Essentials of Human Diseases And Conditions 5th Edition By Frazier RN CMA BS Test Bank
Chapter 1: Mechanisms of Disease, Diagnosis, and Treatment
MULTIPLE CHOICE
- Signs of disease
| a. | always cause symptoms. |
| b. | rarely correlate with symptoms. |
| c. | include abnormal objective findings. |
| d. | are always described by the patient. |
ANS: C
- Predisposing factors of disease
| a. | precisely predict the occurrence of disease. |
| b. | make a person or group more vulnerable to disease. |
| c. | never overlap or occur in combination. |
| d. | can all be controlled by prevention. |
ANS: B
- Genetic diseases may be
| a. | produced by an abnormality in or mutation of the genetic code in a single gene. |
| b. | caused by several abnormal genes. |
| c. | caused by the abnormal presence or absence of a chromosome or an alteration of the structure of chromosomes. |
| d. | all of the above. |
ANS: D
- Benign tumors
| a. | tend to remain encapsulated. |
| b. | infiltrate surrounding tissue. |
| c. | do not compress surrounding tissue or obstruct organs. |
| d. | do not resemble the tissue of origin. |
ANS: A
- Malignant tumors
| a. | tend to infiltrate other tissue. |
| b. | tend to bleed, ulcerate, and become infected. |
| c. | may spread to distant sites in the body. |
| d. | are all of the above. |
ANS: D
- Which statement is true regarding the TNM (tumor, nodes, metastasis) cancer staging system?
| a. | Assesses the size and extent of the spread of the primary tumor. |
| b. | Is a grading system based on the degree of differentiation of tumor cells. |
| c. | Both a and b are true. |
| d. | Neither a nor b is true. |
ANS: A
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