The most common genetic cause of mental retardation
What is Down Syndrome?
100
This nutritional category is characterized by polysaccharides, disaccharides, and monosaccharides
What are carbohydrates?
100
Stimulated by gastrin and secreted by parietal cells in the stomach, this substance decreases the stomach pH
What is gastric (hydrochloric) acid?
100
This term refers to the volume of air inspired or expired with each normal breath
What is tidal volume?
200
This term refers to the highest arterial pressure during the cardiac cycle; measured while the ventricle is contracting and blood is being ejected into the arterial system
What is systolic pressure?
200
This bone disorder may be characterized by abnormal type 1 collagen, multiple fractures and blue sclera
What is osteogenesis imperfecta?
200
Glucose is stored as this, primarily in the liver and muscle
What is glycogen?
200
This yummy food is commonly found at the ballpark, often served with pickle relish or sauerkraut
What is a hot dog?
200
This is a general term for muscles that are used for breathing during exercise and in respiratory distress, but not used during normal quiet breathing
What are accessory muscles?
300
This congenital heart defect consists of VSD, pulmonary stenosis, right ventricular hypertrophy, and dextrorotated aorta
What is Tetralogy of Fallot?
300
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This term refers to the situation when the severity of disease worsens, or the age of onset is earlier, in succeeding generations
What is anticipation?
300
This parameter is determined by the following formula:
patient's body weight in kilograms x 24
What is basal metabolic rate (BMR?)
300
This hormone stimulates contraction of the gallbladder and simultaneously causes relaxation of the sphincter of Oddi
What is cholecystokinin (CCK?)
300
This term refers to collapse of the small alveoli
What is atelectasis?
400
This term refers to the distensibility of blood vessels; it is inversely related to elastance (stiffness)
What is compliance?
400
This terms refers to nondisjunction of chromosomes during mitotic division in the early embryonic period; 2 chromosomally different cell lines are derived from a single fertilized egg
What is mosaicism?
400
In ethanol metabolism, this is the limiting reagent
What is NAD+
400
This disorder of pancreatic secretion results from a defect in chloride channels
What is cystic fibrosis?
400
This nerve innervates the diaphragm
What is the phrenic nerve?
500
This term refers to the interval from the beginning of the P wave to the beginning of the Q wave
What is the PR interval?
500
This is a mode of inheritance in which affected females transmit the mutant gene to all their children; affected males do not transmit the mutant gene to any of their children
What is mitochondrial inheritance?
500
Coumarin derivatives act as anticoagulants by inhibiting the activity of this enzyme
What is epoxide reductase?
500
This disease is characterized by crypt abscesses, ulcers and bleeding, with no granulomas
What is ulcerative colitis?
500
Mature levels of surfactant can be determined by the ratio of these two substances in amniotic fluid