Exam 4: Altered Cellular and Tissue Biology

What principle should the nurse remember when trying to distinguish aging from diseases?

A 50-year-old male intravenous drug user is diagnosed with hepatitis C. What type of cellular damage in the liver might be expected?

When planning care for a cardiac patient, the nurse knows that in response to an increased workload, cardiac myocardial cells will experience hypertrophy. What does hypertrophy mean?

When a nurse is checking a urinalysis, the finding that would alert the nurse to cellular injury is the presence of:

A patient has a heart attack that leads to progressive cell injury that causes cell death with severe cell swelling and breakdown of organelles. What term would the nurse use to define this process?

How is endoplasmic reticulum affected by cellular swelling?

A 24-year-old female presents with excessive menstrual bleeding. The physician identified endometrial changes that are due to hormonal imbalances. What are these cellular changes called?

A 75-year-old male presents with chest pain on exertion. The chest pain is most likely due to hypoxic injury following which condition?

A 20-year-old male presents to the emergency department with a jagged sharp-force injury that is longer than it is deep. Which type of wound will the nurse be caring for?

A 55-year-old male is diagnosed with hepatocellular cancer secondary to hepatitis C. If the cancerous region of the liver is removed, what will occur in the remaining liver cells?

A 23-year-old male develops a black eye following a fight. When the aide asks the nurse why this occurred, the nurse's best response is that the bruising is due to an accumulation of:

An 86-year-old female patient has the wasting syndrome of aging, making her vulnerable to falls, functional decline, disease, and death. What condition does the nurse know this to be?

A family presents to their primary care provider all family members reporting headache, nausea, weakness, tinnitus, and vomiting. Which of the following would be the most likely explanation for these symptoms?

A 55-year-old male with a 30-year history of smoking is examined for respiratory disturbance. Examination of his airway (bronchial) reveals that stratified squamous epithelial cells have replaced the normal columnar ciliated cells. What is this type of cellular adaptation called?