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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.
  • 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. A05Sickle cell anemia -






2. Naked for CPRat: Calcivirus






3. Klebsiella -






4. A08Bordetella pertusis ID -






5. Glanzmann's thrombasthenia -






6. Pseudomonas & Mycobacterium -






7. Alcoholism -






8. Retinitis pigmentosa -






9. Malignant mesothelioma -






10. Chronic Hypertension -






11. Alcoholic liver disease -






12. Minimal Change (Lipoid nephrosis) disease






13. Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone -






14. Measles -






15. Nocardia -






16. Neurofibromatosis -

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17. Libman - Sacks disease -






18. Galactosemia -






19. Pseudomonas aeroginosa -






20. Camphylobacter & Helicobacter -






21. Hypoplastic Goiter nodules that do not take up radio active iodine. [Opposite: hot & do take up iodine] -






22. CAPEat Cholera Anthracis (Poly D glutamate capsule) Pertusis (via Gi) E.coli (LT enterotoxin) -






23. AIDS in MSM -

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24. Papovavirus.






25. Corneybacterium diphtheriae -

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26. Crigler - Najar syndrome -






27. Multiple myeloma -






28. Central apnea in CHF increased ICP -






29. A06Multiple myeloma (kappa or lambda Ig light chains in urine) - Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (IgM) -






30. Ewing's sarcoma






31. Raynaud's Syndrome






32. Chloramphenicol -






33. A04Acute post - streptococcal GN (due to bHGASrtep) Anti streptolysin O -






34. 'A19Osteoarthritis (polished - ivory- like appearance of bone)' -






35. Subacute bacterial endocarditis. -

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36. A00Mycobacterium






37. Scarlet fever (disease caused by an exotoxin released by Streptococcus pyogenes)






38. A00Lead poisoning -






39. Primary TB -






40. Henoch - Schonlein purpura -






41. Henoch - Schonlein purpura -

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42. A04Rheumatic Fever -






43. Treponema palidum & Pneumocystis Carinii (cannot be cultured on inert media but can be found extra cellularly in the body) -






44. H. Influenzae (needs factors V & X for growth) Strep. Pneumoniae N. meningitidis N. gonnorhoae W/ this activity these bugs are able to colonize the oral mucosa. -






45. Wegener's and Goodpasture's (Hemoptysis and glomerular disease) -






46. Lyme disease -






47. 'A27Neisseria - Haemophilus - S. pneumoniae' -






48. A09Lead poisoning -

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49. A00Peptic ulcer disease -






50. A01Waterhouse - Friderichsen syndrome -