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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

A doctor advised a patient to take plenty of citrus fruits, guavas, tomatoes and amalas over a period of two months regularly. What do you think is the complaint of the patient?

  1. Blurred vision, burning and dryness of eye and tongue, cracking of skin of angle of mouth.

  2. Gums are spongy, swollen and bleed easily.

  3. Extreme weakness, swelling and pain in legs, loss of appetite and headache.

  4. Softness and pain in bones, bending of vertebral column.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Citrus fruits, guavas, tomatoes, and amla are all rich sources of Vitamin C. The doctor is treating Vitamin C deficiency (scurvy). Scurvy causes collagen synthesis impairment, leading to characteristic symptoms like spongy, swollen, and bleeding gums. Option A describes Vitamin A deficiency, Option C describes severe protein-energy malnutrition, and Option D describes Vitamin D deficiency (rickets/osteomalacia).

Multiple choice

Which of the following conditions results due to the depletion of acetyl choline at the nerve terminal?

  1. Fatigue

  2. Tone

  3. Muscle cramps

  4. Rigor mortis

  5. Hypertonia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Fatigue is a subjective feeling of tiredness which is distinct from weakness and has a gradual onset. Neuromuscular fatigue involves the depletion of acetylcholine which is a neurotransmitter released to stimulate skeletal muscles and the parasympathetic nervous system. Muscle contraction is then ended by the release of aceltylchlineterese from the muscle sarcomere.

Multiple choice

If a person is angry, which of the following effects will be observed in his body?

  1. Blood pressure decreases

  2. Conversion of glycogen into glucose

  3. Arterioles of the skin get relaxed

  4. Breathing rate decreases

  5. Breakdown of fat ceases
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

During excitement or anger, our adrenal glands produce a lot of adrenaline that increases the heart beat, blood pressure and breathing rate of a person. It also stimulates the conversion of glycogen into glucose, and fats into fatty acids.

Multiple choice

The early signs of malnutrition do not include

  1. sore mouth and tongue

  2. dry, scaly or rough skin

  3. bleeding from the gums

  4. bowing of legs
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

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.

Multiple choice

In trigeminal neuralgia which is the main symptom that patients often complain?

  1. Pain

  2. Dysuria

  3. Vomiting

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

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.

Multiple choice

All of the following are headaches of vascular origin except

  1. Giant cell arteritis

  2. Anesthesia dolorosa

  3. Cluster headache

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

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.

Multiple choice

In which of the following diseases, a person can be noticed with lock jaw symptoms?

  1. Rabies

  2. Polio

  3. Tetanus

  4. Tuberculosis

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

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..

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not a symptom of Dengue?

  1. Chills and headache

  2. Painful aching in legs and joints

  3. Backache

  4. Eyes become reddned

  5. Gland in the neck and groin are never swollen.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

It is a not symptom of Dengue. Gland in the neck and groin are often swollen in Dengue.

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.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
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.