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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What three things can reduce the risk of non hereditary ovarian and endometrial cancer?






2. What is contraindicated in toxic mega colon?






3. What is used to compare means? categorical outcomes?






4. What is extraocular muscle weakness a common symptom of?






5. what immune deficiency causes recurrent neisseria infections?






6. What is the most common congenital adrenal hyperplasia? What does the enzyme convert What to what? and What is the presentation?






7. What are the common causes of metabolic alkalosis? How do you differentiate between them?






8. What is acanthosis nigricans associated with?






9. What can differentiate between relative and absolute erythrocytosis? What can distinguish between primary and secondary erythrocytosis (both absolute mind you)?






10. lipid filled plaques in which arteries does thigh claudication suggest? difficulty sustaining an erection?






11. there are mucus secreting cells in the bronchioles...






12. what disease causes a lack of intracellular killing? lack of killing viruses and fungi?






13. What is hyaline arteriosclerosis usually a sign of ?






14. at four years of age - What are the social - fine motor - gross motor - and language developments?






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






16. What is the difference between additive and synergistic?






17. What is gardeners mydriasis? How is it treated?






18. What is the sole neurologic manifestation of acute rheumatic fever?






19. In what population does cholelithiasis occur?






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






21. What is a primary HSV 1 infection like?






22. What does the severity of leprosy depend on?






23. What is the mc malignancy in asbestosis?






24. What can too much IgA in serum produces?






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






26. What is hypospadias caused by?






27. How do you treat gonococcal infection? chlymadia?






28. What does extended consumption of appetite suppressants lead to?






29. What is diagnostic (and possible therapeutic for intussusception)?






30. what dissolves the lipid bilayer of a viral envelope?






31. When does dysplasia become a carcinoma - in other words When does it nonreversible? What is high grade dysplasia synonymous with?






32. how long is substance P? What does it do?






33. eukaryotes are often polycistronic (multiple genes per mRNA) so ____________ is linked






34. which nerve is at risk when ligating the superior thyroid artery? Which is the only muscle this nerve innervates? what nerve innervates all the other laryngeal muscles?






35. which artery provides the majority of the blood supply to the head and neck of the femur? what happens in fracture of neck?






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






37. how does increased ICP result in curlings ulcers?






38. Where does vasopressin act - on the medullary or cortical segment of collecting tubule?






39. What is the most common cause of hydatid cysts in humans? What does spilling of cysts cause?






40. other than increasing HDL levels - what else does niacin do?






41. What is the triad seen in pre eclampsia?






42. What is the mutation type in thalassemias? what process is defective because of this?






43. what drug is useful for secretory diarrhea?






44. what makes bruits?






45. What are the primary determinants of colon cancer risk in UC patients






46. Where does terminal peptide cleavage of collagen fibrils take place?






47. What are the three dopaminergic systems and What are they responsible for? disease?






48. What is the inherited defect in LiFraumeni syndrome? What is the mode of inheritance?






49. What is an abortive viral infection?






50. what happens to capacitance with age?