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USMLE Buzzwords

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Chlamydia Pistacci (Chlamydia do not make own ATP)






2. A08Digoxin toxicity -






3. A00Lead poisoning -






4. 'A04Wernicke's encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency = ataxia - opthalmoplegia - confusion)' -






5. Whipple's disease -






6. A05Due to M. vulgaris (actinomycetes) Inhalation of sugar cane dust -






7. Some killers have pretty nice capsulesat Strep. Pneumoniae Klebsiella HiB Pseudamona Aeroginosa Neisseria meningitis Cryptococcus neoformans (only encapsulated fungal pathogen) -






8. 'A01Contains digoxin Implicated as a cause of Hodgkin






9. Chronic pancreatitis






10. Colon CA -






11. A098:14 translocations associated with EBV -


12. Cholangitis - (Charcot's Triad) -






13. Amphotericin B -






14. A05Rheumatoid arthritis -


15. CEEKat Citrobacter Enterobacter E.Coli (K1 capsule most important) Klebsiella -






16. Liquefied TB lesions similar to pyogenic abscesses but lacking acute inflammation -






17. A02Scleroderma (CREST) -






18. A03SLE (Type III hypersensitivity) -






19. Acute glomerulonephritis






20. Wegener's granulomatosis






21. Hypersexuality - Hyperorality - Hyperdocility - A26Kluver - Bucy syndrome (amygdala) -






22. Corneybacterium diphtheriae -


23. Coarctation of the aorta -






24. 'A23Methionine - Threonine - Valine - Arginine - Histadine' -






25. A04Mononucleosis -






26. Miosis - anhidrosis - A43Horner's syndrome






27. Giardia lamblia -






28. A03Celiac disease -






29. ACL injury






30. Female - forty and fertile) - A21Acute cholecystitis -






31. Chronic Hypertension -






32. Camphylobacter & Helicobacter -






33. A01Bruton's disease -






34. Hypokalemia - A27Conn's syndrome -






35. Glanzmann's thrombasthenia -






36. 'A39a1 antitrypsin deficiency - causing elastase - = - compliance in the lung' -






37. G6pd deficiency -






38. Lung - -'A19Paragonimus Westermani - Lung fluke. Txt: Praziquantel' -






39. Klebsiella -






40. A06Ankylosing spondylitis -






41. A06IgA Nephropathy -


42. A06LMN CN VII palsy -


43. Sporothrix schenckii






44. Chloramphenicol -






45. A05OBEDat O = Salmonella B = Botulinum E = Erythrogenic strep D = Diptheria -






46. Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone -






47. Minimal change disease






48. Hemangioma






49. Babesia microti: Babesiosis & Borrelia burgdorferi: Lyme Disease -






50. Associated with CNS injury - A22Cushing's ulcers -