Practice quiz questions

After an accident, you are unable to workout for months and so your muscles (skeletal) are
looking smaller than usual. What has happened here?

- skeletal muscle fibres have lost some of their structural material

Which of the following would not be a result of cellular hypoxia?

- increased cellular oxidative phosphorylation

The mechanism of gangrene development in advanced diabetes would be

- localised ischaemia

What would be responsible for development of erythema in the sunburnt skin?

- localised hyperaemia

After being stung by a mosquito a person notices swelling of his arm. This swelling is likely to be
caused by

- increased vascular permeability

Why is regeneration the optimal repair process after injury?

- it restores normal histological structure of the injured tissue

Which of the following is the correct sequential order of the phases of healing after injury with
bleeding?

- haemostasis, inflammation, repair and remodelling

Reduced urinary output in heart failure occurs, among other things, due to

- increased release of aldosterone

The most common complication of acute myocardial infarction is

- arrhythmia

Serial blood cardiac markers are monitored in the patient with chest pain because positive
cardiac markers

- help determine if cardiac necrosis is occurring

The most common cause of heart failure is

- ischaemic heart disease

IgE antibodies are important in extrinsic asthma because they

- facilitate release of mediators from mast cells

Compensatory hyperventilation (increased minute volume of breathing) in emphysema is a
reason why patients rarely show

- increased level of carbon dioxide in blood

In lobar pneumonia affected lung tissue becomes consolidated as a result of presence of

________________ in alveolar spaces.

- inflammatory exudate

Alveolar oedema in left ventricular failure would be a direct consequence of

- increased alveolar capillary pressure

A 28-year-old person with 5 days history of fever, productive cough and shortness of breath is
found to have patchy and scattered shadowing in the lung tissue. The most likely cause is

- bronchopneumonia

The main abnormality in restrictive lung disease is

- decreased lung compliance

What is the significance of negative Mantoux test?

- it helps ruling out active tuberculosis

Which of the following statements is correct in regard to lung cancer?

- adenocarcinoma is the most common form

A person with lower limb weakness was found to have positive Babinski. What would be the
clinical significance of this finding?

- he is likely to have some form of upper motor neuron lesion

Concussed patient would be expected to show confusion, drowsiness, dizziness, headache and

- transient amnesia

Increased intracranial pressure can be associated with all of the following clinical features
EXCEPT

- resting tremor

Parkinson’s disease result from damage of the

- nigro-striatal tract

All of the following are types of dementia EXCEPT

- amyotrophic lateral dementia

Which of the following would not be a clinical feature of dementia?

 - spastic diplegia

Destructive and deforming polyarthritis would be an appropriate description of

- rheumatoid arthritis

A patient suspected of having ______________________ could be referred to bone quantitative

computed tomography.

- Osteoporosis

Which of the following would not be expected in myasthenia gravis?

- generalised paraesthesia

Positive pathological reflexes would suggest

- upper motor neuron injury