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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 general knowledge science & technology

which is the other name of kissing Disease?

  1. glandular fever

  2. filatov's disease

  3. pfeffier's disease

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

Infectious mononucleosis, commonly called 'kissing disease' because it spreads through saliva, has several alternate names including glandular fever. Filatov's disease and Pfeiffer's disease (note spelling variation in option) are historical names associated with this condition caused by Epstein-Barr virus.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

which of the following is communicable?

  1. wilson's disease

  2. elephantasis

  3. anthrax

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

Anthrax is a communicable infectious disease caused by Bacillus anthracis bacteria. It can spread through contact with infected animals or contaminated animal products, and in rare cases, through inhalation of spores. Wilson's disease is genetic, elephantiasis is vector-borne (not directly person-to-person), and anemia is a non-communicable condition.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Which of the following is communicable?

  1. sleeping sickness

  2. chicken pox

  3. elephantasis

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

Chicken pox (varicella) is a highly communicable viral disease that spreads easily through airborne droplets, direct contact, or contaminated surfaces. It's caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Sleeping sickness and elephantiasis are vector-borne (not directly person-to-person), and pharyngitis can be non-infectious or viral/bacterial but is less definitively communicable than chicken pox.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

the symptoms of tuberclosis are:

  1. Cough

  2. fever

  3. night sweats

  4. sneezing

  5. cold

  6. chest pain
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A,B,C,F Correct answer
Explanation

Tuberculosis (TB) primarily affects the lungs, leading to a persistent cough, chest pain, and coughing up blood. Systemic symptoms include fever, night sweats, and weight loss. Sneezing and cold are typical of viral upper respiratory infections.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Difficulty in opening the mouth is a symptom of..

  1. Cholera

  2. Plague

  3. Tetanus

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

Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani bacteria which produce a neurotoxin called tetanospasmin. This toxin causes severe muscle spasms and rigidity, classically beginning in the jaw muscles (lockjaw or trismus), making it difficult or impossible to open the mouth. The muscle rigidity then spreads to other parts of the body. Cholera causes watery diarrhea, plague causes swollen lymph nodes and fever, and diphtheria causes throat membrane formation.

Multiple choice

The horse has played a little known but very important role in the field of medicine. Horses were injected with toxins of diseases until their blood built up immunities. Then a serum was made from their blood. Serums to fight with diphtheria and tetanus were developed this way. It can be inferred from the passage that horses were

  1. given immunity to diseases

  2. generally quite immune to diseases

  3. given medicines to fight toxins

  4. given diphtheria and tetanus serums
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Option 2 files the sentense, as they built up immunities which helped humans create serums from their blood.

Multiple choice

Bladder cancer is a disease related to

  1. chromosome 3

  2. chromosome 4

  3. chromosome 5

  4. chromosome 6
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Bladder cancer is a disease related to chromosome 4. 54 cancer genes are located in this chromosome.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is a symptom of glaucoma?

  1. Feeling colour rings around a flame

  2. Feeling difficulty to see in dark light

  3. Feeling pain around the eyes in darkness

  4. Feeling headache and vomiting sensation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Feeling colour rings around a flame is a symptom of glaucoma.

Multiple choice

Which among the following statements characterises lung cancer in an individual?

  1. Screening test has been proved beneficial.

  2. More than 80% are due to smoking.

  3. In the patients of lung cancers, around 30% are large cell anaplastic.

  4. The second lung cancer is rare in an individual.

  5. Lung cancer does not produce pain in the chest.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

It is correct. 80% cases of lung cancer are due to smoking.Cigarette smoking is the most important cause of lung cancer. Cigarette smoke contains more than 5,000 chemicals, many of which are cancer causing.

Multiple choice

Which among the following molecules is/are involved in the gripping of cells to an extracellular matrix during a tumor progression in an individual?

  1. Cyclins

  2. Interleukins

  3. Angiostatin

  4. Integrins

  5. Kringle domains
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Integrins are a family of transmembrane glycoprotein receptors that mediate cell-matrix. They are involved in the anchoring of cells to an extracellular matrix. They affect tumour progression has made them an appealing target for cancer therapy.