Endocrine
Type of endocrine signaling in which a cell secretes a hormone that binds to receptors on the same cell
Autocrine
Most common BRCA gene mutation associated with breast cancer in men
BRCA-2 (do not accept BRCA alone)
Recommended hand hygiene intervention to limit outbreaks of Clostridioides difficile infection
Hand washing with soap and water (accept hand washing)
Vitamin ingestion that may cause false negative urine dipstick for blood
Vitamin C (accept ascorbic acid)
Most common pulmonary-related symptom in lung cancer
Cough
Which autoantibody are strongly associated with immune mediated T1DM
Anti glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD)
Anti tyrosine phosphatase IA-2 (TPIA-2)
Phenomenon in which successive generations display earlier or more severe manifestations of a genetic condition
Anticipation
Noninfectious morphological form of Giardia that adhere to the mucosa of the small bowel
Trophozoites
Expected physiologic changes in serum osmolality and sodium during pregnancy
Decrease in both serum osmolality and sodium
Breast cancer type most commonly associated with mammographic microcalcifications
Ductal carcinoma in-situ
Condition for which the Ferriman-Gallwey scale is used to assess severity
Hirsutism (accept abnormal hair growth)
Cutaneous hypersensitivity reaction strongly associated with carbamazepine therapy in patients with the HLA-B1502 genotype
Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis (accept SJS/TEN or either entity alone)
Most common viral cause of recurrent benign lymphocytic meningitis
Herpes simplex virus, type 2 (accept HSV-2; do not accept HSV alone)
Hallmark feature of nephrotic syndrome is 24 hour
urine protein excretion greater than?
>3500
Term for two or more primary malignancies arising independently of one another within 6 months of the index tumor
Synchronous multiple primary malignancies (accept synchronous multiple primary tumors; synchronous malignancies; synchronous tumors)
Indicated laboratory test in thyrotoxicosis with suppressed TSH and normal T4 level
Triiodothyronine (accept T3 or Free T3)
Epigenetic phenomenon that causes autosomal genes to be expressed in a parent-of-origin-specific manner
Imprinting
Herpes simplex virus, type 2 (accept HSV-2; do not accept HSV alone)
Multiple chancres
Reabsorption of these two minerals in the thick ascending limb is indirectly inhibited by blockade of the NKCC channel by loop diuretics
Magnesium and calcium
Tumor cells release contents into bloodstream spontaneously or as result of
treatment
Tumor Lysis Syndrome
Infectious complication of the external genitalia and perineum associated with sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors
Necrotizing fasciitis (accept Fournier gangrene)
Term for the study of antiparallel RNA strands produced by the genome in a specific cell
Transcriptomics
Bacterial genus associated with cellulitis in patients treated with leeches
Aeromonas
Acid-base disorder associated with high dose propofol infusion
Anion-gap metabolic acidosis (accept lactic acidosis; do not accept metabolic acidosis alone)
Most common histology for renal cell carcinoma
Clear cell