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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

What will happen if we eat spoiled food?

  1. We will suffer from insomnia.

  2. We will feel hungry and tired.

  3. We will suffer from food poisoning.

  4. We will suffer from malaria.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

By eating spoiled food, we can suffer from food poisoning accompanied by vomits and nausea.

Multiple choice

Which of the following sets represents communicable diseases?

  1. Osteoporosis, Hypertension, Cancer

  2. Hypertension, Cancer, Tuberculosis

  3. Tuberculosis, Measles, Osteoporosis

  4. Tuberculosis, Pertussis, Cancer

  5. Tuberculosis, Measles, Pertussis
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Tuberculosis is a communicable disease that is caused by bacteria that attack the lungs or other parts of the body such as the kidney, spine or brain. TB spreads from person-to-person through the air. When a person with active TB coughs or sneezes TB bacteria get in the air. Anyone who has close and frequent contact with a person with active TB disease can breathe in the bacteria and become infected. Measles is a highly contagious respiratory illness caused by a virus. Measles is spread person-to-person when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or shares food or drinks. Pertussis (whooping cough) is a very contagious bacterial disease of the lungs and respiratory system. Pertussis spread by tiny wet drops produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks.

Multiple choice

What causes the abnormal growth of the tumor in cancer?

  1. Abnormal mitotic division

  2. Accumulation of body fluid

  3. Abnormal meiotic division

  4. Metastasis

  5. Extra sensitivity to antigrowth signals
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Abnormal growth of the tumor results by abnormal tendency of mitosis in the tumor cells. These keep on dividing and results into tumor.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is a symptom of sick animal?

  1. Gain of appetite

  2. Loss of appetite

  3. Normal posture

  4. Improved milk output
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Unhealthy condition of the body or the mind is referred to as the ‘sick’ state. Loss of appetite is one of the common symptoms of a sick animal.

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the information given below and answer the question that follows:

The classic clinical syndrome is a seborrhoeic dermatitis-like eruption, atrophic glossitis with ulceration, angular cheilitis, conjunctivitis, intertrigo, and neurologic symptoms of somnolence, confusion and neuropathy.

The deficiency of which vitamin is explained in the passage given above?

  1. Thiamine

  2. Pyridoxine

  3. Biotin

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

The classic clinical syndrome for vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) deficiency is a seborrhoeic dermatitis-like eruption, atrophic glossitis with ulceration, angular cheilitis, conjunctivitis, intertrigo, and neurologic symptoms of somnolence, confusion and neuropathy.

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.