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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. Putamen - thalamus - A42Sydenhama Chorea






2. Naked for CPRat: Calcivirus






3. A06Strep. Pyogenes (pharyngitis






4. Multiple myeloma






5. A04Necrobiosis lipoidica - Skin lesions of classic NL begin as 1- to 3- mm well - circumscribed papules or nodules that expand with an active border to become waxy atrophic round plaques centrally. Initially these plaques are red - brown in color but






6. A07Anthrax -






7. Neural cest cells From which carcinoids arise = of the Bronchi






8. Urinary bladder CA -






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






10. Tetracycline -






11. Patent ductus arteriosus -






12. Tendonitis due to antibiotics - A11Fluoroquinolones -






13. Von Recklinghausen's disease -






14. A07Achalasia -






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






16. Common peroneal lesion -






17. Lyme disease -






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






19. A03Amyloidosis -






20. Trypansoma cruzi: Chagasa






21. Trichomoniasis -






22. Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis -






23. A07Histiocytosis X (eosinophilic granuloma) -






24. Benign intercranial hypertension - also known as Pseudotumour cerebri -






25. Bartonella henselae. Leion can resemble Kaposi's sarcoma. Toxoplasmosis -






26. Libman - Sacks disease -






27. Retinitis pigmentosa -






28. 'A01Contains digoxin Implicated as a cause of Hodgkin






29. Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy -






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






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






32. Cryptococcus neoformans -






33. Leydig cell tumor






34. A03Rheumatoid Arthritis -






35. A02Skip lesions (Crohn's disease = autoimmune) -






36. A05Rheumatoid arthritis -

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37. Neuroblastoma -






38. Chronic Bronchitis






39. A01Guillain - Barre (increased protein in CSF with only modest increase in cell count) -






40. Primary TB -






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






42. Pseudomonas aeruginosa






43. 'A45Urethritis - conjunctivitis - arthritis'

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44. Ribs - skull - A47Multiple Myeloma






45. Perioral pigmentation - A06Puetz - Jeghers syndrome -






46. Chloramphenicol -






47. Pseudomonas aeroginosa -






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






49. Infectious mononucleosis (EBV) -






50. Duchenne's -

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