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1. 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)

2. The term "thromboembolic disease" comprises:

pulmonary embolism and brain embolism (both of thrombotic origin)
phlebothrombosis and pulmonary embolism
thrombophlebitis and pulmonary embolism
pulmonary embolism from phlebothrombosis (class A) and pulmonary embolism from thrombophlebitis (class B)

3. Classical Virchow-Rokitanski triad does not include

alteration of blood flow (stasis or turbulence)
abnormality of blood coagulation (hypercoagulability)
medical history of thrombosis or embolism
injury of vessel wall (endothelial injury or dysfunction)

4. Three most important anticoagulation systems do not include

heparin-antithrombin
protein C-trombomodulin-protein S
Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor – TFPI
plasminogen-plasmin

5. Dysphagia is:

A subjective symptom
An objective sign
An objective sign, that, however, a patient has to tell the physician he is suffering from
A subjective symptom, that, howver, does not include the pain (in case of pain odynophagia is the correct)

6. Synonymic term for pre-esophageal dysphagia is:

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

7. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) belongs to:

Functional bowel disorders
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Precanceroses
Consequences of amoebic colitis

8. Sideroblasts

are a sign of disorder of iron incorporation into heme
are pathognomic for sideropenic anemia
are phagocyting cells in spleen (and liver), that take part in recycling of iron back to bone marrow by removing old and altered erythrocytes from the blood flow
jsou nezralé buňky červené řady typické pro hemochromatózu

9. Lipases by their nature belong to

hydrolases
transferases
lyases
ligases

10. Common signs of Crohn disease do not include:

Diarrhea
Pain
Constipation
p-ANCA positivity with ASCA (antibodies against S. cerevisiae) negativity