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| One who studies disease and is responsible for diagnosis and etiology. |
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| What is one example of anatomic pathology? |
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| Necropsy exam or surgical mass |
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| What is clinical pathology? |
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| Evaluation of blood and bodily fluids |
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| Any infectious organism that can cause disease. |
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| Any alteration from a normal state of health |
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| The morphological changes indicative of cell death caused by enzymatic degradation. |
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| Deficiency of blood (lack of oxygen) due to functional constriction or actual construction of blood vessel |
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| A localized area of ischemia in which necrosis has set in. |
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| Evaluating tissues with a microscope to study the minute structure and composition. |
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| Chronic ulerative gastritis is what type of diagnosis? |
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| If a DVM says, "This patient has NSAID toxicity," what kind of diagnosis is this? |
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| What are the four classifications (according to Dr. O) of prognosis? |
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| Good, Guarded, Poor, and Grave. |
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| True or false: Technicians can give a prognosis |
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| Define preventative medicine |
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| The science of preventing disease in animals |
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| What three categories is preventative medicine broken into? |
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| Husbandry, Vaccination/medical prevention, and Sanitation. |
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| What three components is husbandry consist of? |
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| Diet, housing, and environment. |
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| List five zoonotic diseases and their route of transmission. (Answer not provided, pg number is provided) |
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| See pg 159-160 in Sirois. (Sorry I was not going to list them all out.) |
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| Study of occurrences of disease and the risk factor that cause disease in a population. |
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| What are the five categories of etiology? |
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| Genetic, congenital, acquired, idiopathic, and iatrogenic. |
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| A cat is born with von Willebrands disease. What type of etiology category does this fall in? (genetic, congenital, acquired, idiopathic, or iatrogenic) |
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| A chicken develops Crooked toe disease at birth, what etiologic category does this fall under? (genetic, congenital, acquired, idiopathic, or iatrogenic) |
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| Congenital (At time of birth, not gene defect) |
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| A dog gets hypothermia from being left in the snow... What etiology category does this fall in? (genetic, acquired, congenital, idiopathic, or iatrogenic) |
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| Acquired (Caused by environmental issues) |
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| Unexplained colic falls into what etiologic category? (genetic, congenital, acquired, iatrogenic, or idiopathic) |
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| Idiopathic... no known cause. |
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| A kitten has a severe anaphalactic reaction to its first rabies vax. Quick! What etiology category is this AND how old are kittens when they get their first rabies shot? |
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| Iatrogenic and kittens are 12-14 weeks old when they should receive first rabies vax... but that was from Sx notes. |
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| The biological association of two animals or populations of different species living together. |
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| Symbiosis in which a population or individual adversely affects another, and CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT IT!!! |
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| Symbiosis in which one population (usually the smaller of the two) is benefited and the other is neither harmed or benefited. |
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| Symbiosis in which both individuals are benefited. (Everybody's happy!) |
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| Pathogen that is genetic material (RNA or DNA) surrounded by a protein coat. |
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| True or False: Viruses can have an envelope |
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| True or False: A virus doesn't need a host to replicate |
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| Coccus, bacillus, and spirillum are types of what infectious agent? |
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| True or false: Bacteria is never unicellular. |
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| False: Bacteria is usually unicellular. |
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| What is the difference between protozoan parasites and metazoan parasites? |
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| Protozoan are unicellular and metazoan are multicellular. |
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| True or False: Fungi have chlorophyll. |
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| Fungi must survive as *blank* (dependent on a host) or *blank* dependent on the remains of dead organisms. |
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