Final Study Flashcards
What is a primary example of a positive feedback loop
Childbirth
A 13 -year-old male teenager presented to our emergency department in May 2018. He complained of fainting once and had a mild cough for 3 days and low-grade fever (38.0C) prior to admission. He had history of frequent respiratory infections and no chronic diarrhea. He was a second-born to non-consanguineous healthy parents, born full term after an unremarkable pregnancy.
His birth weight was 2.8 kg, and meconium was passed on the first day of life. No history of CF or other chronic pulmonary disease was found in his family. There are no known intermarriages with Caucasians in either family. On physical examination, he was undernourished with 30 kg body weight and 125 cm height. He had a BMI of 17.5, which was below the 3rd percentile for age.
On auscultation, diffuse fine crackles were present throughout both lung fields. Heat and abdomen were normal. Clubbing of the fingers was present.
Laboratory examination showed white blood cells 106 × 109/L, C reactive protein 11.33 mg/l, other tests including CBC, serum electrolytes, urine, and isolation of P. aeruginosa in sputum culture.
Chest radiograph: Bi-pneumonia. A Computed Tomography (CT) scan revealed right upper vesicles, bilateral bronchiectasis with obvious exudative lesions pulmonary fibrosis. What condition could this patient be suffering from?
cystic fibrosis
Liquidification of internal organs with infection would be considered what type of gangrene
wet
Example of involuntary muscle
small intestine
what is an example of the most common recessive allele
type o
Anti-port will exchange how many NA and K
3:2
Best imaging for a patient who suffered a concussion
MRI
Elastic cartilage would be seen in what part of the body
external ear
what is the primary energy reservoir of the body
Fat
The fetal skeleton is made up of what type of cartilage
Hyaline
Based on gravity which bone would carry the majority of the body weight
Tibia
24 year old man presented to the casualty and emergency care with a complaint of pain over the face and neck region following a road traffic accident. His symptoms on presentation were a constant and severe neck pain, localized on the left side, with marked odynophagia when opening his mouth, swallowing or speaking. The patient had no dyspnoea or signs of airway compromise. Physical examination revealed tenderness over right chin and malar region, entire right side of maxilla was mobile with a midline split of maxilla, avulsion of mandibular incisors, tenderness on palpation of left side of hyoid bone with no external wounds noticed on neck except for some blunt traumatic injuries. Occlusion was deranged with maximal mouth opening of 30 mm; opening the mouth over this limit was painful. Which Bone would be fractured
Hyoid
C1 atlas is known as a primary vertebrae for ___ of the neck
Rotation
A healthy 20-year-old male was playing tennis and fell into a wall… what bone did he fracture
scaphoid
The most commonly fractured carpal bone is
scaphoid
