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Cellular adaptive changes
A heavy smoker was found to have a stratified squamous epithelium in his bronchi.
This pathology can be attributed to which of the following? A- Physiologic hyperplasia B- Pathologic hyperplasia C- Metaplasia D- Dysplasia E- Hypertrophy 
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I think its Metaplasia ... Which defines transformation of one cell type to another .... Due to smoking glandular epithelium of bronchi transform into more protective squamous epithelium .......
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Its C Metaplasia...
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