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Menstrual cycle phase between the first day of menses and ovulation
Follicular phase
Essential serological finding in rheumatoid vasculitis
High titers of rheumatoid factor (accept rheumatoid factor)
Valvular abnormality associated with systolic and diastolic 'pistol shot' sounds heard over the femoral artery
Aortic regurgitation
Class of drugs that consist of monoclonal antibodies targeting cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CLTA-4)
Checkpoint inhibitors (accept immune checkpoint inhibitors)
Parasitic disease whose name derives from the Italian 'bad air'
Malaria
Radiologic description suggestive of a flattened or absent pituitary gland
Empty sella (accept empty sella syndrome)
Largest knee bursa located between the kneecap and overlying skin
Prepatellar bursa
Time duration that differentiates sustained from non-sustained ventricular tachycardia
30 seconds
Eponymous name for a malignant umbilical nodule
Sister Mary Joseph nodule (accept node)
German physician credited for the discovery of the causative organism for tuberculosis
Robert Koch
Additional endocrine disorder initially cotreated in patients with suspected myxedema coma
Adrenal insufficiency
Name of connective tissue that runs from the ilium to the anterolateral aspect of the proximal tibia
Iliotibial band
Inhibition of this endopeptidase raises levels of circulating natriuretic peptides for treatment of heart failure
Neprilysin (do not accept sacubitril)
Term for a radiotherapy treatment regimen in which the total radiation dose is divided into large treatments and given over a shorter time period than standard therapy
Hypofractionated (accept hypofractionation)
Organism ingested by internist Barry Marshall to prove its infectivity and association with disease
Helicobacter pylori
Eponymous phenomena occurring when excess iodine intake acutely inhibits thyroid hormone synthesis
Wolff-Chaikoff effect
Clinical condition associated with the frontoparietal 'en coup de sabre' lesion
Linear scleroderma (accept scleroderma)
Cardiac abnormality associated with platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome
Interatrial shunt (accept patent foramen ovale (PFO); atrial septal defect; fenestrated atrial septal aneurysm)
Phenomenon in which large areas of cells develop carcinogenic potential through repeated exposures
Field cancerization (accept field change, field carcinogenesis, cancer field effect, or premalignant field defect)
Physician credited with first describing digital clubbing
Hippocrates (also known as Hippocratic fingers or nails; considered the oldest sign in clinical medicine)
Term for hypothyroidism resulting from paraneoplastic expression of type 3 iodothyronine deiodinase
Consumptive hypothyroidism
Virus associated with multicentric Castleman disease
Human herpesvirus 8 (must indicate number)
Cardiac abnormality associated with platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome
Interatrial shunt (accept patent foramen ovale (PFO); atrial septal defect; fenestrated atrial septal aneurysm)
Term for the time from when a cancer treatment is started until that treatment is no longer controlling the tumor
Progression-free interval (accept progression-free survival)
Infectious disease prevention practice named for the Italian words meaning 40 days
Quarantine (quaranta giorni - holding arriving ships at anchor for 40 days before landing)