Year 1
Along with connective, muscle, and nervous tissue, this is one of the four basic tissue types in the human body.
What is epithelium?
This clinical scoring system is used to assess the severity of community-acquired pneumonia and includes parameters such as confusion and urea levels.
What is the CURB-65 score?
The Glasgow Coma Scale assesses patient responsiveness using three specific criteria: Eye opening, Verbal response, and this response.
What is Motor response?
To be deemed to have capacity under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, a patient must be able to understand, retain, communicate, and do this with the relevant information.
What is Weigh (or Weigh up)?
To identify a femoral hernia, Paul tells you that you must know the boundaries of the femoral canal: the femoral vein laterally, the inguinal ligament anteriorly, the pectineal ligament posteriorly, and this ligament medially.
Yes Paul, What is the Lacunar Ligament?
This sociological concept, described by Talcott Parsons, outlines the rights and obligations of an ill individual, such as exemption from normal social duties.
What is the Sick Role?
In an inferior myocardial infarction, ST-elevation is typically seen in these three ECG leads.
What are Leads II, III, and aVF?
Seen in Neurosyphilis, these pupils accommodate to near objects but do not react to light.
What are Argyll Robertson pupils?
Typically affecting perimenopausal smokers, this benign condition involves dilation of the major ducts and typically presents with thick, green nipple discharge.
What is Mammary Duct Ectasia?
The full name of the module 2B lead.
Who is Dr. Prasanna Sankaran?
In pharmacodynamics, this term describes a drug that binds to a receptor to activate it but produces a sub-maximal response, even at 100% receptor occupancy.
What is a partial agonist?
Stasis of blood flow, endothelial injury, and hypercoagulability make up this famous triad describing factors contributing to thrombosis.
What is Virchow's Triad?
In patients with ascites, a neutrophil count greater than 250 cells/µL in the ascitic fluid is diagnostic of this condition.
What is Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP)?
This metabolic emergency is characterized by high potassium, high phosphate, and low calcium.
What is Tumour Lysis Syndrome?
Heads or Tails?
This specific ion binds to troponin C, displacing tropomyosin and allowing myosin heads to bind to actin filaments to initiate muscle contraction.
What is Calcium?
This self-limiting rash often begins with a single "Herald Patch" on the trunk before spreading in a pattern described as looking like a "fir tree".
What is Pityriasis Rosea?
This renal syndrome is clinically characterized by the triad of heavy proteinuria (>3.5g/24hr), hypoalbuminaemia, and oedema.
What is Nephrotic Syndrome?
A syndrome where a person incorrectly perceiving the sizes of body parts or objects. For example, the person may perceive their hands as being excessively large or small.
What is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (Todd Syndrome)
The person who sent the first message in the PBL Group WhatsApp Chat.
Who is Mathu?
A Radial shaft fracture and dislocation of distal radio-ulnar joint
What is a Galeazzi Fracture?
This specific clotting test assesses the intrinsic pathway of the coagulation cascade and is typically prolonged in Haemophilia A.
What is the APTT (Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time)?
This clinical sign of hypocalcaemia involves carpopedal spasm induced by inflating a blood pressure cuff above systolic pressure for a few minutes.
What is Trousseau's Sign?
This autosomal dominant condition is caused by a TP53 mutation and predisposes individuals to multiple cancers (e.g., sarcomas, leukaemias, breast) at a young age.
What is Li-Fraumeni Syndrome?
This mnemonic is commonly used to explore the characteristics of pain, standing for Site, Onset, Character, Radiation, Associations, Time, Exacerbating/Relieving, and Severity.
What is SOCRATES?