Pathology & Microbiology MCQs

Metaplasia is a reversible replacement of one mature cell type by another better suited to stress.

Virchow triad is endothelial injury, abnormal blood flow and hypercoagulability as major contributors to thrombosis.

Anaplasia is loss of differentiation and cellular organisation in a malignant neoplasm.

Amyloidosis is extracellular deposition of misfolded protein in a beta-pleated sheet configuration.

Apoptosis is programmed cell death with cell shrinkage and minimal inflammation.

Reed-Sternberg cell is a large atypical cell classically associated with Hodgkin lymphoma.

Coagulative necrosis is a pattern of cell death with preserved tissue architecture, typical of ischaemia in solid organs except brain.

Coagulative necrosis is a pattern of cell death with preserved tissue architecture, typical of ischaemia in solid organs except brain.

Caseous necrosis is a friable cheese-like pattern of necrosis classically associated with tuberculosis.

Granuloma is an organised collection of activated macrophages formed in response to persistent inflammation.

Dysplasia is disordered epithelial growth with cytological atypia that may precede malignancy.

Metaplasia is a reversible replacement of one mature cell type by another better suited to stress.