Final - Named disorders (by term)

Question 1

Colles fracture

Answer 1

a break at the lower end of the radius, often just above the wrist. Typically happens when someone extends their hands out to catch a fall

Question 2

Paget disease

Answer 2

chronic inflammation of the bones resulting in thickening and softening of bone matter

Question 3

Herben nodes

Answer 3

joint enlargement typically seen in cases of osteoarthritis

Question 4

Duchenne dystrophy

Answer 4

form of muscular dystrophy that affects children, boys more than girls; a sex linked disease; most children die before 30

Question 5

Ewing sarcoma

Answer 5

malignancy that develops in the primitive nerve cells in bone marrow

Question 6

Wilms tumor

Answer 6

Rapidly developing malignant neoplasm of the kidney that usually occurs in children

Question 7

Graafian follicles

Answer 7

small sacks in the ovaries from which the eggs derive. These structures rupture to release the egg (this rupture is called ovulation)

Question 8

Bartholin glands

Answer 8

lubricate the vagina during sexual excitement

Question 9

Trichomoniasis

Answer 9

STD caused by a protozoan that affects both males and females, though symptoms are more common in males. Symptoms include painful urination among a host of other unpleasant discharges from mucous membranes

Question 10

von Recklinghausen disease

Answer 10

condition of tumors growing on nerve endings, sometimes caused by excessive calcium in the blood

Question 11

Addison disease

Answer 11

disease caused by a lack of cortical hormones, usually occurs when the adrenal cortex is damaged or impaired. Symptoms include low blood sodium and high blood potassium, excessive urination to the point of being dehydrated

Question 12

Cushing syndrome

Answer 12

symptoms that come from excessive amounts of cortisol, ACTH, or both. Symptoms include thin extremities, thinning hair, easy bruising, slow wound healing, purple striae, increased body and facial hair,

Question 13

Guillan-Barre syndrome

Answer 13

autoimmune condition that causes acute inflammation fo the peripheral nerves in which myelin sheaths on the axons are destroyed. Weak nerve impulses and loss of reflex are sx

Question 14

Huntington chorea

Answer 14

inherited disease of the CNS characterized by quick, involuntary movements and mental deterioration

Question 15

Reye syndrome

Answer 15

acute encephalopathy and fatty infiltration of the brain, liver, and possibly other organs