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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. at three years of age What are social - fine motor - gross motor and language developments?






2. What causes wrist drop?






3. What is normal fibrinogen levels?






4. what color pigmentations are caused by malassezia furfur? when do they become more visible?






5. What is capacitance inversely proportional to?






6. what indicates the severity of a mitral regurg ? mitral stenosis?






7. What is dobutamine? What is it used for?how it is it most helpful? What is bad about it?






8. What does VIP do to gastric acid secretion?






9. When does neovascularization granulation tissue begin to form after severe ischemia and MI? what happens in 12-24 hours? 2 weeks to 2 months? 1-5 days? 0-4 hours? when do you see edema - hemorrhage - wavy fibers?






10. when arrested in prophase of meiosis I - What are primary oocytes chrom number? What about the secondary oocytes that are stuck in metaphase of Meiosis II?






11. in a positively skewed distribution is the mean greater than or equal to the median or the mode?






12. What is epispadias caused by?






13. What type of drug is alendronate?






14. What triggers the neoplastic changes that are associated with HBV infecton?






15. What is the presentation of angioedema? Where is most commonly affected?






16. what has the greatest effect on prognosis when treating c. diptheriae?






17. PDAs are often asymptomatic. How do you treat?






18. on What part of the clavicle does the SCM attach?






19. Where does complement bind on the Fc region of Ig chains?






20. nucleotide deletions do not cause missense mutations - they cause...






21. What does the inferior gluteal nerve innervate? how does damage to this nerve manifest?






22. which antiarrythmic is associated with blue gray discoloration ?






23. what virus causes pharyngoconjuctival fever?






24. What type of cancer is keratin swirls indicative of ? What is the prognosis of this cancer in the esophagus? What is it associated with?






25. what enzymes is lipoic acid a cofactor for? What does a mutation in it result in?






26. Where does glycolsylation occur of alpha procollagen chains occur? disulfide bond formation at the C terminus?






27. which two virus families have hemagluttinin on their surface?






28. What is the mcc of asymmetric inflammatory arthiritis of the lower extremities in young men? what HLA association?






29. Is there edema in primary Conns? secondary hyperaldosteronism? why?






30. how will ectopic pregnancy rupture present? What is key history question for diagnosis? what would a uterine biopsy show?






31. in the LV and aorta - What are the pressures?






32. What are diastolic (lowest) pressures in aorta? LV?






33. What is used to prevent vertical transmission of HIV?






34. What three factors effect total oxygen content of blood?






35. What is the best indicator for the severity of mitral stenosis?






36. What pulmonary structural change can kartageners syndrome cause?






37. What are biphosphanate drugs structurally similar to? What are they used in the treatment of?






38. What causes vertical diplopia? horizontal?






39. what composes the superior and inferior borders of the right side of the cardiac silouhette in a CXR? Where is the pulm arter?






40. in essential fructosuria - what enzyme do patients use to metabolize fructose?






41. metabolism of 1 gram of protein produces How many calories? carb? fat?






42. Acyl coA synthetase is not...






43. what chromosome is c - myc found on?






44. which type of glands produce an initially odorless secretion but can become malodorous secondary to bacterial decompisition on the skin surface? which glands are present throughout the skin except on lips and glans penis?






45. What does nitroprusside do to afterload? preload?






46. What does C1 esterase do other than inhibiting complement pathway?






47. a patient fearing all white coats is a phenomenon of what?






48. What is usually teh last gene mutation in development of a carcinoma (from an adenoma for example)?






49. neisseria are...






50. What are the two coagulase negative staphylococci? How do you distinguish them?