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USMLE Step 1 Prep

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1. What is the term for precipitation of calcium phosphate in dying or necrotic tissue?






2. When a person goes from supine to standing - what happens to the following? - Dependent venous pressure






3. What seronegative spondyloarthropathy is seen in HLA- B27- positive young females and presents with the triad of conjunctivitis - urethritis - and arthritis affecting the knees and ankles?






4. What is the order of fuel use in a prolonged fast?






5. What form of alcohol causes blindness?






6. What embryonic structure forms the adult female structures? - Gartner's duct






7. In a parallel circuit - what happens to resistance when a resistor is added in parallel






8. What virus is associated with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy?






9. Name the most common cause - Infectious pancreatitis






10. What is the first epidermal layer without organelles and nuclei






11. What is the most widely used class of antidepressants?






12. Name the stages of sleep with these EEG patterns: x Alpha waves






13. Is GH considered a gluconeogenic hormone?






14. What IL is essential for lymphoid cell development?






15. What papillae are responsible for sweet taste?






16. In regard to motor development during infancy - choose the motor response that happens first - Radial or ulnar progression






17. Which encapsulated fungus is found in soil enriched with pigeon droppings?






18. From Where is the energy for gluconeogenesis derived?






19. Name the most common type - Specific phobia






20. What are the two most common chains of the TCR?






21. Are the following major or minor Jones criteria of rheumatic fever? - Fever






22. What is the most common one? - Germ cell tumor in men






23. What cell surface marker is found on blood B cells?






24. What happens to plasma concentration of a drug if there is a large volume of distribution?






25. What is the major muscle used in the relaxed state of expiration?






26. What is the most serious form of tinea capitis - which results in permanent hair loss and is highly contagious?






27. Is most of the coronary artery blood flow during systole or diastole?






28. When is the surface tension the greatest in the respiratory cycle?






29. What is the DOC for the following protozoal infections? - Amebiasis






30. Name four chemotactic factors for neutrophils.






31. What enzyme is deficient in congenital erythropoietic porphyria?






32. What type of random controlled test is least subjective to bias?






33. What is the leading cause of primary hyperparathyroidism?






34. What mineral deficiency involves blood vessel fragility?






35. What CN is associated with the x Sixth pharyngeal arch?






36. What is the most likely causative organism for a patient with folliculitis after spending time in a hot tub?






37. What pH (acidotic or alkalotic) is needed for pepsinogen to pepsin conversion?






38. What area of the female reproductive tract is lined by stratified squamous epithelium rich in |glycogen?






39. Name the type of necrosis - Seen as dead tissue with liquefactive necrosis?






40. What form of bias is due to false estimates of survival rates?

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41. Name the type of regeneration (i.e. - labile - stable - or permanent) based on the following examples - Osteoblasts






42. What is the name of the hypothesis you are trying to prove?






43. Name the most common type - Phobia






44. What autoimmune syndrome is characterized by keratoconjunctivitis - corneal ulcers - xerostomia - and an increased risk of high - grade B- cell lymphomas? What two Ab tests are used in making the diagnosis?






45. What family do the following viruses belong to? - Hantavirus






46. What topoisomerase makes ssDNA cuts - requires no ATP - relaxes supercoils - and acts as the swivel in front of the replication fork?






47. What type of fiber or fibers are carried in (answer motor - sensory - or both) x Spinal nerve?






48. In what disease do you see horseshoe kidneys - rockerbottom feet - low - set ears - micrognathia - and mental retardation?






49. What is the term for a delay in the onset of normal IgG synthesis seen in the fifth to sixth month of life?






50. What cell of the duodenum contains high concentrations of lysozymes and has phagocytic activity?