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NC PATHOLOGY EXAM FOR
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
QUESTIONS WITH COMPL ETE
SOLUTIONS
Question 1: What is pathology?
CORRECT ANSWER: The study of structure and
function of the tissues of the body as a result of disease
Question 2: What is general pathology?
CORRECT ANSWER: Branch of Pathology dealing
with the body as a whole, without regard to any particular organ or system
Question 3: What is special pathology?
CORRECT ANSWER: The division of pathology that
deals with individual body organs or system
Question 4: What is clinical pathology?
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CORRECT ANSWER: That branch of pathology
dealing with the various laboratory tests on body fluids and tissues that are used in making a diagnosis
Question 5: What is surgical pathology?
CORRECT ANSWER: The division of pathology that
deals with tissues that have been removed from a patient during surgery
Question 6: What is an autopsy?
CORRECT ANSWER: Removal and study of tissue
from a dead patient
Question 7: What are predisposing conditions?
CORRECT ANSWER: conditions that make a body
more susceptible to disease without actually causing it
Question 8: What is an example of an occupational
disease?
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CORRECT ANSWER: coal dust deposited in the lungs
of miners would be an example of what disease
Question 9: What is suppuration?
CORRECT ANSWER: the formation of pus
Question 10: What is a furuncle?
CORRECT ANSWER: the pathological term for a boil
Question 11: What are adhesions?
CORRECT ANSWER: a term that represents a common
complication of healing
Question 12: What is regeneration?
CORRECT ANSWER: the replacement of destroyed
tissue with the exact same kind of tissue
Question 13: What is hyperplasia?
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CORRECT ANSWER: a controlled enlargement of a
body organ or part due to an increase in the number of its cells
Question 14: What is a phlegmon?
CORRECT ANSWER: acute diffuse inflammation of a
subcutaneous connective tissue
Question 15: What is a hemorrhage?
CORRECT ANSWER: escape of blood from the
vascular system
Question 16: What is plethora?
CORRECT ANSWER: more than the normal total
volume of blood in the body
