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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. 'A47Aortic stenosis - hypertrophic subaortic stenosis' -






2. Tapeworm infection causing megaloblastic anemia by consuming large amount of vit B12 in the host -






3. Plasmodium






4. Infectious mononucleosis (EBV) -






5. Tetracycline -






6. Haemophilus influenzae -






7. A08Fibrocystic change of the breast -






8. Squamous cell carcinoma -






9. Chlamydia Pistacci (Chlamydia do not make own ATP)






10. Vancomycin






11. A06Strep. Agalactiae (Diabetes predisposes to infection) -






12. A07oral cancer. -






13. Malaria -






14. A07Anthrax -






15. Common peroneal lesion -






16. A08Bordetella pertusis ID -






17. Klebsiella -






18. A09Haemochromatosis -






19. Guillain - Barre syndrome -






20. Crigler - Najar syndrome -






21. A05Sickle cell anemia -






22. Clostridium Difficile -






23. 'A17Parkinson's disease (basal ganglia disorder - rigidity - resting tremor - bradykinesia)' -






24. AIDS in MSM -


25. Diabetic ketoacidosis -






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






27. Can Also Have Both Shapesat Cocciodes Aspergillus Histolpasma Blastomyces Sprothrix schenkii -






28. Bronchial Asthma -






29. Mycosis Fungoides (cutaneous T- cell lymphoma) -






30. Alcoholic liver disease -






31. Papovavirus.






32. A07Subarachnoid hemorrhage -






33. A01Mallory Weiss tear -






34. Haemophilus influenzae -






35. Primary TB -






36. A09Down syndrome -


37. Von Recklinghausen's disease -






38. A00Hepatocarcinoma Neural tube defects -






39. Bacilus Cerues -






40. Adenovirus (causes hyperplasia of Peyer's patches) -






41. Hand - Schuller - Christian Disease -






42. Colon CA -






43. Tension headache -






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






45. Galactosemia -






46. A08Osteoarthritis (PIP swelling 2nd to osteophytes) -


47. Parkinson's disease -






48. Hypothyroidism -






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






50. Streptococcus pyogenes -