NCCAOM Biomedicine Board Exam
Questions and Verified Detailed Answers
Warfarin - ✔✔extrinsic pathway, inhibit synthesis of vit k, not in pregnancy
Heparin - ✔✔intrinsic pathway, activate antithrombin, used in pregnancy also
advil side effect - ✔✔renal problem, not before and after surgery (anti platelet,
so bleeding)
hypertensive urgency vs hypertensive emergency - ✔✔emergency: end organ
damage (kidney, bleeding, brain, pupil edema , EKG)
Urgency: headache, chest pain, no end organ damage)
confirm prostate cancer with ... - ✔✔biopsy, not PSA
nerves related with eye movement - ✔✔3, 4, 6 so (superior oblique:4), lr (lateral
rectus:6), 3 others
Brudzinski's Test - ✔✔for meningitis, Severe neck stiffness causes a patient's
hips and knees to flex when the neck is flexed.
addison's sxs - ✔✔dark pigmented skin, fatigue
cause of addison's - ✔✔def. of adrenal's hormones
conn's syndrom - ✔✔excessive aldestrone due to adrenal tumor
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,kernig's sx - ✔✔positive when the thigh is flexed at the hip and knee at 90
degree angles, and subsequent extension in the knee is painful (leading to
resistance). meningitis test
risk factor of COPD - ✔✔smoking
copd - ✔✔emphysema, chronic bronchitis
obstructive pulmonary disease vs restrictive pulmonary disease - ✔✔obstructive
like asthma, restrctive like sarcoidosis
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - ✔✔not asthma
uterine bleeding post menopause - ✔✔cancer
most risk factor for osteoporosis - ✔✔smoking
smoking risk factor for - ✔✔COPD, AAA, osteoprosis, htn,
atrovastatin side effect - ✔✔myalgia
HMG coA reuctase inhibitor side effect - ✔✔myalgia
HMG coA reuctase inhibitors - ✔✔statins
fish oil - ✔✔decrease triglyciride not ldl
how to increase hdl - ✔✔exercise
when BP falls, kidney release .. - ✔✔renin
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,menorrhagia vs metrohagia - ✔✔menorhagia: excessive menstruation can cause
iron def anemia
metrohagia: irregular, frequent bleeding
sob on supine, edema of legs, fatigue - ✔✔CHF
DVT can cause - ✔✔PE
medication for high chlostrol - ✔✔statins
muscle injury evaluated by ... - ✔✔MRI
MRI for - ✔✔soft tissues: spine, brain, joint
excessive licorice increase urinary excretion of - ✔✔potasium
pre eclampsia+ seizure - ✔✔eclampsa
tongue , what nerve - ✔✔12, hyopglossal for control (move) tongue
taste 7 for 2/3
9 for post 1/3
conductive hearing loss vs sensory hearing loss - ✔✔conductive: cerumen
sensory: presbycusis
most common site of epistaxis - ✔✔ant
epistaxis ant vs post - ✔✔ant visible
post not visible
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, most common cause of nose bleeding - ✔✔external trauma (nose picking)
kisselback's plexus
epistaxis tx - ✔✔nasal packing\
silver nitrate (burning)
flat, less than 0.5 cm diameter - ✔✔
flat - ✔✔macul
patch
elevated, palpable - ✔✔papul
plaque
elevated, fluid filled - ✔✔vesicle
bullae
macul vs patch in size - ✔✔macul less than 0.5 cm
patch more than 0.5 cm
papuls vs plaque size - ✔✔papul less than 0.5
plaque more than بزرگه طال پالک
vesicle vs buallae size - ✔✔vesicle less than 0.5
psoriasis - ✔✔silvery scaly, extensors, artritis
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Questions and Verified Detailed Answers
Warfarin - ✔✔extrinsic pathway, inhibit synthesis of vit k, not in pregnancy
Heparin - ✔✔intrinsic pathway, activate antithrombin, used in pregnancy also
advil side effect - ✔✔renal problem, not before and after surgery (anti platelet,
so bleeding)
hypertensive urgency vs hypertensive emergency - ✔✔emergency: end organ
damage (kidney, bleeding, brain, pupil edema , EKG)
Urgency: headache, chest pain, no end organ damage)
confirm prostate cancer with ... - ✔✔biopsy, not PSA
nerves related with eye movement - ✔✔3, 4, 6 so (superior oblique:4), lr (lateral
rectus:6), 3 others
Brudzinski's Test - ✔✔for meningitis, Severe neck stiffness causes a patient's
hips and knees to flex when the neck is flexed.
addison's sxs - ✔✔dark pigmented skin, fatigue
cause of addison's - ✔✔def. of adrenal's hormones
conn's syndrom - ✔✔excessive aldestrone due to adrenal tumor
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,kernig's sx - ✔✔positive when the thigh is flexed at the hip and knee at 90
degree angles, and subsequent extension in the knee is painful (leading to
resistance). meningitis test
risk factor of COPD - ✔✔smoking
copd - ✔✔emphysema, chronic bronchitis
obstructive pulmonary disease vs restrictive pulmonary disease - ✔✔obstructive
like asthma, restrctive like sarcoidosis
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - ✔✔not asthma
uterine bleeding post menopause - ✔✔cancer
most risk factor for osteoporosis - ✔✔smoking
smoking risk factor for - ✔✔COPD, AAA, osteoprosis, htn,
atrovastatin side effect - ✔✔myalgia
HMG coA reuctase inhibitor side effect - ✔✔myalgia
HMG coA reuctase inhibitors - ✔✔statins
fish oil - ✔✔decrease triglyciride not ldl
how to increase hdl - ✔✔exercise
when BP falls, kidney release .. - ✔✔renin
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,menorrhagia vs metrohagia - ✔✔menorhagia: excessive menstruation can cause
iron def anemia
metrohagia: irregular, frequent bleeding
sob on supine, edema of legs, fatigue - ✔✔CHF
DVT can cause - ✔✔PE
medication for high chlostrol - ✔✔statins
muscle injury evaluated by ... - ✔✔MRI
MRI for - ✔✔soft tissues: spine, brain, joint
excessive licorice increase urinary excretion of - ✔✔potasium
pre eclampsia+ seizure - ✔✔eclampsa
tongue , what nerve - ✔✔12, hyopglossal for control (move) tongue
taste 7 for 2/3
9 for post 1/3
conductive hearing loss vs sensory hearing loss - ✔✔conductive: cerumen
sensory: presbycusis
most common site of epistaxis - ✔✔ant
epistaxis ant vs post - ✔✔ant visible
post not visible
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, most common cause of nose bleeding - ✔✔external trauma (nose picking)
kisselback's plexus
epistaxis tx - ✔✔nasal packing\
silver nitrate (burning)
flat, less than 0.5 cm diameter - ✔✔
flat - ✔✔macul
patch
elevated, palpable - ✔✔papul
plaque
elevated, fluid filled - ✔✔vesicle
bullae
macul vs patch in size - ✔✔macul less than 0.5 cm
patch more than 0.5 cm
papuls vs plaque size - ✔✔papul less than 0.5
plaque more than بزرگه طال پالک
vesicle vs buallae size - ✔✔vesicle less than 0.5
psoriasis - ✔✔silvery scaly, extensors, artritis
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