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I ran into someone the other day who said "wow you look so pale, like you've seen a ghost". I slapped him and said I have localized complete loss of skin pigmentation. I have...
What is Vitiligo
Billy, an Olympic gymnast, presents with anterior knee pain that worsens with jumping and kneeling due to repetitive traction from the patellar tendon; identify the bony landmark where this condition occurs.
What is the tibial tuberosity
This nerve allows you to shrug your shoulders against resistance.
What is the Spinal accessory nerve (trapezius allows for resistance)
with all the beer Billy drinks, you'd think this muscle would be bigger...
what is brachioradialis
I asked a dermatologist working at Dominos if I could get a pizza without dry exudate. I knew they understood me when they gave me my order and it didn’t have any.
what is crust
I don’t know why they called my chronic inflammation of hair follicles and sebaceous glands “cute.” It’s caused by this anaerobic gram-positive rod — what’s cute about that?
What is Cutibacterium acnes
Kyle Monangai single handedly rushes across the field for a 80 yard TD to give the bears their 300th superbowl win. Unfortunately, on his run he hit many defenders directly on his coracoclavicular ligament causing rupture. He was later diagnosed with this shoulder injury.
what is shoulder (AC) separation
Madeleine accuses Billy of cheating in Ticket to Ride after he beats her. Billy puts his hands back in a “don’t be mad at me” gesture, bringing both scapulae towards the midline. The nerve that contributes most to this scapular action is.
What is the dorsal scapular nerve?
Compressed the axillary artery? no worries because this large artery in the neck has branches that anastamose around the scapula.
what is the subclavian artery
Hitting the ulnar nerve against this may seem "funny", but it's no laughing matter if it's fractured. Be specific
What is the medial epicondyle of the Humerus.
They said my cat was special… until he bit Sydney and gave her this. Now everyone thinks he’s pretty common — I mean it is the most frequent cause of infection from a cat bite. Be specific
What is Pasteurella Multocida
This kind of ossification doesn't need a cartilage template. It forms directly from mesenchymal tissue.
what is intramembranous ossification
After carrying his trivia team on his back, Billy develops numbness and tingling in his lower legs. Dr. Klopp diagnoses him with a herniated lumbar disc at the most common levels. This would cause radiculopathy of these two nerve roots.
what is L5 and S1
People think Billy knows everything because he never shrugs his shoulders. It actually turns out that he damaged his dorsal scapular nerve and his accessory nerve....What are the muscles that are associated with these nerves and would cause this clinical presentation?
what are the levator scapula and the trapezius respectively.
When I went camping, I didn’t get any cell signal the whole time… but I did scrape my leg on a tree branch and got this unilateral, warm, painful skin infection.
what is cellulitis
Sally asked santa for a christmas tree and all she got was this balding pattern on her head...I don't think that's what she meant Santa.
what is androgenic alopecia
This type of fracture can result in weakness with finger extension due to injury of the deep branch of the radial nerve, but is negative for wrist drop. Be specific.
what is radial head fracture
After winning the Masters, Billy retires from golf. In his post-career physical, he reports pain around the medial epicondyle of his humerus. The majority of muscles likely causing his symptoms are innervated by this nerve.
What is the median nerve
Morgan Freeman presents to Dr. Sydney with several months of progressive difficulty climbing stairs and rising from a seated position. He also reports trouble lifting objects overhead. Physical exam reveals symmetric proximal muscle weakness without skin changes. Laboratory studies show elevated creatine kinase (CK). What immune mechanism (cells) is/are predominantly responsible for this presentation
what are CD8 T cells
Much like the High School Musical hit “We’re All in This Together,” these structures hold keratinocytes tightly together in the skin. When these structures are disrupted by autoantibodies, they cause blistering skin in pemphigus vulgaris.
What are (desmoglein 1 and 3 of) desmosomes.
A patient has flaccid blisters and a positive Nikolsky sign due to autoantibodies against desmogleins, in contrast to another blistering disease with tense bullae caused by antibodies against hemidesmosomes; identify the epidermal layer where blistering occurs in the first condition.
What is the stratum spinosum
After accepting her 10th oscar, Isabel accidentally falls down the stairs and onto her right outstretched arm. While little to no erythema is noted, she does have pain to the floor of her snuffbox. She should be evaluated for this fracture.
What is the scaphoid
Following the Bears epic comeback to beat that team up north, Billy decides to celebrate at the local bar. He wakes up slightly hungover with sensory loss on the dorsum of his hand (lateral 3 1/2 digits). The nerve causing his symptoms would also primarily impair his ability to perform this thumb movement.
what is the radial nerve and extension of the thumb.
Pope Leo XIV has been blessing people constantly, to the point of concern even. I asked him to make a fist and instead he kept blessing me. What is the nerve that is responsible for this presentation.
what is the median nerve.
a Cult classic is defined as "something, typically a movie or book, that is popular or fashionable among a particular group or section of society." -Oxford Languages
however this component of a scaphoid fracture is anything but noticeable
what is occult
often goes unnoticed because the bone is small, irregular, and hairline fractures are hard to identify on imaging.