This document discusses cell and tissue damage from various causes and their effects. It begins by explaining prefixes, suffixes, and roots used in medical terminology. It then defines pathology and discusses basic terminology like disease, etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and prognosis. Various types of cellular adaptation and degeneration are described, including atrophy, hypertrophy, hyperplasia, metaplasia, and dysplasia. Necrosis, or lethal cell injury, is defined and the stages are outlined. Various causes of cell injury are provided like oxygen deprivation, chemicals, infections, immunological reactions, genetics, nutrition, physical agents, and aging.
2. Prefixes and Suffixes and Roots
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Root- the foundation of the word
Prefix – place before the root to modify its meaning
Suffix – places after root to modify and give essential
meaning to the root
1. Hyperlipoproteinemia
Prefix : hyper (higher)
Roots : lipoprotein
Suffix : -emia (blood condition)
4. Pathology
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Definition
Pathology is the study (logos) of suffering/diseases
(pathos)
Involves basic medical sciences and clinical practice to
investigates of the causes (etiology) of the diseases and
the mechanism (pathogenesis)
6. Disease / dis-ease
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Disease is a condition in which the presence of an
abnormality of the body causes a loss of normal
health
Idiopathic – no identifiable causes
Iatrogenic – occur as a result from medical
treatment
Congenital – disease existing at birth or before
birth, involves in the development of fetus
Acquired - develops post –fetally
Nosocomial – due to being in a hospital
environments
7. Etiology
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Refers to the study of the cause of the disease
General categories of etiological agents; genetic
abnormalities, infective agents, chemical, radiation,
mechanical trauma, malnutrition
8. Pathogenesis
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Is a mechanism of the disease which etiology operates
to produce the pathological and clinical manifestation
For examples – inflammation, degeneration, immune
response
Complication – is the onset of further diseases in a
person who is already suffering from another existing
disease.
9. Diagnosis
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Refers to the process of attempting to determine or
identify a possible disease or disorder.
Prognosis
• Refers to the expected outcome of a disease.
10. Clinical Manifestation
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Are the signs and symptoms or evidence of disease
Signs – objective alteration that can be observe
or measured by another person; pulse rate, blood
pressure, Temperature…. etc
Symptoms – subjective experiences reported by the
person, complains such as pain, nausea, vomiting
…..etc
11. Epidemiology
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Is the study of patters of disease occurrence and
transmission among populations and by geographic
areas.
Incidence of a disease– is the number of new cases
occurring in specific time of period
Prevalence of a disease – is the number of existing cases
within a populations during the specific time of period.
12. Relationship between Cell Adaptation,
Cells degeneration, Cell Death
NORMAL CELLS
CELLS ADAPTATION
CELLS
DEGENERATION
CELLS DEATH
(NECROSIS/APOPTOSIS
Injuries
Injuries
Injuries
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13. Cellular Adaptation
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Under normal conditions, cells must constantly adapt to
changes is their environment (physiological,
pathological).
Atrophy
Hypertrophy
Hyperplasia
Dysplasia
Metaplasia
14. Atrophy
The entire tissue or organs
diminishes in size and function
May be due to decrease in
workload, lost of nerve
stimulating, Lack of blood
supply, inadequate nutrition,
lost of endocrine stimulation and
aging process.
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15. Hypertrophy
Increase the size of the cells
and consequently the size of
the organs.
Increased the synthesis of
structural protein and
organelles.
Can be physiologic
(ex;increase workload during
exercise, uterine
myometrium during
pregnancy) and pathologic
(hypertrophy of myocardium
– hypertension/aortic valve
disease) and adiposity of
adipose tissue. 15
16. Hyperplasia
Increase the number of
cells in an organ or tissue.
(increase rate of cellular
division)
Hypertrophy and
hyperplasia are closely
related
Can be compensatory
hyperplasia (exp: liver),
hormonal hyperplasia (exp:
uterus, breast) and
pathological (exp:
endometrium)
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17. Metaplasia
Is a reversible change in which one adult cell type is
replaced by another cell type.
Adaptation of cells that sensitive to particular stress to cell
types and the adverse of environment
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18. Dysplasia
Atypical hyperplasia
Abnormal change in the
size, shape and
organization of mature
cells
Strongly associated with
common neoplastic
growth
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20. Cell Degeneration (Nonlethal
Injury)
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Nonlethal injury may produce cell degeneration
Manifested as a abnormality of biochemical function,
structural changes or combination.
Its reversible but may become irreversible
(necrosis/apoptosis)
May produce clinical disease.
21. Necrosis (Lethal Injury)
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Definition – unprogrammed cell death and living
tissues. (opposite to apoptosis)
Irreversible
Accompanied with by biochemical and morphological
changes
Due to hypoxia, chemical substances, free
radical, immunologic response, infections ….etc
22. Stages of Necrosis
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Early changes : morphologically normal
Nuclear changes : Pyknosis – is the irreversible
condensation of chromatin in the nucleus of a cell
undergoing necrosis or apoptosis.
Cytoplasmic changes : denaturation of cytoplasmic
protein and lost of ribosomes, swelling of mitochondria
and disruption of organelle membranes and autolysis
occur via lysosomes.
24. Oxygen deprivation
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Hypoxia – oxygen deficiency
Due to ischemia – lost/lack of blood supply (due to
arterial blockage or reduce venous drainage)
Hypoxia also can occurs via:
Lack of oxygen inside blood
Reduction in oxygen carrying capacity in RBC (anemia)
Carbon monoxide poisoning
25. Chemical agents
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Most of the chemical substances can cause cell injury
For example : poisons, air pollutants, insecticides, CO,
asbestos, ethanol, therapeutics drugs etc
This agents can cause cell death by:
Altering membrane permeability’
Altering osmotic homeostasis
Altering integrity of an enzyme
28. Genetic Defects
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Abnormalities to the genomes - mutation
This chromosome anomaly is associated with missing,
or irregularities or extra in portion of chromosomal
DNA
Syndrome Down, Alzheimer's Disease, Huntington’s
Disease etc
29. Nutritional Imbalance
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Cause by directly or indirectly lack of essential
nutrients (malnutrition)
Or it maybe related to excessive of food intake
(Diabetic Mellitus)
For example protein deficiency – Kwashiorkor,
Marasmus
Calcium deficiency – osteoporosis
Vitamin C - Scurvy
30. Physical Agents
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Trauma, extremes of temperature, radiation, electrical
shock all have wide ranging effects on cells.
31. Aging
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Aged cells become larger, less able to divide and
multiply
Lose their ability to functions, or function abnormally.
32. References
- Understanding Pathophysiology, 7th Edition by Sue E. Huether.
- Story, L. (2012). Pathophysiology: A Practical Approach (2nd ed.).
Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
- Hubert, R. J., & Van Meter, K. C. (2018). Gould’s pathophysiology for the health
professions (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Saunders.