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






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






3. Associated w/lymphoid neoplasms. See agglutination & hemolysis in tissue exposed to cold. IgM Abs -






4. A03Vasculitis -






5. Multiple myeloma -






6. A03SLE (Type III hypersensitivity) -






7. Sickle Cell Anemia -






8. Chediak - Higashi Disease






9. % of gas gangrene (myonecrosis) cases: Microbiology - A18Clostridium Perfringens -






10. Budd - Chiari syndrome






11. 'A17Pellagra - (Vitamin B3 - Niacin Deficiency)' -






12. Chronic pancreatitis






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






14. Takayasu arteritis - stenosis of aortic arch and its large branches with ischemia to upper part of the body






15. B. Anthracis & C. Perfringens -






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






17. Pseudomonas aeroginosa -






18. Hypokalemia - A27Conn's syndrome -






19. Neuroblastoma -






20. Acute cholecystitis


21. Positively birefringent - A45Pseudogout






22. A03Marfan's Syndrome -






23. Bartter's syndrome -






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






25. A03Rheumatoid Arthritis -






26. Staph. Epidermidis -






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






28. Lesch - Nyhan syndrom -






29. Haemophilus influenzae -






30. Crohn's disease -






31. Isoniazid -






32. Ella likes cysteineat: Francisella Brucella Legionella Pasturella -






33. Corynebacterium diphtheriae -






34. Corenybacterium D & Nocardia -






35. Yolk - sac tumor






36. Mycoplasma pneumoniae has fried egg colonies on Eaton agar (needs cholesterol) -






37. Hand - Schuller - Christian disease -






38. 'A23B- thallasemia - sickle cell anemia (extramedullary hematopoeisis)' -






39. Hypocalcemia -


40. Subacute bacterial endocarditis. -


41. Chronic Hypertension -






42. Lipid laden macrophages seen in villi of Erythroblastosis Fetalis -






43. Tay- Sachs - Niemann Pick Disease - Central Retinal Artery Occlusion -






44. Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy -






45. A06Gilbert's syndrome -






46. Phagocyte deficiency -






47. Colle's fracture? -






48. Squamous cell carcinoma -






49. Raynaud's Syndrome






50. Aortic stenosis -