Another medical quiz

I’m humbled by my readership’s vocabulary skills, and you know, I don’t do “humble” well. So, to restore my ego’s place in the firmament, I thought it would be fun to have another medical quiz, given that this one was quite popular.

Meet me below the fold for a medical vocabulary quiz.

1. Name this condition:

A. Lipidopsia
B. Steatorrhea
C. Megagluteus
D. Steatopygia
E. Lipidolalia

2. Intertrigo is

A. Entrapment of pubic hair during vigorous intercourse
B. A psychiatric term referring to compulsive circumlocution
C. Inflammation of the skin folds
D. Chronically ingrown armpit hairs
E. An exciting new board game from Milton Bradley

3. Chancroid is

A. A sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi
B. A common feature of primary syphilis
C. A dilated blood vessel obstructing the male or female urethra
D. An outdated (Middle Ages) term for hoof and mouth disease
E. An exciting new board game from Milton Bradley

4. Projax is

A. A drug (not approved by the FDA) whose sole purpose is to increase the volume of semen
B. A fourth generation cephalosporin antibiotic
C. The only medication on the market which helps men who are infertile due to immotile sperm
D. The third leading cause of blindness among adolescent males
E. An exciting new board game from Milton Bradley

5. What anatomical structure most closely resembles the snail shell, topologically?

Sorry for the easy one, but I love this picture.

A. The Islets of Langerhans
B. The fissures of Santorini
C. The punctum
D. The cochlea
E. The loop of Henle
Don’t know if this next one is easy or difficult. Let me know.

6. A bezoar is

A. An impaction in the digestive tract, usually composed of hair, fabric, or other foreign material
B. A parasitic disease caused by Schistosoma malkinii
C. An abscessed groin lymph node
D. The result of vitamin B12 deficiency
E. A medicinal leech species still used by plastic surgeons

7. How might you acquire this parasite, the cause of anisikiasis?

A. By wading into the Orinoco River
B. By having sex with farm animals
C. By eating bad maguro
D. By eating bad carnitas
E. By drinking that worm at the bottom of the tequila bottle

8. Echolalia is

A. A pathological condition in which the patient repeats what another person says
B. A pathological condition in which the patient repeats what another person says
C. A pathological condition in which the patient repeats what another person says
D. A pathological condition in which the patient repeats what another person says
E. Stop that!

9. The old term apoplexy is most closely approximated by the more modern term

A. myocardial infarction
B. epileptic seizure
C. apnea
D. cerebral hemorrhage
E. postconcussive syndrome

10. St. Anthony’s Fire is caused by

A. gonorrheal urethritis
B. Spanish Fly consumption
C. handling monastery prayer books contaminated by the mold Aspergillus nigricans
D. Mycobacterium leprae
E. ingestion of ergot toxin

I’ll let you stew on this for a while. See how many you can get without cheating.

Answers tomorrow.

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