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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does 'oxygen' content in blood refer to?






2. where are Beta 1 receptors found?






3. Which branch of the facial nerve provides taste from ant 2/3 of tongue?






4. what commonly happens in GI in response to acute physiologic stress?






5. How do you calculate excretion rate of a substance? How do you calculate the filtration rate of a substance? clearance of what substance estimates the GFR?






6. Which is faster purkinje system or atrial muscle?






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






8. where are the vegetations on the valves of a libman sacks endocarditis?






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






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






11. What three things can reduce the risk of non hereditary ovarian and endometrial cancer?






12. What is easiest way to treat nephrolithiasis?






13. What is the Na/Ca exchange used for?






14. What torch causes an intrapartum infection (as opposed to the rest which are in utero)?






15. which virus inactivates both Rb and p53?






16. what should you think of with coarctation of aorta - bicuspid valves and horseshoe kidney?






17. What are two indicators of chronic alcohol consumption?






18. What is the primary histologic finding in patients with eczematous dermatitis?






19. What is a side effect of ACE inhibitor that is more worrisome in patients with renal failure?who else is it worrisome in?






20. where are the two classical places that the ulnar nerve can be injured?

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21. What is a cardiac cause of head pounding with exertion and nocturnal palpitations? What can cause this?






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






23. What causes congenital QT prolongation syndrome? What is death caused by? in one of the syndromes - What is a common other symptom?






24. What would a deflection of the membrane potential to near zero indicate?






25. 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?






26. What is the most common neurologic complication of VZV reactivation?






27. what happens to the cell body of a neuron after the axon has been severed? What is this called? What is it second to?






28. Metronidizaole does not cover...






29. which anti epileptic is preferred in patients with both absence and tonic clonic seizures?






30. what should you think of in 'smear of an oral ulcer base'?






31. What is subacute sclerosisng encephalitis caused by?






32. what receptors do first generation anti histamines block?






33. What is the mcc of elevated AFP leves in pregnancy>






34. Where is aromatase used?






35. When does opening snap begin?






36. what stimulates bicarb secretion from the pancreas? Where is this hormone produced?






37. What is medullary sponge kidney disease and how does it present? What does it lead to?






38. what induces bronchial squamous metaplasia?






39. integrin mediated adhesion of cells to ECM (and BM) involves integrin binding to what?






40. which congenital adrenal hyperplasia presents with ambiguous genitalia in females and salt retention?






41. What type of drug is alendronate?






42. Where does 90% of serotonin lie? What is this NT responsible?






43. What is the mc manifestation of CMV in HIV patient? immunocompetent?






44. why should you not use ACE inhibitors with someone who had hereditary angioedema?






45. What is a limiting factor when initiating ACE inhibitors? hwo do you prevent a really bad reaction?






46. what makes bruits?






47. which nerve provides innervation for plantar flexion and inversion?






48. what drug causes aggression - nystagmus - ataxia - slurred speech - exaggerated gait and involuntary movements?






49. what disease causes hypoxia induced hemolysis? oxidant induced hemolysis?






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