Pathology Basics

An abnormal alteration of structure or function in any part of the body

Disease affecting a specific organ or system

Knowledge of etiology

<p>A factor responsible for lesions or a disease state, such as a bacterium or virus</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Factors that make an individual more susceptible to a disease, such as damp weather or poor ventilation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Factors directly responsible for a disease, such as hypoxia or chemical agents</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Abnormal mass of tissue, the growth of which exceeds and is uncoordinated with that of the normal tissue and persists in the same excessive manner even after the cessation of the stimulus that evoked the change.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developmental disease</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to an increase in the size of the cells.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reversal of highly differentiated cells into a less differentiated type.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A branch of systemic pathology that deals with diseases affecting soft and hard oral tissues, including teeth</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reversible replacement of one differentiated cell type with another mature differentiated cell type.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Decrease in the size of an organ or tissue after complete formation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thickening of the stratum corneum.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attached by a stemlike or stalk base similar to that of a mushroom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Describes a lesion with borders that are not well defined, making it impossible to detect the exact parameters of the lesion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An ectopic condition in which sebaceous glands develop in the oral mucosa</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Symmetrically located most frequently in the buccal mucosa in the molar region</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A hereditary condition of the oral mucosa, which is sometimes congenital</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Grayish-white spongy areas of the oral mucosa with folds, soft upon palpation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Small, discrete, whitish swellings occurring in the gingivae of infants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>On the alveolar ridge, more commonly on the maxillary than mandibular</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Complete absence of the tongue</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Normal sebaceous glands without hair follicles</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Not easily broken or bent</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The spread of a tumor or cancer to distant parts of the body from its original site</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A relatively permanent change in hereditary material involving either a physical change in chromosome relations or a biochemical change in the codons that make up genes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It represents a hyperplasia of the tissues rather than a hypertrophy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A developmental cleft that starts from the inner canthus of the eye to the ala of the nose or upper lip</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A cleft running from the angle of the mouth towards the ear</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A condition where one side of the face is larger or smaller than the other</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>2:1 in females</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Multiple, irregular or circular, depapillated areas with fungiform papillae persisting as small elevated red dots</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emotional stress, immunosuppression, and Candidal infection</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Loss of filliform papillae, hyperparakeratosis, acanthosis, and presence of polymorphs and lymphocytes within the epithelium</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Follicles of thyroid tissue that failed to migrate to its predestined position or detached remnants left behind</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In or near the tongue base, often near the foramen caecum</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is more common in females during puberty, adolescence, pregnancy, or menopause</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A nodular, smooth surfaced mass</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lymphocytic infiltration within the connective tissue and numerous blood vessels and lymphatics</p> Signup and view all the answers