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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. what should you think of in 'smear of an oral ulcer base'?






2. What torch causes an intrapartum infection (as opposed to the rest which are in utero)?






3. What is the stabilizing force for the secondary structure of proteins?






4. why is glucagon used in beta blocker toxicitiy?






5. What can nitrates lead to that is bad for angina therapy? How do you counter this?






6. What is a limiting factor when initiating ACE inhibitors? hwo do you prevent a really bad reaction?






7. What is a cord factor and Which bugs have it? How do they appear on culture?






8. Which is faster atrial muscle or ventricular muscle?






9. What is the Na/Ca exchange used for?






10. What is a clara cell?






11. if there are keratin swirls does that mean well or poorly differentiated?






12. hypertonicity and hyperreflexity are ________________ of hydrocephalus






13. integrin mediated adhesion of cells to ECM (and BM) involves integrin binding to what?






14. What are the common causes of metabolic alkalosis? How do you differentiate between them?






15. What is 5- HETE and What does it do?






16. What is the mc malignancy in asbestosis?






17. What almost exclusively causes Epliglottitis?What type of capsule does it have? What are the symptoms?

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18. In What type of nephritis would you see high serum eos count?






19. which opponens muscle does ulnar innervate?






20. What are the three predominant symptoms of VHL? What is its mode of inheritance?






21. What is normal fibrinogen levels?






22. which RPGN is also called pauci immune GN? why?






23. what induces bronchial squamous metaplasia?






24. What effects does cortisol have on catecholamines?






25. the rate of blood flow of which two circulations must equal each other at all times?






26. neisseria are...






27. Where is high frequency sound best recepted? low frequency sound? Which is lost more in elderly?






28. after triglyceride metabolism - What is the fate of the glycerol? what enzyme is involved?






29. which has better side effect profile - SSRI or TCA?






30. Increase in lung cancer incidence and mortality has been observed in _____ over last four decades






31. why is crohns disease associated with oxaloacetate kidney stones?






32. what nerve and artery course along the posterior aspect of the humerus?






33. what defines hypoxemia?






34. What aa is NAD+ coenyzme synthesized endogenously from? What does def cause?






35. What does p53 do? what chrom is it on?






36. which trisomy is associated with endocardial cushion defects? What does thsi mean>






37. What does extended consumption of appetite suppressants lead to?






38. What are the three top bacterial causes of acute otitis media - sinusitis - and conjuctivitis?






39. niacin used for hyperlipidemia - What are its side effects? why do they occur? how can you prevent them?






40. Is the uterus enlarged in endometriosis? does it cause dyspareunia?






41. What is the general compensatory mechanism to prevent edema is situations with increased central venous pressure?






42. which nerve is at risk when ligating the superior thyroid artery? Which is the only muscle this nerve innervates? what nerve innervates all the other laryngeal muscles?






43. What can chronic vit A toxicity cause?






44. What are the first generation anti histamines?






45. What is easiest way to treat nephrolithiasis?






46. What type of vision is myopia? In What type of patients does it improve?






47. where are neurons lost in huntingtons disease? What are two mc presenting symptoms?






48. what happens to capacitance with age?






49. What is damaged in early syringomelia? later?






50. How do you calculate excretion rate of a substance? How do you calculate the filtration rate of a substance? clearance of what substance estimates the GFR?