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DST 126 General Pathology

ND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences13 topics

DST 126 covers 13 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Common medical terms in pathology
  2. Aetiology and causative agents
  3. Diagnosis, prognosis and prophylaxis
  4. Inflammation
  5. Signs, symptoms and stages of inflammation
  6. Inflammatory changes and processes
  7. Abscess, cellulitis and empyema
  8. Bacteraemia, septicaemia and pyaemia
  9. Lymphangitis and lymphadenitis
  10. Gangrene, sequestrum, sinus and necrosis
  11. Physical causes of injury
  12. Biochemical diseases and nutritional disorders
  13. Endocrine and metabolic disorders

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Common medical terms in pathology

Common medical terms in pathology are the building blocks of any pathology exam; they describe the nature, duration, and severity of disease processes. Mastering these terms enables students to interpret case histories, laboratory reports, and histopathology slides accurately and to answer multiple‑choice questions that test clinical reasoning.

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