Foundations
Normal structure and function — anatomy, physiology, biochemistry. 29 questions.
A 24-year-old man presents with two hours of palpitations. He is alert, has no chest pain, and his blood pressure is 124/76 mmHg. The radial pulse is regular at…
Physiology · Foundations · common
A 34-year-old man is seen in the medical tent 20 minutes after finishing a marathon run on a cool, overcast morning. He drank water at every drink station. He h…
Physiology · Foundations · common
A 4-year-old girl has had puffy eyelids each morning for two weeks and now has swollen legs and a distended abdomen. Her blood pressure is 96/58 mmHg. Urine tes…
Physiology · Foundations · common
A 74-year-old man is reviewed on the ward because he has become drowsy. He is cold and mottled to the mid-forearms. Pulse 108 beats per minute and regular; bloo…
Physiology · Foundations · common
A 62-year-old man describes tightness across the chest when he walks up the hill to his home; it settles within three minutes of rest. He first noticed it a mon…
Physiology · Foundations · common
A 24-year-old man is brought to the emergency department 40 minutes after he came off his motorcycle. He has a closed fracture of the right femur and a tense, s…
Physiology · Foundations · common
A 22-year-old man is struck in the left lower chest by a cricket ball. Two hours later he has constant pain at the tip of the left shoulder, worse when he lies…
Anatomy · Foundations · common
A 26-year-old man is referred after a harsh systolic murmur is heard at a pre-season sports medical. He has no symptoms and plays club football. Echocardiograph…
Anatomy · Foundations · common
A 44-year-old man has had drooping of the right side of his face for three days. He drools from the right corner of his mouth, the right nasolabial fold is flat…
Anatomy · Foundations · common
A 58-year-old man had a segment of superficial vein harvested from the right leg for a coronary bypass graft. The incision ran from just below the knee to the f…
Anatomy · Foundations · common
A 24-year-old man is stabbed in the right groin, the wound lying just below the inguinal ligament. Bleeding is controlled in the emergency department. He cannot…
Anatomy · Foundations · common
A 24-year-old man returns to clinic three weeks after coming off his motorbike onto his right shoulder. Radiographs at the time showed a fracture through the su…
Anatomy · Foundations · common
A 26-year-old woman has painless enlargement of several cervical lymph nodes, night sweats and generalised itch. She has no recent dental infection, cat exposur…
Haematology and Oncology · Foundations · common
A patient with profuse watery diarrhoea caused by enterotoxin receives an oral solution containing sodium and glucose. Before treatment, stool output is high an…
Biomedical Science · Foundations · common
An enzyme catalyses conversion of substrate S to product P. Without inhibitor, Vmax is 120 μmol/min and the Michaelis constant is 4 mmol/L. In the presence of i…
Biomedical Science · Foundations · common
In a study of community-dwelling individuals, researchers observe varying prevalence rates of asymptomatic bacteriuria.In which of the following populations is…
Year 1 · Foundations · common
A biopsy of the tracheal epithelium shows a single layer of cells with nuclei at different levels, cilia, and mucus-secreting goblet cells. Which of the followi…
Year 1 · Foundations · common
Which function is performed by stratified cuboidal epithelium?
Year 1 · Foundations · common
Which of the following is a location of stratified cuboidal epithelium in the body?
Year 1 · Foundations · common
What is the main function of stratified squamous epithelium?
Year 1 · Foundations · common