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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. Liquefied TB lesions similar to pyogenic abscesses but lacking acute inflammation -






2. Leucine & Lysine -






3. AF -






4. Toxic or viral hepatitis -






5. Isoniazid -






6. Trypansoma cruzi: Chagasa






7. AIDS in MSM -


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






9. Down syndrome -






10. Scarlet fever (disease caused by an exotoxin released by Streptococcus pyogenes)






11. A05Streptococcus pyogenes -






12. A00Peptic ulcer disease -






13. Wilson's disease -






14. Pericarditis






15. Patent ductus arteriosus -






16. A01Severe cellular immune deficiency SCID -






17. Coarctation of the aorta






18. Congenital Conjugated Hyperbilirubinemia


19. A02Scleroderma (CREST) -






20. Serratia






21. 'A37Clostridium - Actinomyces - Bacteroides' -






22. A08Congenital rubella -






23. Common peroneal lesion -






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






25. A00Hepatocarcinoma Neural tube defects -






26. Parkinson's disease -






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






28. Chronic Bronchitis






29. Camphylobacter & Helicobacter -






30. A02Pemphigus Vulgaris -






31. Duchenne's Muscular dystrophy -






32. A04Nasal polyps Rhinitis bronchoconstriction -






33. 'A26Ptosis - miosis - and anhidrosis' -


34. Trypansoma brucei gambiense & rhodiense: African Sleeping Sickness -






35. Pasteurella multocida -






36. A09Hyperparathyroidism - Osteitis fibrosa cystica (Von Recklinghausen's disease) -






37. Tension headache -






38. Congestive heart failure/Pulmonary oedema -






39. Sporothrix schenckii






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






41. Krukenberg tumor -






42. Pick's disease






43. Neural Tube Defects - Spina Bifida - Anencephaly -






44. A09Pancoast's tumor -


45. Gaucher's disease -






46. Streptococcus throat infection -






47. M. tuberculosis ID -






48. Slipped upper femoral epiphysis (also known as slipped capital femoral epiphysis) -






49. A07Anthrax -






50. Corenybacterium D & Nocardia -