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Pathophysiology and clinical medicine

1. Pre-esophageal dysphagia is accompanied by:

Heartburn
Epistaxis (bleeding from the nose)
Bleeding from the esophageal varices
Cough and recurrent pneumonias

2. Eponymic name for trisomy 18 is:

Down syndrome
Edwards syndrome
Patau syndrome
Turner syndrome

3. Alveolar air pressure is lower than atmospheric

during the whole inhalation
just before the inhalation begins; during the inhalation the alveolar pressure equals the atmospheric pressure
only in pneumothorax
alveolar air pressure is never lower than atmospheric pressure (contrary to intrapleural pressure)

4. Trombophilia means:

high platelet count in blood
abnormality of blood coagulation that increases the risk of thrombosis
inborn hemorrhagic diathesis, that - contrary to hemophilia – is not caused by missing any coagulation factor, but by platelet dysfunction
inborn hemorrhagic diathesis, that - contrary to thrombophobia – is not caused by platelet dysfunction, but by their extremely low count

5. Lipases by their nature belong to

esterases
proteases
protein kinases
glycerol kinases

6. Phospholipases do not belong to

Hydrolases
Lipases
Phosphodiesterases
Phosphorylases

7. Synonymic term for pre-esophageal dysphagia is:

Neurogenic dysphagia
Paraesophageal dysphagia
Psychogenic dysphagia
Gastro-esophageal reflux (GER)

8. Hemostasis means

synonymic term for coagulation (hemocoagulation)
mechanisms preventing exsanguination when integrity of vessel is altered
mechanisms responsible for the balance of physiological and biochemical parameters in organism
slowing the blood flow speed in vessels

9. Microcytic anemia is usually not

hypochromic at the same time
hyperchromic at the same time
caused by thalassemia
caused by repeated blood loss

10. Pachymetry is used in diagnostics of ...

Glaucoma
Pleuritis and mesothelioma (resulting in pachypleuritis)
Pachymeningitis
Paget disease