CPSP FCPS I Medicine Allied MCQs

Warfarin is an oral anticoagulant that inhibits vitamin-K dependent clotting factor synthesis.

Insulin is a peptide hormone drug used to lower blood glucose and treat insulin deficiency.

Aminoglycoside is an antibiotic class associated with nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity.

Adverse drug reaction is a harmful and unintended response to a medicine used at normal doses.

ACE inhibitor is a drug class that reduces angiotensin II formation and may cause cough or hyperkalaemia.

Caseous necrosis is a friable cheese-like pattern of necrosis classically associated with tuberculosis.

Granuloma is an organised collection of activated macrophages formed in response to persistent inflammation.

Dysplasia is disordered epithelial growth with cytological atypia that may precede malignancy.

Metaplasia is a reversible replacement of one mature cell type by another better suited to stress.

Virchow triad is endothelial injury, abnormal blood flow and hypercoagulability as major contributors to thrombosis.

Anaplasia is loss of differentiation and cellular organisation in a malignant neoplasm.

Amyloidosis is extracellular deposition of misfolded protein in a beta-pleated sheet configuration.