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Chapter 12
Inflammation, Infection and Healing
Term | Meaning | incentive spirometer |
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adhesions | bands of scar tissue between or around organs. | |
anaplasia | loss of cellular differentation & function | |
dysplasia | abnormal dividing cells resulting in changes | |
hyperplasia | increase in # of cells from increased cellular division | |
metaplasia | reversible transformation of 1 cell type to another | |
atrophy | decrease in size of tissue/organ caused by decrease # of cells | |
dehiscence | bursting open of wound | |
evisceration | wound seperates to extent intestines protrude | |
fribroblasts | immature connective tissue cells, migrate to healing site and secrete collagen | |
hypertrophy | increase in # of cells w/o cell division. | |
inflammatory response | sequential reaction to cell injury | |
lethal injury | irreversible process that causes cell death | |
sublethal injury | alters function w/o causing cell death | |
necrosis | death of cells within a living organism | |
pressure ulcer | tissue necrosis caused by unrelieved pressure that occludes blood flow | |
regeneration | replacement of lost cells & tissue with cells of same type | |
repair | healing by cells replaced by connective tissue | |
shearing force | pressure exerted on skin..slides with body mopvement | |
pyknosis | nuclear condensation and shrinking | |
karolysis | dissolution of nucleus and contents | |
histiocytes | monocyte that becomes a resident in tissue | |
chemotaxis | movement of WBC's to inflammation area/response to chemical mediators by neutrophils | |
Mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS) | system fixed macrophages & monocytes serve as phagocyte | |
mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS) | system fixed macrophages & monocytes serve as phagocyte | |
incentive spirometer | breathing machine | (blank) |