Test your basic knowledge |

USMLE Buzzwords

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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. Goes through superficial inguinal ring. Medial to inferior epigastric artery - A29-






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






3. Sickle Cell Anemia -






4. A03Streptococcus pyogenes -






5. Primary TB -






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






7. Parvovirus: Part of a virusat -






8. HPV -






9. Pseudomonas aeroginosa -






10. Appendicitis -


11. Ehlers - Danlos syndrome -






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






13. Common peroneal lesion -






14. Gas emboli -






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






16. Bronchial Asthma -






17. Sheep - A19Fasciola Hepatica. Txt: Praziquantel -






18. Pancreatic cancer (head) -






19. 'A27Neisseria - Haemophilus - S. pneumoniae' -






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






21. Hypothyroidism -






22. Borrelia recurrentis






23. A098:14 translocations associated with EBV -


24. Sickle cell anemia -






25. Vancomycin






26. 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






27. Neiserria and most Gram (-)s including Pseudomonas aeruginosa -






28. 2nd syphilis Rocky Mountain Spotted fever - Meningitis






29. Neurofibromatosis -


30. Chronic pancreatitis






31. CHF -






32. Tendonitis due to antibiotics - A11Fluoroquinolones -






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






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






35. Haemophilus ducreyi -






36. Legionella pneumophila -






37. Arnold - Chiari Malformation -






38. Hand - Schuller - Christian disease -






39. Giardia lamblia -






40. A07Sarcoidosis -






41. Neurofibromatosis (Von Recklinghausen's disease) -






42. Vibrio parahemolyticus






43. Granulosa Theca Cell Tumor of the Ovary -






44. Streptococcus pneumoniae -






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






46. A08Bordetella pertusis ID -






47. Paresthesias/hypoesthesias - tabetic gait - Dementia - A17Tabes Dorsalis (Tertiary syphilis) -






48. Aortic dissection - joint hypermobility - A31Marfan's syndrome (fibrillin deficit) -






49. Cor pulmonale






50. Hypothyroidism -