PA (ASCP) Certification Exam Questions
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Hypertrophy ✔✔Increased cell and organ size, often in response to increased workload: induced
by mechanical stress and by growth factors; occurs in tissue in
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PA (ASCP) Certification Exam Questions
and Answers Graded A
Hypertrophy ✔✔Increased cell and organ size, often in response to increased workload: induced
by mechanical stress and by growth factors; occurs in tissue incapable of cell division
Hyperplasia ✔✔Increased cell numbers in response to hormones and other growth factors;
occurs in tissues whose cells are able to divide
Atrophy ✔✔Decreased cell and organ size, as a result of decreased nutrient supply or disuse:
associated with decreased synthesis and increased proteolytic breakdown of cellular organelles
Metaplasia ✔✔Change in phenotype of differentiated cells, often a response to chronic irritation
that makes cells better able to withstand the stress
Hypoxia ✔✔Oxygen deficiency which interferes with aerobic oxidative respirations and is an
extremely important and common cause of cell injury and death
Ischemic ✔✔Loss of blood supply in a tissue due to impeded arterial flow or reduced venous
drainage
Coagulative necrosis ✔✔A form of tissue necrosis in which the component cells are dead but the
basic tissue architecture is preserved for at least several days
Liquefactive necrosis ✔✔A form of necrosis seen in focal bacterial or occasionally fungal
infections because microbes stimulate the accumulation of inflammatory cells and the enzymes
of leukocytes digest the tissue
Caseous necrosis ✔✔A form of necrosis encountered most often in foci of tuberculous infections
Fat necrosis ✔✔Term referring to focal areas of fat destruction, typically resulting from release
of activated pancreatic lipases into the peritoneal cavity
Fibrinous necrosis ✔✔A special form of necrosis usually seen in immune reactions involving
blood vessels
Autophagy ✔✔Lysosomal digestion of the cell's own components
Apoptosis ✔✔A pathway of cell death that is induced by a tightly regulated suicide program in
which the cells destined to die activate enzymes capable of degrading the cells own nuclear DNA
Steatosis (fatty change) ✔✔Refers to any abnormal accumulation of triglycerides within
parenchymal cells It is most often seen in the liver
Dystrophic calcification ✔✔Depositions of calcium at sites of cell injury and necrosis
Metastatic calcification ✔✔Deposition of
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