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Diseases - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 19 times
- The average score is 7 of 26
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Most common disease caused by demyelination of the CNS | Multiple sclerosis | 85%
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| Bacterial disease spread through water, leads to watery diarrhoea dehydration and potentially death if untreated. | Cholera | 62%
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| Genetic disease that leads to an uncontrolled mucus secretionclogging up the lungs and other places. | Cystic fibrosis | 54%
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| Caused by a branch of clostridium bacteria, leads to painful long lasting muscle spasm. It does this by preventing release of inhibitory neurotransmiters GABA and glycine at the start of motor neurones. | Tetanus | 54%
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| Compresion of the flexor retinaculum, categorised by thenar wastage and tingling in the first 3 and a half digits. | Carpal tunnel syndrome | 46%
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| A collection of blood in the pleural space. | Haemothorax | 46%
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| Highly infectious disease, starts similar to a cold, but leads to on going heavy coughing with a very distinctive sound. | Whooping cough | 38%
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| Neuropathy affecting C5/C6 nerves, resulting in waiter's tip deformity. | Erb's palsy | 31%
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| Where your stomach protrudes through your diaphragm in to the chest. | Hiatus hernia | 31%
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| Genetic disease of the connective tissue of the body. People who have it tend to be very tall (an example being Abraham Lincoln) and have a very dilated aorta. | Marfan syndrome | 31%
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| Neuropathy affecting C8-T1, leads to a claw hand, the same deformity that Kaiser Wilhelm had. | Klumpke's palsy | 23%
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| When a child's body turns into an adults too soon. | Precocious puberty | 23%
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| Back flow of blood through valves in the heart. | Stenosis | 23%
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| Tendon of a finger becomes inflamed/swollen leading it to catch on the tendon sheath during extension. | Trigger finger | 23%
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| Serious condition in which the inner layer of the aorta splits, leading to blood to surge into the space between the inner and middle layers leading to them seperating. | Aortic dissection | 15%
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| Caused by a thickening of palmar connective tissue into nodules, leading to reduced ability to extend fingers, typically effects ring finger first. | Dupuytren's contracture | 15%
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| A tumour/fluid filled swelling that normally arises on top of a joint or tendon. | Ganglion cyst | 15%
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| A connection between the pulmonary artery and the aorta | Patent ductus arteriosus | 15%
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| Caused by mutations that lead to defects in neuronal proteins. Resulting in distal muscle wastage and lose of sensation. | Charcot marie tooth disease | 8%
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| Rare disoder in which your immune system starts to attack your PNS. | Guillain barré syndrome | 8%
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| Inflamation of extensors of the forearm, a common injury of tennis players. (medical term) | Lateral epichondylitis | 8%
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| A whole between the left and right atrium that did not fuse during birth. | Patent foramen ovale | 8%
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| Name given to the mutation that Queen Elizabeth I supposedly had, where one has an additional digit on their hand. | Polydactyly | 8%
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| May be cause by a pancoast tumour, is a disruption of nervous stimulation of the face, normally on one side, leads to drooping eye lid, and decreased pupil size to name a few symptoms. | Horner syndrome | 0%
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| High cholesterol levels. | Hypercholestrolaemia | 0%
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| Mannose residues not phosphorylated leading to a build up of molecules in the intracellular matrix that need to be broken down by lysosomes. | Mucolipodosis II | 0%
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