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100
An infraorbital ethmoid cell that has pneumatized into the maxillary sinus.
What is a Haller cell?
100
This syndrome subtype is characterized by moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa that manifests later in life, but it features unaffected vestibular function.
What is Usher Type 2?
100
The most common bacterial cause of mastoiditis.
What is streptococcus pneumoniae?
Followed by streptococcus pyogenes and then staphylococcus aureus.
100
A definitive diagnostic marker for this lesion:
What is GLUT-1?
100
This allergen is often responsible for seasonal allergic symptoms in autumn.
What is ragweed?
100
Describe Mr. Bradshaw's hairline using the Norwood classification system.
Class 7 aka The Power Donut.
200
This is the most common type of temporal bone dysplasia in cases of congenital profound sensorineural hearing loss, characterized by cochleosaccular dysgenesis.
What is Scheibe Aplasia?
200
A syndromic form of hearing loss shared by 30-40% of Pierre Robin patients, caused by a defect in type 2 collagen.
What is Stickler syndrome?
Genes: COL2A1, COL11A1, COL11A2
200
The protein targeted by HPV vaccination.
What is the L1 capsid protein?
200
The branchial arch from which the long process of the incus is derived.
What is the second branchial arch?
200
An increase in this lab value is an indicator of successful immunotherapy.
What is IL-10, IL-12, IgG4 and IgA?
200
The percent of subglottic stenosis described by Cotton-Meyer Grade 2.
What is 51-70% stenosis?
300
This ligament has attachments to the lacrimal gland laterally and the trochlea medially, and it suspends the levator palpebrae superioris muscle.
What is Whitnall's Ligament?
300
This syndrome subtype, belonging to a syndrome characterized by congenital hearing loss and pigmentation deficiencies, uniquely manifests with hypoplasia of the upper limbs.
What is Waardenberg Type 3?
300
An antibiotic with two components that separately are bacteriostatic but when used together are bactericidal.
What is Bactrim (Trimethoprim / Sulfamethoxazole)?
300
A form of craniosynostosis characterized by premature fusion of the metopic suture.
What is Trigonocephaly?
300
These four cell markers are unique to T cells.
CD2, CD3, CD4, and CD8
300
The grade at which the risk of synkinesis first occurs within the Sunderland Nerve Injury Classification.
What is Grade 3?
400
A congenital deformity of the auricle in which there is a third crus.
What is Stahl's ear deformity?
(...could have just named it Third Crus Deformity)
400
The inheritance pattern of the syndrome that features widely spaced 1st and 2nd toes, conductive hearing loss secondary to ossicular malformations, cleft palate, and is due to a defect in the FLNA gene.
What is X-linked recessive?
Otopalatodigital syndrome.
400
An absolute neutrophil count below this threshold, along with increased levels of this serum component, are both associated with decreased survival in the setting of invasive fungal sinusitis.
What is an absolute neutrophil count below 1000 and increased serum iron?
400
This congenital anomaly, associated with complete tracheal rings, may be accompanied by anterior compression of the esophagus and right sided compression of the trachea.
What is pulmonary artery sling?
400
Secretion of this interleukin leads to the differentiation of TH17 cells.
What is IL-1?
400
The depth of the olfactory fossa for a Keros type 2 patient.
What is 4-7 mm?
500
A disease due to defective phytanic acid metabolism that is characterized by post-lingual severe SNHL, retinitis pigmentosa, and cerebellar ataxia.
What is Refsum disease?
500
The affected gene of an anion exchange protein responsible for an autosomal recessive form of syndromic hearing loss.
What is SLC26A4?
Pendred syndrome; Iodide/Chloride exchange protein that also participates in the secretion of bicarbonate in the kidney.
500
The route by which purulent meningitis causes sensorineural hearing loss.
What is the connection from the subarachnoid space to the basal turn of the scala tympani via the periotic duct (cochlear aqueduct)?
500
A structure derived from the 4th Hillock of His, which develops from this branchial arch.
What is the anti-helix crus and the second branchial arch?
500
This mediator, part of the TH1 immune response, will inhibit the production of IgE.
What is Interferon Gamma?
500
The grade at which circumferential burns are noted within the Zargar classification for chemical burns.
What is 2b?
