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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

The main side effect of excessive intake of “Acetaminophen” is

  1. nausea

  2. abdominal pain

  3. haemoptysis

  4. liver failure

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Excessive intake of acetaminophen (paracetamol) causes liver failure (hepatotoxicity) as its main serious side effect. In overdose, the normal metabolic pathways become saturated, leading to formation of the toxic metabolite NAPQI which causes liver necrosis. Nausea and abdominal pain can occur but are not the main serious effect. Haemoptysis is not associated with acetaminophen toxicity.

Multiple choice

Rice water stool is a symptom of which disease?

  1. Malaria

  2. Jaundice

  3. Cholera

  4. Filiaria

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Rice water stool - watery, pale, flecked with mucus resembling rice water - is the classic diagnostic symptom of cholera. It's caused by the cholera toxin producing massive fluid secretion into the intestine.

Multiple choice

Which of the following viral diseases has the given symptoms?

The first symptoms of a disease are mood instability, agitation, mental confusion and throat petechiae and then nosebleeds, vomiting and black stools. Then, liver becomes swollen and painful. Disseminated intravascular coagulation may occur as well as acute kidney failure and shock. Acute respiratory distress syndrome also occurs sometimes. 

  1. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)

  2. Colorado tick fever

  3. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF)

  4. Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The initial symptoms of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) are mood instability, agitation, mental confusion and throat petechiae, then soon nosebleeds, vomiting and black stools. The liver becomes swollen and painful. Disseminated intravascular coagulation may occur as well as acute kidney failure, shock and sometimes acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Multiple choice

What is the effect of hydrogen fluoride on plants?

  1. It affects germination of seeds, root and stem.

  2. Necrosis and chlorosis

  3. It causes decay of leaves and fruits.

  4. Dryness of bud
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Hydrogen fluoride causes necrosis and chlorosis in plants.

Multiple choice

Jaundice is a symptom of disease of

  1. Kidney

  2. Liver

  3. Pancreas

  4. Thyroid
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Jaundice is caused by the buildup of bilirubin, a yellow pigment produced during the breakdown of red blood cells. The liver is responsible for processing and excreting bilirubin, so liver disease or dysfunction leads to jaundice as bilirubin accumulates in the blood and tissues.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not a common symptom of influenza?

  1. Sudden onset of chills

  2. Appearance of irritating rashes on the body

  3. Discharge from nose

  4. Muscular pain

  5. Inflammation of respiratory mucosa
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Although rashes are reported in 2% of the cases in influenza, but it is not a common symptom of influenza. Hence, it is the correct answer.

Multiple choice

Councilman bodies are seen in

  1. alcoholic cirrhosis

  2. Wilson's disease

  3. acute viral hepatitis

  4. none of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Councilman bodies are apoptotic hepatocytes with eosinophilic cytoplasm and pyknotic nuclei, pathognomonic for acute viral hepatitis. They represent individual cell death from viral injury. Alcoholic cirrhosis shows Mallory bodies, while Wilson's disease demonstrates copper accumulation.