Questions with Verified
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1g of alcohol - Answer: 7 kcal
2-Naphthylamine - Answer: found in cigarettes-> bladder cancer
47xxx - Answer: a phenotypically normal girl, with maybe some IQ deficinecy
5-HETE - Answer: the leukotriene precurosor for B4 (neutrophil chemotaxsis)
7 alpha hydroxylase - Answer: the enzyme than converts cholesterol into bile acids
80 mg/dL of alcohol - Answer: .08 Blood alcohol concentration= legally drunk
.10 (100mg/dL)= really drunk
.20= coma
a delta nerve endings - Answer: nerves that send afferent sensory information about pain. it is
the first part in a reflex arc
a patient who is an IV drug user, gay with multiple sexual partners-> will he have a high or low
Negative Predictive Value for HIV test? - Answer: low! if the test comes back negative, the
chance that it is a true negative compared to a false negative is low (low NPV)
,action of the obturator externus - Answer: lateral rotation of the thigh
acute interstial nephritis presentation - Answer: oliguria and RASH
acute papillary necrosis presetation - Answer: oliguria and GROSS hematuria
adipolectin - Answer: works with leptin to decrease appetite and stop the progression of type
two diabetes
adiponectin - Answer: works with leptin to decrease appitite and also decrease insulin
resistance
agatroban - Answer: direct thrombin inhibitor
airspace opacities - Answer: the filling of the lungs with products of disease
alexia without agraphia (cant read, but can write) - Answer: damage to splenium of corpus
callosum
alfo toxins - Answer: hepatocelular carcinoma
allantois - Answer: connection between yolk sac and teh urogenital sinus derived bladder->
becomes the urachus-> becomes the median umbilical ligament
almost all cases of mitral stenosis are caused by what - Answer: Rheumatic fever
,alveolar pressure vs. pleural pressure - Answer: same as atmospheric pressure= it is zero at FRC
the pleural pressure is the pressure inside the thoracic cavity and it is always a little more
negative than the alveolar or enviroemtnal pressure. at FRC, it is slightly more negative
amatoxin poisoning - Answer: from eating wild mushrooms-> causes fulminant hepatitis (acute
hepatic failure) from apoptosis of the hepatocytes. the toxin causes inhibition of mRNA
synthesis
amiodorone and fibrates - Answer: BOTH are P450 inhibitors. watch out for amiodorne and
warfarin, because pts many times have an arrythmia and need anticogulation
amniotic band syndrome - Answer: example of disruption
an irregularly irregular tachycardia in a concsious person - Answer: a fib (classically irregulary
irregular- see after a late night of binge drinking)
anencephaly - Answer: caused from maternal diabetes
anorectal varices - Answer: the dilatation of the portal systemic shunt, THESE ARE NOT
INTERNAL HEMORROIDS
another name for phosphatidycholine - Answer: lecthin
ansa cervicalis - Answer: part of the cervical plexsus that innervates all muscles of neck below
the hyoid coming from sternum
1. sternothyoid
2. sternohyoid
3.omohyoid
, anther name for heridatry hemorrhagic telangiectasia - Answer: osler weber rendu syndrome
anti DNAase B antibodies - Answer: rheumatic fever
anti-DNAse antibodies - Answer: seen in acute postreptococcal glomerulonephrtiis
ANYTIME YOU SEE HYPOGLYCEMIA AND HYPOKETONIA - Answer: think acyl coa dehydrogenase
deficeincy
apc gene - Answer: codes for a protein that is in charge of intracellular attachment
are respiratory function tests abnormal in a pulmonary embolism? - Answer: no, because the
tests only have to do with ventilation and nothing to do with perfusion
area most prone to ischemia in heart - Answer: the LV because it has the highest pressure which
decreases the coronary blood flow the most. the coronary blood flood is least in the
subendocardial myocardium
aspirin and colon cancer - Answer: impedes progression from adenoma to carcinoma
at low doses, which cox does aspirin inhibt - Answer: low- cox1 (antiplatlet for TIA)
high- cox 1 cox2- pain and inflammation
at which point is teh pulmonary vascular resistance the least - Answer: right at the FRC, with
inspiration you get streching and thinning of the vessel (decrease radius-> causing increases
resistance) and then on expiration you put pressure on vessels so they collapse. so the best
place for the least amount of resistance in resting equilibruim (FRC)