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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. sporadic colon cancer tend to arise From what type of polyps?






2. Where does conjugation of bilirubin take place?






3. What does glycosylase do to DNA? endonuclease? lyase? What does the order here of enzymes represent? what other enzymes are needed?

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4. What is capsaicin? Where does it work?






5. What three pathogens cause infectious esophagitis in HIV positive patients?






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






7. What antibodies are present in CREST? What is the most specific?






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






9. What is best to prevent GBS infection in a baby?






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






11. what dictates the resting membrane potential of most cells?






12. Which is faster purkinje system or atrial muscle?






13. why does hypothyroidism cause increased CPK levels?






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






15. What can cause virilization of a mother during pregnancy?






16. are strep pneumo bile sensitive or bile resistant? bile soluble or insoluble?






17. What does 'oxygen' content in blood refer to?






18. What is intussusception? how does ischemia and necrosis occur?






19. What are examples of action that decrease venous return to the heart?






20. What is suggestive of complete central DI?






21. How do you explain the selective proteinuria of loss to albumin only in MCD?






22. When is an S4 sound normal?






23. What causes vertical diplopia? horizontal?






24. What is the neurologic manifestation of ADPKD?






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






26. if there are keratin swirls does that mean well or poorly differentiated?






27. What is the only cranial nerve that comes out dorsally? What does this mean clinically?






28. neisseria are...






29. In What type of nephritis would you see high serum eos count?






30. What is it called if psychotic symptoms last less than one month? one to six months? more than six months?






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






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






33. in treating an anemia and erythropoiesis results - what would you expect to see in peripheral blood findings transiently?






34. What does VIP do to gastric acid secretion?






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

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






37. What is somatomedin C?






38. What is normal fibrinogen levels?






39. what protein is increased in Crohns disease? What does it do?






40. What does the superior gluteal nerve innervate? how does damage to this nerve manifest?






41. what happens with LDL receptor density in statin therapy?






42. What is 5- HETE and What does it do?






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






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






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






46. How is dobutamine better than dopamine?






47. What are ulcers arising in the proximal duodenum in association with severe trauma or burns called?






48. at 2 years of age - What are the social - fine motor - gross motor and language developments?






49. What can too much IgA in serum produces?






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