POT 317
Clinical Pathology
2 Unit(s) (LH 30)
Course Description
At the end of this course, the students should be able to:
1. discuss cellular mechanism and basis of diseases;
2. identify different inflammatory molecules and the mechanism of immune response to
foreign biological and non-biological entities;
3. discuss types of injury, bacteria, fungal and viral diseases, oedema and thrombosis
conditions; and
4. describe types of tumours /cancers.
Course Outline
Pathology of diseases. Cellular basis of disease. Inflammation and healing. Immune mechanism,
physical agents in injury and disease, drug and chemical injury, radiation injury, atrophy,
hypertrophy, degeneration, oedema, thrombosis, infarction, bacterial and viral disease, fungal
infections, tumours, cancers and inherited disease.