Test your basic knowledge |

USMLE Buzzwords

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. A00Mycobacterium
Blurred yellowing vision headache
Heinz Bodies - (small round inclusions/extensions of RBC membrane)
Increased alpha - feto protein in amniotic fluid or maternal serum
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology

2. Putamen - thalamus - A42Sydenhama Chorea
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Lucid interval
Optic neuritis due to antibiotics
Most Common Cause/Association: 5- HT increase

3. Wilson's disease -
Freshwater lake infection: Microbiology
Howell - Jolly bodies
Low serum ceruloplasmin
McBurney's sign

4. Isoniazid -
Fast vs. slow acetylators due to antibiotics
Coagulase (+): Microbiology
Fried egg shaped colony: Microbiology
Heinz bodies

5. Associated with severe burns - A22Curling's ulcer -
Ecthyma Gangrenosum (Target shaped skin lesions w/ a black center and red ring surrounding the lesion)
Glucogenic amino acids
Gastric ulcer: Acute
Defect in platelet aggregation

6. Sheep - A19Fasciola Hepatica. Txt: Praziquantel -
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Sabourauda Agar
eating raw fish
Apple - green birefringence

7. A03Primary Biliary Sclerosis -
Inclusion Bodies: Microbiology
Ketogenic amino acids
Antimitochondrial antibodies
Malabsorption syndrome caused by Tropheryma whippelii

8. Granuloma inguinale -
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
Diminished absent lower limb pulses
Donovan bodies
Crescendo decrescendo murmur

9. Down syndrome -
Antimitochondrial antibodies
Palmar crease/simian crease
Fatty liver
Dynein defect

10. Alcoholic liver disease -
Niacin production: Microbiology
Encapsulated bacteria: Microbiology
IgA Protease Activity: Microbiology
Mallory bodies

11. Streptococcus pyogenes -
Inclusion Bodies: Microbiology
Chronic Cold Agglutinaiton
Bronze skin
M protein: Microbiology

12. Borrelia recurrentis
Relapsing Fever
Ejection click
Bilateral amygdala lesions
Brushfield's spots

13. Tetracycline -
Arachnodactyly
Calcium chelator of antibiotics
Rice H2O Diarrhea: Microbiology
Mallory bodies

14. Pseudomonas aeruginosa -
Cat Bites
D- Dimers
Exotoxin A: Microbiology
Benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia

15. Peyronie's Disease
Penile fibrosis
Contact lens solution infection
Agammaglobulinemia: X- linked
Dry eyes

16. A07Achalasia -
Atrophy of the mamillary bodies
Alpha - Feto Protien AFP Most Common Cause/Association:
Alpha - hemolytic: Microbiology
Birds beak on barium swallow

17. Gram (+): Bacillus & Clostridium made up of dipicolinate & Keratin -
Brushfield's spots
Christmas tree patterned rash
Endospores G(+): Microbiology
2 circular DNAs: Microbiology

18. 'A28Gout - - Lesch - Nyhan syndrome - - myeloproliferative disorders - - loop and thiazide diuretics' -
HbF presence
Herald patch
Increased Uric acid levels
Filamentous hemagglutinin: Microbiology

19. Cryptococcus neoformans -
Barr Body
Rose Bush Thorns
Indian Ink: Microbiology
C3 & IgG deposits in Glomerulonephririts

20. Predisposition to gastric carcinoma -
Chronic atrophic gastritis
Renal disease Seen in kidney transplant patients: Microbiology
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology
Dysphagia (due to webs in the upper esophagus)

21. Pyogenic osteomyelitis
Periosteal elevation on XR
Marble Bone
Reed - Stenberg cells
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency

22. Henoch - Schonlein purpura -

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

23. Secondary syphilis -
Cowdry type A bodies
Deficiency of Phenylalanine Hydroxylase.
Condylomata lata
Peau d'orange

24. B. Anthracis & C. Perfringens -
Esophageal webs with iron deficiency
Non Motile Bacilli & Clostridium: Microbiology
Mousy body odor
Pseudorosettes

25. Endometriosis -
Currant - jelly sputum
Basophilic stippling of RBC's
Painful pharyngeal erythema with exudate
Chocolate Cysts on ovaries

26. 'A04Wernicke's encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency = ataxia - opthalmoplegia - confusion)' -
Sabrands: Microbiology
Brushfield's spots
Atrophy of the mamillary bodies
Defect in platelet adhesion

27. Leucine & Lysine -
Ketogenic amino acids
Obese female with headache takes OCPs
Optic neuritis due to antibiotics
Petehial hemorrhages are seen on kidney surfaces = Flea - Bitten surface = young black men

28. Rifampin -
Pseudopalisade tumor cell arrangement
- cAMP: Microbiology
Cold Nodules
Orange bodily fluids due to antibiotics

29. Ethambutol -
Headache in band - like distribution
Peau d'orange
Optic neuritis due to antibiotics
Infection by TseTse Fly: Microbiology

30. Plasmodium
Blue - domed cysts
Protozoa: Microbiology
eating raw fish
beta Hemolysis/Bacitracin Resistant: Microbiology

31. A09Haemochromatosis -
Late cyanosis shunt (uncorrected L->R shunt becomes R->L shunt)
Bronze skin
Ferruginous bodies
Recurrent vasospasm in extremities

32. Chronic Bronchitis
Neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality
Eburnation
Reid index (increased)
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology

33. A08Rheumatoid Arthritis -
- cAMP: Microbiology
Boutonniere deformity
Owl's eye
Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy/ granulomas / uveitis

34. Corenybacterium D & Nocardia -
Panlobular Emphysema
Hofbauer Cells
Non Motile Gram (+) Rods: Microbiology: Microbiology
Cold abscesses

35. A09Lead poisoning -

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

36. Multiple Sclerosis (Charcot's Triad) -
Need Cysyeine for growth: Microbiology
Cat Bites
Pseudomembranous colitis due to antibiotics
Nystagmus - Intention Tremor - Scanning Speech

37. Tendonitis due to antibiotics - A11Fluoroquinolones -
Deleted dystrophin gene (X- linked recessive)
Protein A: Microbiology
eating raw fish
Cartilage damage

38. Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis -
Councilman bodies
Lumpy- bumpy appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence
Chancroid (painful)
IgA Proteases: Microbiology

39. A00Lead poisoning -
Esophagogastric lacerations during intensive vomitting
Cartilage damage
Acid fast inclusion bodies Increased urinary coproprophyrin - Anemia: microcytic/hypochromic - Stippling of the basophils Gingival line & lead line in bones: x- ray - Mental retardation
Iduronidase deficiency

40. These rascals may microscopically lack colorat: Treponema Ricksetta Mycobacterium Mycoplasma Legionella Chlamydia -
Ant - epithelial cell antibodies
Dinner fork deformity
Kayser Fleischer rings
Lack color: Microbiology

41. Gardner's syndrome -
Idiopathic polyneuritis
salt & pepper lesions (Lytic lesions of flat bones) of vertebrae
Blue - domed cysts
Colon polyps with osteomas and soft tissue tumors

42. A03Celiac disease -
Reinke crystals
Pulseless disease
Antigliadin antibodies
Anti dsDNA Ab (ANA antibody)

43. Some killers have pretty nice capsulesat Strep. Pneumoniae Klebsiella HiB Pseudamona Aeroginosa Neisseria meningitis Cryptococcus neoformans (only encapsulated fungal pathogen) -
Sabrands: Microbiology
Rotor's Syndrome
Encapsulated bacteria: Microbiology
Alcoholic retching then haematemesis

44. Mycobacterium tuberculosis -
Reid index (increased)
Novobiocin Resistant (UTIs) : Microbiology
Cord factor: Microbiology
Lens dislocation

45. Tay- Sachs - Niemann Pick Disease - Central Retinal Artery Occlusion -
Pick bodies
Machinery like murmur
Cherry- Red spot on Macula
Caisson disease

46. 'A41Emphysema (centroacinar[smoking] - panacinar [alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency]'
Novobiocin sensitive (Endocarditis in IVDUs) : Microbiology
Donovan bodies
Pink Puffer
Cherry- Red spot on Macula

47. Iron deficiency anaemia -

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

48. % of gas gangrene (myonecrosis) cases: Microbiology - A18Clostridium Perfringens -
Inguinal hernia in Older men Direct
Bell's Palsy
Holosystolic murmur
Double Zone b Hemolysis (test)

49. Wegener's granulomatosis
Diminished reflexes
Call Exner Bodies - (spaces filled with eosinophilic fluid and basement membrane material)
Ketogenic amino acids
Positive C- anca

50. A07Subarachnoid hemorrhage -
Bloody tap on LP
Lytic bone lesions on XR
Caudate degeneration (autosomal dominant)
Diminished reflexes