USMLE Buzzwords

Instructions:

• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
• If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
• 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. Malaria -
Food poisoning from reheated fried rice
Infection by Anopheles Mosquito: Microbiology
salt & pepper lesions (Lytic lesions of flat bones) of vertebrae
Painless jaundice


2. A04Nasal polyps Rhinitis bronchoconstriction -
Hyperphagia
Aspirin - Asthma Triad
Gastric ulcer: Acute
Floppy Baby


3. Haemophilus influenzae -
Painless genital ulcer/chancre
Gower's Maneuver (use of patient arms to help pick legs up off the floor)
Gram - negative coccobacilli: Microbiology
Reed - Stenberg cells


4. Acute glomerulonephritis
Eburnation
Renal disease Seen in kidney transplant patients: Microbiology
Call Exner Bodies - (spaces filled with eosinophilic fluid and basement membrane material)
RBC casts in urine


5. Syphilis -
Optochin sensitive: Microbiology
Painless genital ulcer/chancre
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Infection by TseTse Fly: Microbiology


6. A01Strep. Viridans (Subacute Endocarditis) -
Hypochromic microcytosis
Farmer's Lung
Focal neurologic deficits < 1 day
Alpha Hemolysis/Optochin Resistant: Microbiology


7. Granulosa Theca Cell Tumor of the Ovary -
Black eschar on skin
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
Call Exner Bodies - (spaces filled with eosinophilic fluid and basement membrane material)
Recurrent vasospasm in extremities


8. 'A25Reiter's syndrome - ankylosing spondylitis' -
Increased alpha - feto protein in amniotic fluid or maternal serum
Holosystolic murmur
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology
HLA- B27


9. Neuroblastoma -
- cAMP: Microbiology
Peau d'orange
Bacitracin sensitive: Microbiology
Homer Wright Rosettes - circular patterns of neoplastic cells arranged around a core of neuropil (fibrillar extensions of neuroblasts)


10. Macrocytic anemia -
Hypersegmented neutrophils
Heterophil antibodies
Only ssDNA: microbiology
Negri bodies


11. Giant intestinal flukes -'A19Fasciola Biski - Txt: Praziquantel' -
Alpha Hemolysis/Optochin Sensitive: Microbiology
Postpartum pituitary necrosis
eating raw fish
RUQ pain / fever / jaundice + altered mental state and shock


12. A04Acute Myelogenous Leukemia - (esp promyelogenous type) -
Positive Murphy's
Postpartum pituitary necrosis
Oto - and nephrotoxicity due to antibiotics
Auer Rods


13. Corynebacterium diphtheriae -
Club - shaped bacilli in palisades: Microbiology
Anticentromere Antibodies
Acid fast inclusion bodies Increased urinary coproprophyrin - Anemia: microcytic/hypochromic - Stippling of the basophils Gingival line & lead line in bones: x- ray - Mental retardation
Neurofibrillary tangles


14. Neural Tube Defects - Spina Bifida - Anencephaly -
Increased alpha - feto protein in amniotic fluid or maternal serum
Cowdry type A bodies
(+) Frei Test
Atypical lymphocytosis


15. Klebsiella -
Erythema chronicum migrans
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia
RBC Osmotic Fragility
Currant - jelly sputum


16. 'A29Indirect - Goes through deep & superficial inguinal ring Lateral to inferior epigastric artery' -
Pseudorosettes
Gower's Maneuver (use of patient arms to help pick legs up off the floor)
Inguinal hernia Seen in young boys processus vaginalis did not close
Obese female with headache takes OCPs


17. Female - forty and fertile) - A21Acute cholecystitis -
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Nutmeg liver
Fat
Cutaneous T- cell lymphoma


18. Chediak - Higashi Disease
Inguinal hernia Seen in young boys processus vaginalis did not close
Anticentromere Antibodies
Phagocyte Deficiency
Protozoa: Microbiology


19. Wegener's and Goodpasture's (Hemoptysis and glomerular disease) -
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Bence Jones proteins
Reinke crystals
Podocyte Effacement


20. A05OBEDat O = Salmonella B = Botulinum E = Erythrogenic strep D = Diptheria -
Calcium chelator of antibiotics
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology
B Prophage: Microbiology
Relapsing Fever


21. Chlamydia Pistacci (Chlamydia do not make own ATP)
Alpha Hemolysis/Optochin Resistant: Microbiology
Gastric ulcer: Acute
Pick bodies
Obligate Intracellular Bacteria: Microbiology


22. Pyloric stenosis -
Kimmelstiel - Wilson nodules
Relapsing Fever
Nonbilious vomiting / olive size abdominal mass
Pannus


23. Acanthamoeba -
Cheyne - Stokes respirations
salt & pepper lesions (Lytic lesions of flat bones) of vertebrae
Contact lens solution infection
Bronze skin


24. Parkinson's Disease Symptoms
Infection by Reduviid Bug: Microbiology
Endocarditis associated with SLE
Rigidity Resting Tremor - Bradykinesia
Filamentous Bacteria: Microbiology


25. Arterial thrombus -
Obligate Non Intracellular Parasites: Microbiology
Lines of Zahn
Bulla in lung
HLA- DR3 or DR4


26. A05Goodpasture's syndrome -
Sabrands: Microbiology
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Polyneuropathy preceded by GI or Respiratory infection
Atrophy of the mamillary bodies


27. Slipped upper femoral epiphysis (also known as slipped capital femoral epiphysis) -
Chubby teen male with knee pain
Deficiency of Galactose 1 Phosphate Uridyl Transferase.
Osler's nodes - Tender lesions of fingers & toes.
Infection by Ixodes Tick: Microbiology


28. Raynaud's Syndrome
Recurrent vasospasm in extremities
Obese female with headache takes OCPs
Rice water stool
Penile fibrosis


29. A09Down syndrome -

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


30. Patent ductus arteriosus -
Obesity / amenorrhea / hirsuitism / infertility
Continuous machinery murmur
Positive anterior drawer sign
Cancer involving the pituitary gland under the brain


31. Wallenberg's syndrome
Sail sign
PICA Thrombosis
Cherry- Red spot on Macula
Blue - domed cysts


32. Fungal media
Cerebriform nuclei
Obligate Intracellular Bacteria: Microbiology
Sabrands: Microbiology
Painless genital ulcer/chancre


33. Goes through superficial inguinal ring. Medial to inferior epigastric artery - A29-
Ejection click
Port - wine stain
Myxedema
Inguinal hernia in Older men Direct


34. Endocarditis -

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


35. Interstitial Fibrosis -
Honeycomb lung on X- ray
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Sabourauda Agar
Myxedema


36. 'A26VSD - tricuspid regurgitation - mitral regurgitation' -
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (Black liver)
Gastric adenocarcinoma with ovarian metastases
Holosystolic murmur
Black eschar on skin


37. Benign intercranial hypertension - also known as Pseudotumour cerebri -
Anti basement membrane antibodies
Obese female with headache takes OCPs
Defect in platelet adhesion
Rhomboid crystals


38. Pericarditis association -
Increased Uric acid levels
eating raw fish
Buerger's disease
Friction Rub


39. A09small/medium artery vasculitis -

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


40. A04Neurosyphillis -

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


41. 'A23B- thallasemia - sickle cell anemia (extramedullary hematopoeisis)' -
Reid index (increased)
Cerebellar Tonsillar Herniation
Anti dsDNA Ab (ANA antibody)
Hair - on - end appearance on XR


42. Diphtheria toxin & Pseudomonas exotoxon A -
HLA- B27
Protozoa: Microbiology
EFII Ribosylation: Microbiology
Renal cell carcinoma


43. Pseudomonas aeroginosa. -
Janeway lesions - (non - tender
Ecthyma Gangrenosum (Target shaped skin lesions w/ a black center and red ring surrounding the lesion)
Pannus
Needle - shaped


44. Mycobacterium tuberculosis -
Boutonniere deformity
Charcot - Leyden Crystals - (eosinophil membranes)
Endospores G(+): Microbiology
Niacin production: Microbiology


45. A01Curling's ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa) -
Megaloblastic anemia (supplement with vitamin B6) due to antibiotics
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Exotoxin A: Microbiology
Defect in platelet adhesion


46. Parkinson's disease -
Currant - jelly sputum
Philadelphia Chromosome (bcr - abl)
Lewy Bodies
dramatic


47. A06IgA Nephropathy -

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


48. A02Strep. Pneumoniae -
C3 & IgG deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Brown teeth
Factors X and V: Microbiology
Alpha Hemolysis/Optochin Sensitive: Microbiology


49. Hydrocele
Positive testicular transillumination
Basophilic stippling of RBC's
Ant - epithelial cell antibodies
Obesity / amenorrhea / hirsuitism / infertility


50. Rapid appearance of features associated with normal aging - A18Werner syndrome -
Only C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts
dramatic
Kerley B lines
Cheyne - Stokes respirations