Transcript Medical Jeopardy

Medical Jeopardy
Digestive system
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The process by which bile makes fats
and oils ready for digestion by its
appropriate enzymes to break it
down
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What is emulsification?
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This condition represents a form of
varicose veins found in a most
unusual place
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What is a hemorrhoid?
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It is the opening of the esophagus
into the stomach
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Cardiac sphincter
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The medical name for “Crohn’s
Disease”
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Ulcerative colitis (autoimmune self
destruction of one’s alimentary
canal)
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It literally means “liver infection or
inflammation”
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What is hepatitis?
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It is the diagnosis when someone
has gall stones
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What is cholecystitis?
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It is the site where bile is stored
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What is the gall bladder?
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What presidents Adams, Roosevelt,
Bush, Johnson and Johnson all have
in common?
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They all represent a pair of
presidents with the same last names
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It is the color of bile after exposure
to light
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What is yellow?(bile is initially green
but in the blood when light goes
through the skin, it yellows thus you
have jaundice (yellow skin) when bile
is clogged up in the gall bladder from
gall stones. Jaundiced premature
babies have their jaundice bleached
by further UV light via sunlamps
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What Arthur Conan Doyle, Paul
McCartney, Lancelot, Geoffrey
Chaucer and Alexander Fleming all
have in common
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They are all “Sirs” or Lords of the
British empire knighted by the Queen
of England for service and loyalty to
the crown.
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It is the gland that produces
enzymes that empty into the
duodenum
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What is the pancreas? The liver is
wrong because it produces bile which
is not an enzyme but a soap like
emulsifying agent which prepares the
fat for the enzyme Lipase which is
not produced in the liver but by the
pancreas
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It covers the trachea when you
swallow
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What is the epiglottis?
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It is the location of the appendix
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What is the cecum?
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What Mary Shelly and Stephen King
have in common
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Both wrote horror stories (Shelly;
Frankenstein)
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His original name was Vlad the
Impaler
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Who was Dracula?
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This organ is probably vestigal and of
no use to humans anymore
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What is an appendix?
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Its function is primarily to reabsorb
water
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What is the large intestine?
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This former NBA Laker was the first
celebrity to admit he had AIDS back
in 1991
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Earvin “Magic” Johnson; his
frankness made AIDS openly
discussed and a national priority;
he’s still alive and virus free based
on blood test from new HIV meds
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It connects the stomach with the
jejunum
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What is the duodenum?
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The type of doctor one would visit for
a rectal problem
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Who is a proctologist?
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They are the two main portions of
the small intestine
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What are the ileum and jejunum?
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The type of doctor you would visit for
GERDS
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A gastroenterologist
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His former name was “The Rock”
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Dwayne Johnson
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In the current film “Olympus is
down”, what is Olympus?
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The White House
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These brothers made the first
sanitary napkins for women, the first
first aid kits, the first dental floss and
the first band aid
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Who were the Johnson brothers?
(Johnson and Johnson)
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Name five functions of the liver
To make hormones like sex hormones
and cortisone
 To make bile for emulsifying fats
 To make antibodies
 To make clotting factors like fibrinogen
and prothrombin
 To store iron
 To make hemoglobin
 The graveyard of RBC’s
 Chief detoxifying organ of the body
 Stores glucose as glycogen when
fasting
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These actually are the microscopic
sites of fat absorbtion in the intestine
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What are lacteals?
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These cells produce mucous while
these produce hydrochloric acid
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Goblet cells produce mucous while
chief cells produce HCl acid
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What do parietal cells produce?
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Three enzymes; a protease, a lipase
and an amylase for CH
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The only native born Texan to ever
become president of the U.S.
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Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson (both
Bush’s were born in Connecticut
before they moved here to drill for
oil).
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These are the four things a tongue
can sense
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What are sweet, bitter, salt, sour
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It means the stomach contents are
reaching the esophagus
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What is acid reflux? (GERDS)
GERDS=gastrointestinal reflux
disorder or “acid reflux”
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It describes the action of smooth
muscles on the intestines
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What is peristalsis?
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How the smooth muscles are
arranged in the alimentary canal
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Inner longitudinal fibers and external
annular (ring) fibers
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This instrument is essential for early
diagnosis of colon cancer
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What is a colonoscope?
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What early benign lesions in a
colonoscopy are called; two names
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Polyps /adenomas; removed at the
time of colonoscopy and they can’t
become malignant five to ten yrs
later and saves your life!
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The type of muscle found in the
tongue
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What is skeletal (voluntary muscle)?
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It controls the release of food in the
stomach into the duodenum
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What is the pyloric sphincter?
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It is the medication that makes you
vomit
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What is an emetic (ipecac is an
example)?
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It passes directly through the
stomach lining and is immediately
absorbed into the blood
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What is alcohol? Also most
medications and poisons
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These provide moistening and even
an enzyme to the bolus in the
mouth: name all of them
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What are salivary glands (called the
parotid, submandibular and
sublingual salivary glands: names
tell you where they are located)
This is a gland that has an exocrine as
well as an endocrine secretion
product because it secretes into the
blood as well as the digestive tract
on the inner surface of the
duodenum
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What is the pancreas?
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This “King” was born in Tupolo,
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Who was Elvis Presley? “King of
Rock” born in Tupolo, Mississippi
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Name five sections of the large
intestine and (a sixth for two points
total!)
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What is the cecum, ascending,
transverse, descending sigmoid colon
and rectum?
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Three types of hernias
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Inguinal, umbilical and
diaphragmatic (AKA hiatal hernia)
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Name the bones that anchor the
teeth
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What are the mandible and maxilla?
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The technical name for swallowing
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What is deglutition?
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The capital of Tibet is where this
breed of dog got its name
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Llasa Apsa
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The technical name for chewing
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What is mastication?
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The microscopic finger-like
projections of the small intestine that
absorb protein and carbohydrates
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What are villi?
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The folds and creases in the stomach
lining
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What are rugae?
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The first African American to win the
world heavyweight boxing
championship of the world (1908)
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Jack Johnson
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It stores iron so you don’t have to
eat it every day
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What is the liver? (or you could
simply eat this organ a lot)
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Two clotting factors produced by the
liver
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What are fibrinogen and
prothrombin?
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Stimulation of the stomach’s activity
is controlled by which nervous
system?
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What is the parasympathetic nervous
system?
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Which neurotransmitter would
stimulate the stomach’s activity?
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Acetylcholine
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Two drugs which block the acid
producing cells of the stomach lining
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pepcid, prilosec and prevacid) all
help block acid production preventing
ulcerations and reflux disease
What would the effect be of a drug
 which blocks Gastrin production?
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It’s a diet pill I.e. Alli OTC drug
which blocks the stomach hormone
from starting the digestion cycle so
no digestion, no gaining weight
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This Inspector is famous for tracking
the thief of a one of a kind pink
diamond
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Inspector Clouseau seeking the Pink
Panther jewel
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A patient complains that every time
they eat a fatty meal they get
excruciating pains in their upper
right quadrant. The likely cause of
this is a medical condition called, in
medical terms only!
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Cholecystitis
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A post partum female complains of
post partum rectal pain. A likely
cause of this is
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Hemorrhoids (varicose rectal veins)
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A baby is born with an enlarging,
prominent umbilicus. The doctor
might become concerned because
this condition might be developing.
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What is an umbilical hernia?
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A liver disease associated with
medical workers and drug addicts
using syringes
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What is hepatitis B (serum hepatitis)
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A liver disease associated with
children and their feces being
ingested
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Hepatitis A (self limiting hepatitis,
highly contagious by contact in any
way including sharing bottles and
kissing)
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A liver disease associated with
fibrosis (scarring) of the liver
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Cirrhosis usually the result of
alcoholism
Statistically, the most common cause
of gastric ulcerations
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What is stress?
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A type of hernia associated more
with men causing bowels to descend
into their scrotoms
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What is an inguinal hernia?
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The surgeon accidentally knicks the
appendix of the patient during
surgery. The feared consequence of
this is this
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What is peritonitis?
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The type of drug best suited to
treating constipation
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What is a laxative? (Ex-Lax)
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The exocrine pancreas produces
these three types of enzymes
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What are lipase, protease and
amylase?
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The hormone in the stomach’s lining
which stimulates the lining to
produce hydrochloric acid
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What is gastrin?
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The only enzyme found in the saliva
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What is salivary amylase for
carbohydrate digestion?
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The names of the three pairs of
salivary glands
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What are the parotid, sublingual and
submandibular glands?
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A child born without these would
probably have type one diabetes
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What are the isles of Langerhans?
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The endocrine pancreas secretes this
transport protein directly into the
blood
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What is insulin?(serves to transport
glucose out of your blood and into
your cells for metabolism to break it
down for energy) Diabetics can’t do
this so their blood is hyperglycemic
all the time
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Despite the patient eating absolutely
no cholesterol, the doctor
complained that the patient’s blood
cholesterol was too high. This is
explained by the following:
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The liver produces cholesterol which
is inherited and essential to the
production of certain hormones
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Name four substances you couldn’t
produce without cholesterol in your
liver producing them
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Estrogen, progesterone, testosterone
and cortisone
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An inflammation of the lining of the
intestine by bacteria or stress is
called this in medical terms
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What is enteritis? Gastroenteritis if
the stomach is involved
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It means, a herniation of the
intestinal tube making it bulge and
collect irritating food products
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What is diverticulitis?
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Montezuma’s revenge is a common
name for this medical condition
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What is diarrhea?
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Three symptoms of chronic diarrhea?
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What are hyperthermia, dehydration
and loss of potassium causing
muscle aches/weakness even an
arrhythmia of the heart
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This a an essential part of one’s diet
to stimulate and exercise one’s
intestines and reduce the risk of
cancer and constipation
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What is fiber (indigestible foodstuffs)
and you should have 25 grams a day
or eat the corn flakes box itself (lol)
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Crohn’s disease is an autoimmune
variation of this disorder
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What is ulcerative colitis?
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It is the name of the process of
sequentially contracting and relaxing
the smooth muscle of the alimentary
canal to move the chyme along
distally
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What is peristalsis?
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It means “pain on swallowing”
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What is dysphagia?
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It is used to promote a bowel
movement by the instilling of a
soapy solution in the rectum
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What is an enema?
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Gallstones are most commonly made
of this material
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Cholesterol and calcium
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The patient most likely to develop
cholecystitis?
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Fat, female, forty, fertile
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The type of hepatitis associated with
shellfish and day care centers
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Hepatitis A: self limiting type, clearly
symptomatic with malaise, jaundice,
but with a good immune system,
recovery in weeks or months.
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The hepatitis that is the silent killer
of doctors and rock stars because it’s
spread by needles in heroin usage
and handling trauma victims’ and
hemorrhages in surgery/ER, etc.
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Hepatitis C; no vaccine yet, no
symptoms, can be spread by blood
or sex. On the rise, you’ll need a
liver transplant once symptoms
develop for liver already very
damaged. FASTEST GROWING STD
IN THE WORLD; MAKES AIDS LOOK
NUMBERICALLY MINOR
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Three characteristics of Hepatitis B
Vaccine available and required for all
school children and healthcare
workers
 Contagious by blood and direct
inoculation, needle sharing so it’s
common among addicts
 Severe symptoms and hard to treat,
easier to prevent; Very common STD
and on the rise as one of the fastest
growing STD’s this year!
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On ships, this would be an
appropriate deck if you suffer
hyperactive peristaltic colonic activity
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The poop deck
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A movie about this condition could
be called “The Chickenpox will rise
again!”
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Shingles (herpes Zoster)
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I’m most contagious when you don’t
see me
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Herpes
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Three medications for genital herpes
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Valtrex, zovirax and acyclovir
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Where the anus is found
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The end