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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

Multiple choice sexually transmitted diseases stds and infertility reproductive health reproduction biology

Fluid discharge, slight pain and swelling in genital region are the early symptoms of

  1. Sexually transmitted disease

  2. Fungal disease

  3. Viral disease

  4. Both A and B
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The sexually transmitted diseases also called venereal diseases, are spread by sexual intercourse with an infected person. The major venereal diseases are syphilis and gonorrhea. Fluid discharge, slight pain, swelling in genital region are the early symptom of sexually transmitted disease.

Thus option A is the correct answer.

Multiple choice sexually transmitted diseases stds and infertility reproductive health reproduction biology

The common symptoms of sexually transmitted disease are

  1. Fluid discharge

  2. Swelling and slight pain

  3. Both A and B

  4. Headache
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The most common type of STD's are chlamydia, herpes & gonorrhea. The early symptoms in each one of these are swelling near the genitals & fluid discharge from the reproductive organs. 

So the correct option is 'Both A and B'.

Multiple choice zoology skeleton and movements features of a muscle muscle features muscle contraction and its effects

Feeling of fatigue after running fast for some time is due to

  1. Loss of energy

  2. Accumulation of lactic acid in muscles

  3. Formation of succinic acid

  4. Formation of biuret crystals
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
  • Generally, the glucose undergoes metabolism in the presence of oxygen to form ATP(adenosine triphosphate) which is essential for the muscle contraction but during vigorous exercise, the body cannot meet the oxygen demand and the glucose undergoes metabolism in the absence of oxygen which results in the formation and accumulation of lactic acid.
  • Feeling of fatigue after running fast for some time is due to the accumulation of lactic acid in muscles.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Accumulation of lactic acid in muscles'.
Multiple choice biology infectious diseases pathogen and their mode of transmission some infectious diseases diseases and immunity health and diseases

Symptoms of TB include

  1. Fever

  2. Weight loss

  3. Attacks

  4. Both A and B
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Early symptoms of active TB can include weight loss, fever, night sweats and loss of appetite. Symptoms may be vague, however, and go unnoticed by the affected person. For some, the disease either goes into remission (halts) or becomes chronic and more debilitating with cough, chest pain and bloody sputum (saliva). 

Multiple choice biology infectious diseases pathogen and their mode of transmission some infectious diseases diseases and immunity health and diseases

Sign and symptoms of a particular diseases are shown related to tuberculosis?

  1. Evening rise of temperature, coughing and weight loss

  2. Infection is nasal cavity, headache, pain in stomach

  3. Infection in alveoli, chills, fever and cough

  4. Intestinal infection, persistent fever
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Tuberculosis (TB) typically presents with chronic symptoms including a persistent cough, weight loss, and an evening rise in body temperature.

Multiple choice biology infectious diseases pathogen and their mode of transmission some infectious diseases diseases and immunity health and diseases

Which of the following are symptoms of TB?

  1. Coughing

  2. Fever

  3. Loss of appetite

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Although your body may harbour the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, your immune system usually can prevent you from becoming sick. Several signs and symptoms of active TB include: coughing that lasts three or more weeks, coughing up blood, chest pain, or pain with breathing or coughing, unintentional weight loss, fatigue, fever, loss of appetite etc. 

Multiple choice biology infectious diseases pathogen and their mode of transmission some infectious diseases diseases and immunity health and diseases

Which of the following is not a symptom of tuberculosis?

  1. Increase in body weight and tiredness.

  2. More than two weeks of coughing bouts.

  3. Thick yellowish green sputum produced.

  4. An X-ray shows dark spots in the lungs.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Tuberculosis is a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The symptoms are a loss of the body weight, fatigue, there is a cough for more than two weeks with mucus and blood, the color of the sputum is yellowish or green. The X-ray shows spots in the lungs due to the infection.

Thus, the correct answer is option A. 

Multiple choice biology infectious diseases pathogen and their mode of transmission some infectious diseases diseases and immunity health and diseases

Loss of body weight, persistent cough with blood and sputum of yellowish- green colour are the symptoms of

  1. Tuberculosis.

  2. Typhoid.

  3. Hepatitis-B.

  4. Cholera.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Tuberculosis is a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculae. The symptoms include loss of body weight, cough with mucus and blood and the color of the sputum turns to yellowish or green. The disease is transmitted through the air droplets while sneezing and coughing. 

Thus, the correct answer is option A. 

Multiple choice biology infectious diseases pathogen and their mode of transmission some infectious diseases diseases and immunity health and diseases

Coughing up blood or mucus, chest pain, breathing difficulty, weight loss and fatigue are the symptoms of

  1. Primary stage of TB.

  2. Pulmonary TB.

  3. 6 months after TB infection.

  4. None of the above.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Symptoms of active TB can depend on what part of the body has been infected. If active TB occurs in the lungs, the symptoms can include a cough lasting 3 weeks or more, pain in the chest area, breathing difficulty, weight loss, cough that brings blood or mucus, chills, fever, and fatigue. TB can also affect a person's brain, bones, kidneys, or spine.

Thus, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice zoology the respiratory system regulation of breathing human respiratory system contro and disorders of respiration

Congestion of lungs is one of the main symptoms in.

  1. Hypertension

  2. Angina

  3. Heart failure

  4. Coronary artery disease

  5. Atherosclerosis
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Congestion of the lungs (pulmonary edema) occurs when the heart cannot pump blood effectively, causing fluid to back up into the lungs. This is a classic symptom of congestive heart failure.

Multiple choice biology diseases and hygiene anaemia mosquito and human health non communicable diseases

Allergies can be described as ______________________.

  1. Sneezing, itching, watery eyes, scratchy throat

  2. An overreaction from the immune system to a foreign substance

  3. The onset of a cold during spring months

  4. A reaction to the influenza virus during spring months.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Option $'B'$ is correct.


Allergies can be described as an overaction from the immune system to a foreign substance. Allergies occurs when the immune system overreacts to ordinarily formulas substances. The allergies reaction is a misguided reaction to foreign substance by the immune system. The common system is misguided is allergies. Allergies symptoms are sneezing, watery eyes, itching etc.