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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 30 year old man presented with 6 month history of nasal discharge, facial pain and fever. On antibiotic therapy, fever subsided. After 1 month again he had symptoms of mucopurulent discharge from the middle meatus and the mucosa of the meatus appeared congested and oedematous. Next best investigation would be

  1. MRI of the brain

  2. NCCT of the nose and para-nasal sinuses

  3. plain x-ray of the para-nasal sinuses

  4. inferior meatus puncture
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

NCCT (Non-Contrast CT) is the gold standard imaging modality for evaluating chronic sinusitis and recurrent nasal infections. It provides detailed visualization of the bony walls of the paranasal sinuses and identifies mucosal thickening, air-fluid levels, or osteomeatal complex obstruction. Plain X-rays are largely obsolete for this purpose. MRI of the brain is unnecessary as there is no intracranial pathology suggested. Inferior meatus puncture is an outdated diagnostic procedure rarely used today.

Multiple choice

Which one of the following is not a feature of DKA?

  1. Tachypnoea

  2. Bradycardia

  3. Abdominal pain

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

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) typically causes TACHYCARDIA as a compensatory response to volume depletion and metabolic acidosis, not bradycardia. Bradycardia would be an unexpected and unusual finding in DKA. The other options are classic features: tachypnea (Kussmaul respirations to compensate for acidosis), abdominal pain (common symptom), and dehydration (due to osmotic diuresis).

Multiple choice

Which of the following symptoms does not necessarily result from common cold?

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

THE COMMON COLD

Sneezes, and coughs, watery eyes, running noses and sore throats, are common sights that mark a person infected with the common cold. The common cold is a viral infection that seems incurable. The reason is that antibiotics and ordinary medicine cannot treat a viral infection. The additional reason is that the conditions, under which we say that somebody has caught a cold, can be brought about by a range of viruses that list more than a hundred. So, catching a cold, getting cured and developing immunity towards the virus that caused it doesn’t protect you from catching a cold again on the very next day. The next common cold virus in the line may be knocking on your door. Thoroughly washing your hands and not touching your face, remaining clean, and trying to avoid infected patients may help to prevent a common cold. You can avoid a common cold by good habits, but can’t cure it yet by medicines..

 

  1. Watery eyes

  2. Running nose

  3. High temperature

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

The passage lists: 'Sneezes, and coughs, watery eyes, running noses and sore throats' as common sights marking a person with common cold. High temperature/fever is not listed among these explicit symptoms in the passage.

Multiple choice

Some of the symptoms of fat deficiency include flaking of skin and emaciation and reduced functioning of the immune system and fertility problems.

  1. Some of the symptoms of fat deficiency include flaking of skin and emaciation and reduced functioning of the immune system and fertility problems.

  2. Some symptoms of fat deficiency include flaking of skin, emaciation and reduced functioning of the immune system and fertility problems.

  3. Some of the symptoms of fat deficiency include flaking skin, emaciation, reduced functioning of the immune system and fertility problems.

  4. Some symptoms of fat deficiency include flaking skin, emaciation, reduced functioning of the immune system and fertility problems.

  5. Some symptoms of fat deficiency are flaking skin, emaciation and reduced functioning of the immune system and fertility problems.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The question has many excessive words which can be eliminated without changing the meaning of the sentence. This is best portrayed in option (D), hence it’s the answer.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not a symptom of heart attack?

  1. Nausea and Sweating

  2. Numbness and aching of arms

  3. Squeezy feeling in chest

  4. Pain in legs
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Heart attack symptoms include chest pressure/discomfort, pain spreading to arms (especially left arm), nausea, sweating, and shortness of breath. Pain in the legs is NOT a typical heart attack symptom - it's more associated with peripheral vascular issues, deep vein thrombosis, or circulation problems. The other three options are well-documented heart attack warning signs.

Multiple choice

Excessive bilirubin in the blood, causes yellowing of eyes and urine is sign of

  1. Hernia

  2. Typhoid

  3. Jaundice

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

Jaundice is caused by excessive bilirubin in the blood, leading to yellowing of the skin, eyes, and urine. Bilirubin is a yellow pigment produced during the breakdown of red blood cells, normally processed by the liver. Hernia, typhoid, and mumps are unrelated conditions.

Multiple choice

Why does the skin appear yellow in jaundice?

  1. Liver gets infected, imparting yellow colour to the skin.

  2. Deposition of bile pigment causes the skin to be yellow.

  3. A jaundice patient becomes anaemic.

  4. The body becomes pale due to weakness.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

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Multiple choice

Which of these might occur if the blood circulation is blocked?

  1. Fever

  2. Headache

  3. Heart attack

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

Blocked blood circulation deprives tissues of oxygen and nutrients. When coronary arteries are blocked, heart muscle cells die from oxygen deprivation, causing a myocardial infarction (heart attack). Fever and headache have different causes; fractures are bone injuries, not circulation problems. This is why timely restoration of blood flow (e.g., angioplasty) is critical.

Multiple choice

The symptoms of Rheumatoid arthritis involve

  1. Inflammation in synovial membrane in synovial joints

  2. Affects only the cartilage at synovial joints

  3. Accumulation of uric acid crystals

  4. Swelling of bones on synovial membrane
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The membrane which is source of synovial fluid becomes inflammed .It produces large quantity of  fluid.

Multiple choice

Which among the following is not a symptom of mumps?

  1. Parotitis

  2. Deafness

  3. Pericarditis

  4. Pancreatitis

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

Pericarditis is an inflammation of the pericardium, which is the fibrous sac surrounding the heart. A characteristic chest pain is often present. This is not associtaed with mumps.