Potential Finals Questions Flashcards
A patient has dark, yellow stool, what does this indicate?
a.dysentery resulting from damp heat in Large Intestine
b. damp heat jaundice (steatorrhea)
c. heat stagnation in the Intestines
d. blood stasis or “far bleeding” (bleeding in upper GI)
c. heat stagnation in the Intestines
A patient has black stool like tar what does this indicate?
a.dysentery resulting from damp heat in Large Intestine
b. damp heat jaundice (steatorrhea)
c. hemorrhoids or “near bleeding” (bleeding in lower GI)
d. blood stasis or “far bleeding” (bleeding in upper GI)
d. blood stasis or “far bleeding” (bleeding in upper GI)
A patient has red blood in their stool, what does this indicate?
a.dysentery resulting from damp heat in Large Intestine
b. damp heat jaundice (steatorrhea)
c. hemorrhoids or “near bleeding” (bleeding in lower GI)
d. blood stasis or “far bleeding” (bleeding in upper GI)
c. hemorrhoids or “near bleeding” (bleeding in lower GI)
A patient has red (blood) and white (pus) in their stool, what does this indicate?
a. dysentery resulting from damp heat in Large Intestine
b. heat stagnation in the Intestines
c. hemorrhoids or “near bleeding” (bleeding in lower GI)
d. blood stasis or “far bleeding” (bleeding in upper GI)
a.dysentery resulting from damp heat in Large Intestine
A patient has grayish white stool, what does this indicate?
a.dysentery resulting from damp heat in Large Intestine
b. damp heat jaundice (steatorrhea)
c. hemorrhoids or “near bleeding” (bleeding in lower GI)
d. blood stasis or “far bleeding” (bleeding in upper GI)
b. damp heat jaundice (steatorrhea)
A hoarse voice, gradually increasing and worsening at night, with an itching and slightly painful throat indicate which of the following symptoms?
a. External dryness invasion
b. Lung and Kidney yin deficiency
c. Heat phlegm accumulation in the throat
d. Qi stagnation
b. Lung and Kidney yin deficiency
All of the following pathogenesis can cause aphonia, EXCEPT:
a. Lung and Kidney yin deficiency
b. Lung and Spleen qi deficiency
c. Kidney and Liver yin deficiency
d. Damp phlegm obstruction in Lung collaterals
c. Kidney and Liver yin deficiency
Rude and incoherent speech with cursing and shouting in a loud voice is known as:
a. Soliloquy
b. Raving
c. Delirium
d. Wrong speaking
b. Raving
Which of the following has the symptoms of difficult, short and rapid respiration, with a sense of tightness, congestion, and breathlessness or constriction in the chest?
a. Asthma
b. Wheezing
c. Upper stifling breath
d. Shortness of breath
a. Asthma
Which of the following is NOT caused by Lung qi failing to descend
a. Wheezing
b. Asthma
c. Upper stifling breath
d. Shortage of qi
d. Shortage of qi
Which of the following types of cough are characterized by paroxysmal and uninterrupted cough, even leading to vomiting, and making the sound like the call of a crane, flollowed by recurrences:
a. Diphtheria cough
b. Whooping cough
c. Chronic cough
d. Asthma cough
b. Whooping cough
All of the following symptoms are caused by rebellious Stomach qi EXCEPT:
a. Vomiting
b. Belching
c. Sighing
d. Hiccoughing
c. Sighing
A late stage lung cancer patient suddenly starts to hiccough. The hiccoughing is weak, interrupted, and recurs after long pauses. These symptoms indicate which of the following?
a. Stomach qi exhaustion
b. Stomach qi recovery
c. Stomach yin increasing
d. Yang qi increasing
a. Stomach qi exhaustion
Which of the following is indicated by the following signs and symptoms: sour and stinking odor in the mouth like rotten eggs, belching with foul odor, and acid regurgitation?
a. Gingivitis
b. Stomach fire flaring up
c. Food stagnation
d. Damp heat in the middle burner
c. Food stagnation
Rotten apple odor in the ward (patient’s room) indicates which of the folowing?
a. Syphilis
b. Later stage xião ke pattern
C. Later stage of yin-water pattern (uremia)
d. Profuse bleeding
b. Later stage xião ke pattern
Which of the following information should be included as present history
a. The onset of the disease
b. The characteristics of the main symptoms
c. The development of a disease
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
Inquiring about chills and fever can help the practitioner to do which of the following.
a. Infer the disease cause
b. Distinguish the disease location
c. Know the condition of yin and yang
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
Which of the following pathogenesis does NOT appear in low grade fever?
a. Deficiency of antipathogenic qi
b. Excess heat in the Stomach and Large Intestine
c. Qi and yin deficiency
d. Qi stagnation
b. Excess heat in the Stomach and Large Intestine
Chills or cold sensations that are not relieved by covering up or putting on more clothes indicates which of the following:
a. Yang deficiency
b. Interior cold pattern
c. Exterior pattern
d. Yin deficiency
c. Exterior pattern
All of the following etiologies and pathogeneses can cause low grade fever (heat) or feverish sensations, EXCEPT:
a. Blood stagnation
b. Yin deficiency
c. Yang deficiency
d. Exopathogenic cold attack
d. Exopathogenic cold attack
Which of the following symptoms belong to yáng ming fü pattern?
a. High fever
b. Alternating chills and fever
c. Low-grade fever in the afternoon and evening
d. High fever in the afternoon
d. High fever in the afternoon
When do simultaneous chills and fever occur?
a. Exterior pattern
b. Täi yáng pattern
c. Exopathogenic factor invading the defensive qi level
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
Which of the following is NOT a cause of continuous low-grade fever?
a. Yin deficiency
b. Qi deficiency
c. Blood deficiency
d. Stomach fire
d. Stomach fire
Profuse sweating on the palms and soles indicates which of the following:
a. Excessive heat in the Spleen and Stomach
b. Gallbladder qi deficiency
c. Excessive heat in the Lung
d. Kidney yin deficiency
a. Excessive heat in the Spleen and Stomach
