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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. Ewing's sarcoma






2. 'A01Contains digoxin Implicated as a cause of Hodgkin






3. A09Tetracycline -






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






5. Glanzmann's thrombasthenia -






6. Osteoarthritis (DIP swelling 2nd to osteophytes) -


7. A03SLE (Type III hypersensitivity) -






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






9. Thallasemia major -






10. Tendonitis due to antibiotics - A11Fluoroquinolones -






11. Bacilus Cerues -






12. Hand - Schuller - Christian disease -






13. Fibrin - globulin - pro) - and - Russel Bodies - (eosinophillic Ig containing inclusions) - A46Multiple Myeloma -


14. Minimal change disease






15. Transmits Trypanoma cruzi (Chagas’ disease): Romanaa Sign






16. A02Strep. Pneumoniae -






17. 'A00Chlamydia trachomatis types L1 - L2 - L3 = Lymphogranuloma venereum' -






18. A07Lyme disease -


19. Malignant hyperthermia -






20. Streptococcus pneumoniae -






21. A06Lead poisoning -


22. Duchenne's -


23. G6P Deficiency - (or a - thalassemia with bite cells) -






24. CML






25. A02Streptococcus pneumoniae -






26. Crohn's disease -






27. A08Bordetella pertusis ID -






28. A04Acute Myelogenous Leukemia - (esp promyelogenous type) -






29. A00Abs to I blood group Ag. Mediated by IgM Abs - Complication of EBV or Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections -






30. Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis -






31. Haemophilus influenzae -






32. A09Hyperparathyroidism - Osteitis fibrosa cystica (Von Recklinghausen's disease) -






33. A01Klebsiella -






34. Herpes virus -






35. Endocarditis -


36. Parkinson's disease -






37. Multiple Sclerosis (Charcot's Triad) -






38. B. Anthracis & C. Perfringens -






39. Lyme disease -






40. Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone -






41. Sickle Cell Anemia -






42. Syphilis - overaggressive treatment of an asymptomatic patient that causes symptoms due to rapid lysis -






43. 'A14Seen in atypical pneumonia (Mycoplasma pneumoniae) - It is IgM Ab with specificity for I Ag on adult RBCs' -






44. Type II Membrano Proliferative GN -






45. Culture for all Fungi ie…Culture Cryptococcus neofromans which is found in pigeon droppings






46. A08Congenital rubella -






47. A03Rheumatoid Arthritis -






48. Clostridium Difficile -






49. Polycythaemia (rubra) Vera






50. M. tuberculosis ID -