Anatomy Answers

Studying Disease & Pathophysiology

Define the following terms:

1. Pathogenesis is the pattern of a disease’s development.

2. Remission is when a chronic disease shows a change in temperature (reversal) that looks to be a recovery.

3. Epidemiology is the “study of occurrence, distribution, and transmission of diseases in humans”.

4. Pathophysiology is the study about the main physiological processes of diseases.

Compare and contrast the following terms:

1. Signs vs. Symptoms

a. Comparisons:

i. They are both characterized as abnormalities.

b. Contrasts:

ii. Signs can be seen by someone other than the person who has it.

iii. Symptoms can only be felt by the person.

2. Acute vs. Chronic

c. Comparisons:

iv. Nothing is really similar about these two except for the signs and the symptoms appearing.

d. Contrasts:

v. Signs and symptoms appear suddenly and disappear after little time in acute diseases.

vi. Signs and symptoms develop at a slow pace and take a long time to go away. They might stay for the rest of your life.

3. Casual vs. Coincidental

e. Comparisons:

vii. Help determine the pathogenesis.

f. Contrasts:

viii. Casual has a cause and effect.

ix. Coincidental doesn’t have a cause and effect.

4. Prevention vs. Treatment

g. Comparisons:

x. Both help fight the disease.

h. Contrasts:

xi. Prevention even more effective disease fighting strategy.

xii. Therapy is an on-going search for treatments of a certain disease.

5. Morbidity vs. Morality

i. Comparisons:

xiii. Help with epidemiology.

j. Contrasts:

xiv. Morbidity is information on disease rates in a certain group of people.

6. Mechanisms of disease:

k. Genetic Mechanism

xv. Altered genes that cause a different structure and function than...