A tissue reaction to injury, either director or referred. It is a defensive reaction to irritation. It produces degeneration of the injured area and repair ensues by the aid of tissue cells. Characterized by redness, pain, heat, swelling, and sometimes loss of function.

Which of the following is the correct term for inflammation of the pancreas?

Decrease in severity of pain or symptoms

What is the term for rod-shaped bacteria linked in a chain?

A wasting due to lack of nutrition of any part. The reduction in size of a structure after having come to full functioning maturity.

What is the term for a reduced number of white blood cells?

Which of the following may cause pathological disease conditions?

A complexus of symptoms running together. A set of symptoms characterizing a disease or condition.

An infection that becomes systemic.

An arthropod vector in which the disease causing organism multiples or develops within the arthropod prior to becoming infective for a susceptible individual.