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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

Directions: Complete the given paragraph by selecting the most appropriate answer from the given options and fill blank (5). Babesiosis is a malaria-like illness that causes fever and _____ (5) and can prove _________ (6). It's one of a handful of diseases carried by ticks that are increasingly infecting people in the US. "Deer are very important in the life cycle of the ticks that _________ (7) the diseases because they provide a place for the ticks over winter to survive, to _________ (8) and to feed. And deer have markedly increased over the past 50 years in the northeast of the United States due to _________ (9).

  1. fatigue

  2. ardour

  3. verve
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Explanation

The meaning of Option 1 is tiredness.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements regarding nasal septal deviation is false?

  1. Nasal septal deviation is often symptomatic.

  2. Perforation of the nasal septum can cause crusting and bleeding.

  3. There is noisy breathing during sleep.

  4. Nasal septal deviation leads to facial pain.

  5. Surgery to correct a deviated septum is not always necessary.
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Explanation

Nasal septal deviation is common, and often asymptomatic. Asymptomatic septal deviation causes nasal obstruction and predisposes the patient to sinusitis and to epistaxis due to drying air currents.

Multiple choice

Tetanus can be categorised as

  1. integumentary infection

  2. transmissive infection

  3. zoonotic infection

  4. intestinal infection
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Explanation

It is an integumentary infection.

Multiple choice

Dead Wuchereria bancrofti can cause

  1. Elephantiasis

  2. Erythema nodosum leprosum

  3. Serum sickness

  4. Pigeon fancier's disease

  5. Farmer's lung
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Explanation

Dead filarial worm parasites in lymphatic vessels initiate an inflammatory reaction.

Multiple choice

In which of the following conditions is Kernig's sign observed?

  1. Infectious mononucleosis

  2. Hepatocellular carcinoma

  3. Aseptic meningitis

  4. Laryngeal papillomas
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Explanation

Kernig's sign is observed in Aseptic meningitis. Kernig's sign is  positive when the thigh is bent at the hip and knee at 90 degree angles, and subsequent extension in the knee is painful. Aseptic meningitis, or sterile meningitis, is a condition in which the layers lining the brain, meninges, become inflamed caused by Herpes simplex virus 2.

Multiple choice

Which of the following causes Schuffner’s dots observed in erythrocytes?

  1. Giardiasis

  2. Filariasis

  3. Malaria

  4. Kala-azar

  5. Laryngitis
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Explanation

Schüffner's dots refers to a hematological finding that is associated with malaria, exclusively found in Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium vivax. Plasmodium vivax induces morphologic alterations in infected host erythrocytes that are visible by light microscopy in Romanovsky-stained blood smears as multiple brick-red dots.

Multiple choice

Malarial fever starts when

  1. mosquito bites the body

  2. germs start multiplying

  3. toxins are released in the body

  4. 72 hours are passed after the mosquito bites
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Explanation

Malarial fever occurs when the malaria parasites (Plasmodium) rupture red blood cells, releasing toxins and debris into the bloodstream. This rupture triggers the immune system and causes the characteristic fever spikes. The initial mosquito bite merely transmits the parasites, while fever begins later during the blood-stage infection cycle.

Multiple choice

The multiple, painful lipomas are the symptoms of

  1. Adiposis dolorosa

  2. Dermatitis herpetiformis

  3. Dermatomyositis

  4. Diabetes mellitus type 1

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Explanation

Adiposis dolorosa, is a rare condition characterized by multiple, painful lipomas. These lipomas mainly occur on the trunk, the upper arms and upper legs. The diagnosis of Dercum's disease implies a long, chronic pain syndrome of debilitating nature.

Multiple choice

Which of the following auto-immune diseases leads to liver cirrhosis?

  1. Adult linear IgA disease

  2. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

  3. Lupoid hepatitis

  4. Lupus erythematosus

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Explanation

Lupoid hepatitis is an auto-immune disease which causes liver cirrhosis. It maybe associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or other connective tissue disorders. 60% of patients have chronic hepatitis that may mimic viral hepatitis, but without serologic evidence of a viral infection.