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Disease Symptoms and Effects
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Disease symptoms and effects involve identifying physical and clinical signs of various medical conditions, ranging from infectious diseases to psychological grief. Topics cover diverse health issues such as anthrax, norovirus, sensorineural hearing loss, and environmental illnesses. These questions are essential for medical exams and general science sections.
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Disease Symptoms and Effects Questions
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sore mouth and tongue
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dry, scaly or rough skin
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bleeding from the gums
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bowing of legs
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Malnutrition is the condition that occurs when your body does not get enough nutrients. The early signs of malnutrition do not include bowing of legs.
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Pain
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Dysuria
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Vomiting
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Poikalluria
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Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic pain condition affecting the trigeminal nerve (cranial nerve V), which supplies sensation to the face. The hallmark symptom is severe, sharp, shooting facial pain, typically triggered by touch or movement. Dysuria, vomiting, and poikiluria are unrelated symptoms.
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Polio
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AIDS
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Malaria
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Influenza
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Diarrhoea
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This is the correct option. The symptoms of AIDS are swollen lymph nodes, regular fever, sweating at night and weight loss.
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Giant cell arteritis
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Anesthesia dolorosa
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Cluster headache
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Hemicranial
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Anesthesia dolorosa is one of the most dreaded complications of neurosurgery and is considered to be nonreversible. It occurs when the trigeminal nerve is damaged by surgery or physical trauma in such a way that the feeling sensation in part of the face is reduced or eliminated entirely while the sense of pain remains.
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Involving mucosal surface of oesophagus and oropharynx
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Due to having high antigen titers
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Due to formation of sporangia
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Involving lung after inhalation of sporangiospores
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Cryptococcosis is the sporadic widely spread infection caused by the microbes often encountered in soil and in the avian feces like pigeon droppings that apparently gives the organism’s reservior. AIDS patients are highly vulnerable to cryptococcosis. Maximum AIDS patients with cryptococcal meningitis have severely high antigen titers in both the spinal fluid and serum. Microscopic test of spinal fluid disclose huge number of yeast cells.
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Rabies
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Polio
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Tetanus
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Tuberculosis
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Asthma
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Tetanus, commonly called lockjaw is a serious bacterial disease that affects muscles and nerves. It is characterized by muscle stiffness that usually involves the jaw and neck that then progresses to involve other parts of the body. Death can result from severe breathing difficulties or heart abnormalities..
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Lung
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Liver
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Kidney
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Stomach
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Heart
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Jaundice means the yellow appearance of the skin. Jaundice is most often the result of a disorder affecting the liver. Body fluids may also be yellow.
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Swollen lymph nodes
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Weight gain
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Night sweats
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Weight loss
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Fever
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It is not a symptom of AIDS.
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Chills and headache
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Painful aching in legs and joints
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Backache
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Eyes become reddned
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Gland in the neck and groin are never swollen.
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It is a not symptom of Dengue. Gland in the neck and groin are often swollen in Dengue.
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Excessive cell proliferation
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Transformation of a benign tumour into a malignant tumour
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Movement of cancerous cells from one site to another site in the body
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Transformation of a normal cell into a tumourous cell
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Metastasis refers to the spread of cancer cells from the primary tumor site to distant organs or tissues through the bloodstream or lymphatic system. This process is what distinguishes malignant cancers from benign tumors and is a major factor in cancer staging and treatment decisions.
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Coenurosis
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Ascariasis
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Osteoarthritis
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Enterobiasis
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Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis. OA is a chronic condition characterized by the breakdown of the joint’s cartilage. The breakdown of cartilage causes the bones to rub against each other, causing stiffness, pain and loss of movement in the joint.
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Genital wart
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AIDS
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Herpes
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Chancroid
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Chancroid is a bacterial infection caused by Haemophilus ducryi.
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Entamoeba histolytica
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Amoeba proteus
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Dictyostelium discoideum.
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Naegleria fowleri
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Naegleria fowleri is called brain-eating amoeba.
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Throat is the part of human body which is affected by diphtheria. Diphtheria mainly spreads from person to person by direct contact with people who have this condition or carry it. Since the bacteria are located in human's nose, throat and mouth, it can spread via droplet infections through sneezing and coughs.
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Diabetes
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Bronchitis
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Conjuctivitis
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Cholera
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Herpes
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This is the correct option. Cholera is not a physical disease. It is an infectious disease. It is caused due to the invasion of the body by infection causing organisms.
Herpes is a virus disease caused by herpesvirus, affecting the skin or the nervous system.