Anatomy & Physiology
The most superficial layer of the skin.
What is Epidermis?
Increasing fluid intake and fiber helps manage this common digestive problem.
What is Constipation?
This vitamin, when taken before conception and during early pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of spina bifida.
What is Folic Acid?
The statement “One out of every 10 adults in Lebanon has depression” describes this measure that reflects how widespread a disease is within a population at a specific point in time.
This type of disorder involves excessive worry, fear, or nervousness that interferes with daily life.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
The largest and fifth paired cranial nerve.
What is the Trigeminal Nerve?
By binding to adrenergic receptors in airway smooth muscle, this drug class promotes bronchodilation and improves airflow.
What is a B2 agonist?
This fetal structure allows blood to flow directly from the right atrium to the left atrium.
What is a Foramen Ovale?
These observational studies analyze data from a population at a single point in time to identify relationships between variables.
What are Cross-Sectional Studies?
These drugs cause postsynaptic enhancement of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), leading to sedation, hypnosis, and CNS depression.
What are Barbiturates?
This hormone, secreted by the adrenal glands, is released in response to stress and increases heart rate and blood pressure.
What is Epinephrine?
The varicella-zoster virus lies dormant in this part of the nervous system after initial infection.
What are the dorsal root ganglia?
The most common causative agent of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease is this enterovirus.
What is Coxsackievirus?
This type of bias threatens the external validity of a study by limiting the generalizability of the results to a larger population.
What is Sampling Bias?
This treatment is indicated in patients with treatment-resistant depression or severe major depression that impairs activities of daily living.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
This portion of the brain acts as the body’s thermostat, regulating temperature, hunger, and thirst.
What is the Hypothalamus?
This complication occurs when high intrathoracic pressure from high PEEP reduces venous return and cardiac output.
What is Hypotension?
The early separation of a placenta from the lining of the uterus before the completion of the second stage of labor.
What is Placental Abruption?
This measure represents the percentage of true negatives among all individuals who do not have a disease or condition.
What is Specificity?
This triad of findings, neuromuscular hyperactivity, autonomic instability, and altered mental status, is characteristic of this toxic reaction.
What is Serotonin Syndrome?
This electrical event in the heart corresponds to ventricular repolarization on an ECG tracing.
What is the T-wave?
A systemic endothelial disease that hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) with refractory thrombocytopenia, hepatomegaly, ascites, and jaundice, and it can rapidly progress to multiorgan dysfunction and death.
What is Hepatic Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome (SOS)/ Veno-Occlusive Disease (VOD).
This rare but life-threatening complication occurs when amniotic fluid enters the maternal bloodstream, leading to respiratory distress and shock.
What is Amniotic Fluid Embolism?
This refers to the degree to which a test or instrument accurately measures the underlying theoretical construct it intends to measure.
What is Construct Validity?
This impulse-control disorder is marked by a repeated inability to resist the urge to steal items that hold no personal or monetary value.
What is Kleptomania?