflammation is a complex reaction in _______that consists mainly of responses of blood vessels and leukocytes.
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A ______ is a fluid with low protein content (most of which is albumin), little or no cellular material, and low specific gravity.
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The escape of fluid, proteins, and blood cells from the vascular system into the interstitial tissue or body cavities is known as______
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Disease process commences at the cellular level following the effect of______ and _______stimuli.
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8. Metastatic calcification occur in normal tissues whenever there is ______
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If necrotic cells and cellular debris are not promptly destroyed and reabsorbed, they tend to attract calcium salts and other minerals and to become calcified. This phenomenon is called ______
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10. _____ is a special form of necrosis usually seen in immune reactions involving blood vessels
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11. ______exposes to the fact that the cell is the unit of life
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12. Inflammation may be acute or_______.
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An _______ is an extravascular fluid that has a high protein concentration, contains cellular debris, and has a high specific gravity.
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_______ is a term that is well fixed in medical parlance but does not in reality denote a specific pattern of necrosis.
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The systemic changes associated with acute inflammation are collectively called the acute-phase response, or the systemic inflammatory response______
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16. A ______ is an inflammatory exudate rich in leukocytes
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17. Cellular adaptation is necessary to limit progression of the disease.
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18. The Greek word pathos means_____
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The_______ changes associated with acute inflammation are collectively called the acute-phase response, or the systemic inflammatory response syndrome.
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20. is a process in which a cell eats its own content
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21. Inflammatory response can be _______or chronic
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_______ is a pathway of cell death that is induced by a tightly regulated suicide program in which cells destined to die activate enzymes that degrade the cells' own nuclear DNA and nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins.
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23. _____ is also sometimes the end result of autophagy.
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24. _______ is encountered most often in foci of tuberculous infection.
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Disease process commences at the cellular level following the effect of stress and noxious______.
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26. There are_______ types of inflammation
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_______ are reactions in which the normally protective immune system damages the individual's own tissues.
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_______ is a common feature of inflammatory reactions, especially those induced by bacterial infections
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29. The systemic changes associated with acute inflammation are collectively called the____
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_________process commences at the cellular level following the effect of stress and noxious stimuli.
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_______ is the most common type of cell injury in clinical medicine and has been studied extensively in humans, in experimental animals and in culture systems
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32. There are ______types of cell death
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33. An abnormal increase in interstitial fluid within tissues is called _____
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______ is a complex reaction in tissues that consists mainly of responses of blood vessels and leukocytes.
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35. Inflammation may be acute or___
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____ is a form of necrosis in which the architecture of dead tissues is preserved for a span of at least some days
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37. Necrosis is a ______process
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38. Hypoxia is an extremely important and common cause of cell injury and______.
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39. The major causes of cell injury is _______
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40. Clinical features of inflammation were described in an Egyptian papyrus dated around ____
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_____ is devoted to the study of the structural, biochemical, and functional changes in cells, tissues, and organs that underlie disease.
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42. Excess collagen deposition in the skin form a raised scar known as_____
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43. The ability to get rid of damaged or necrotic tissues and foreign invaders is known as_____
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The morphologic appearance of necrosis is the result of______of intracellular proteins and enzymatic digestion of the lethally injured cell
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45. The causes of hypoxia include reduced blood flow called ___
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47. Disease process commences at the cellular level following the effect of stress and______.
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48. Pathology is the study of ____
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Apoptotic cells break up into fragments called_______ which contain portions of the cytoplasm and nucleus.
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50. ECM means_____
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