Nutrition

Question 1

severe calorie def

Answer 1

marasmus

Question 2

severe protein def

Answer 2

kwashiorkor

Question 3

vit B1 (thiamine) def

Answer 3

beriberi

Question 4

B1 def with peripheral neuropathy, foot drop

Answer 4

dry beriberi

Question 5

B1 def with heart failure, swollen ank.es, and tachycardia

Answer 5

wet beriberi

Question 6

B1 def causing confusion, confabulation, and coma in alcoholics

Answer 6

Wernicke-Korsakoff synd

Question 7

cheilosis (cracked lips), glossitis, and seborrheic dermatitis

Answer 7

B2 def (hyporiboflavinosis)

Question 8

pellagra (4 D’s)

Answer 8

B3 (niacin) def

Question 9

4 D’s of pellagra

Answer 9

Diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and Death

Question 10

V-shaped dermatitis on chest (Casal’s necklace)

Answer 10

B3 (niacin) def

pellagra

Question 11

neural tube defect (spina bifida) and megalobastic anemia

Answer 11

B9 (folic acid) def

Question 12

fatigue and beef-red tongue

Answer 12

megalobastic anemia

Question 13

pernicious anemia

Answer 13

B12 def

Question 14

lack of intrinsic factor from parietal cells

Answer 14

pernicious anemia

Question 15

causes of pernicious anemia

Answer 15

dietary def or poor absorption (terminal ileum dz)

Question 16

causes macrocytic normochromic anemia and spinal cord degen

Answer 16

B12 def

Question 17

fatigue, ataxia, upper motor neuron signs, urinary, and fecal incontinence

Answer 17

B12 def

Question 18

inability to hydroxylate proline and lysine residues in collagen (weak capillaries)

Answer 18

Vit C def

Question 19

bleeding/swollen gums, loose teeth, poor healing, and impaired bone formation

Answer 19

scurvy

Question 20

nyctalopia

Answer 20

night blindness

Question 21

xeropthalmia

Answer 21

dry eyes

Question 22

keratomalacia

Answer 22

soft cornea

Question 23

nyctalopia, xeropthalmia, keratomalacia

Answer 23

Vit A def

Question 24

rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults

Answer 24

Vit D def

Question 25

soft bones with bowed legs, rachitic rosary, and pectus carinatum

Answer 25

rickets

Question 26

loosers zones

Answer 26

osteomalacia

Question 27

RBC destruction and fatigue

Answer 27

hemolytic anemia

Question 28

hemolytic anemia

Answer 28

Vit E def

Question 29

abnormal umbilical bleeding

Answer 29

hemorrhagic disease of newborn

Question 30

hemorrhagic disease of newborn

Answer 30

Vit K def

Question 31

retardation, hoarse cry, thick scrotal tongue, and umbilical hernia

Answer 31

cretinism (infant hypothyroidism)

Question 32

myxedema and goiter in adults and cretinism in infants

Answer 32

iodine def

Question 33

microcytic, hypochromic anemia

Answer 33

Iron def

Question 34

iron-def anemia + glossitis with dysphagia in post-menopausal women

Answer 34

Plummer-Vinson synd

Question 35

Arthritis, Bronze skin, Cirrhosis, DM, Erection problems

Answer 35

hemochromatosis

Question 36

excessive iron absorption

Answer 36

hemochromatosis

Question 37

excessive copper aborption

Answer 37

Wilson’s dz

Question 38

coarse flapping tremor of the wrist

Answer 38

asterixis

Question 39

parkinson-like tremors

Answer 39

basal ganglia degen

Question 40

Asterixis, Gasal ganglia degen, Cirrhosis, Dementia, Eye lesions (Kayser-Fleisher rings)

Answer 40

Wilson’s dz

Question 41

Wernicke-Korsakoff synd

Answer 41

Vit B1 (thiamine) def