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Daibeetus
Diabolical Metabolism
100

This muscle elevates the eyebrows and wrinkles the forehead during surprise.

What is the occipitofrontalis?

100

What is the nerve compressed in carpal tunnel syndrome, whose damage causes wasting of the thenar eminence and loss of sensation to the lateral three and a half fingers?

What is Median nerve 

100

How many tarsal bones are there (in each foot)?

what is 7

100

 What is the hallmark of T2DM (refering to the failure of tissues to adequately respond)

Insulin Resistance

100

Brown adipocytes perform this function

What is Thermogenesis 

200

This cranial nerve supplies the muscles of facial expression.

What is the facial nerve (CN VII)?

200

What is the deep thenar muscle that rotates and flexes the first metacarpal to bring the thumb pad into contact with the other fingers, supplied by the recurrent median nerve?

Opponens pollicis

200

What are the ligaments that make up the lateral collateral ligament?

Anterior talofibular    Posterior talofibular    Calcaneofibular

200

What is the definition of T2DM

Hyperglycaemia due to insulin resistance and relative  lack of insulin

200

Intermittent fasting has these benefits over the first 6 months 

What is weight loss and Hba1c

300

This muscle is known as the “kissing muscle.”

What is the orbicularis oris?

300

What are the three muscular tendons that contribute to forming the boundaries of the anatomical snuffbox?

What is APL, EPL, EPB

300

Name one muscle responsible for plantarflexion and its attachments.

Gastrocnemius (femur to calcaneus)    Soleus (prox. tibia to calcaneus)    Plantaris (femur to calcaneus)

300

What are 3 mechanisms that can lead to B-cell faliure

Any 3 of: insulin resistance, increased metabolic load, systemic inflammation, inflammatory stress, ER stress, metabolic/oxidative stress, Amyloid stress, stressed islet integrity

300

This enzyme is responsible for intracellular amino acid digestion

Cytosol Peptidase

400

These are the only four muscles of the face not supplied by CN VII. Bonus point: This nerve division does.

What are the muscles of mastication? What is Mandibular of the trigeminal nerve?

400

What is the bony origin of the common extensor tendon degeneration from repetitive wrist extension causes tennis elbow?

What is Lateral epicondylitis

400

What nerve innervate the lateral compartment of the leg?

Superficial fibular nerve

400

What are the effects of insulin resistance on adipose tissue, the liver, and skeletal muscle

Adipose:  impaired suppression of lipolysis, leads to increased circulating FFA Muscle: fat accumulation in muscle Liver: reduced suppression of gluconeogenesis

400

These two transporters facilitate the absorption of monosaccharides from the gut

SGLT1 (Glucose/Galactose) + GLUT 5 (Fructose)

500

This muscle compresses the cheek during blowing and chewing.

What is the buccinator?

500

What is the anterior bony projection of the proximal ulna that prevents hyperextension of the elbow and is fractured in posterior elbow dislocations?

The coronoid process

500

Name the brances of the popliteal artery and their branches.

Anterior tibial artery --> dorsalis pedis    Posterior tibial artery --> medial plantar and lateral plantar

500

Mechanism of Insulin resistance in the liver (5 dot points)

Unrestrained B-oxidation leading to mitochondrial ROS - ceramides -DAGs - Inflam signaling - ER stress

500

These hormones initiate lipolysis 

Catecholamines via epinephrine and norepinephrine