| ONCOLOGY | GI AND HEPATOLOGY | INFECTIOUS DISEASE | BIOSTATS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY | TOXICOLOGY |
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Active surveillance (do not accept observation or watchful waiting)
Term for cancer management approach deferring curative-intent therapy in lieu of regular monitoring of disease progression
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Gastroparesis
Syndrome of delayed gastric emptying in the absence of a mechanical obstruction
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Herd immunity (accept herd effect; community immunity; community effect)
Term for immunity resulting from minimizing the number of individuals in a population susceptible to an infection
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Accuracy
Statistical term describing the closeness of measurements to a specific value
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Factor Xa inhibitors
Andexanet alpha is a reversal agent for this class of direct oral anticoagulants
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Body surface area
Clinical parameter calculated using the Mosteller formula
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Lymphoma
Most common intestinal malignancy associated with celiac disease
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Decrease immunosuppression
Primary treatment for post-kidney transplant BK polyomavirus-associated nephropathy
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Narrowing (accept decreasing)
Usual effect of increasing sample size on width of the confidence interval
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Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (accept cannabis hyperemesis syndrome)
Clinical condition of cyclic episodes of nausea and vomiting associated with marijuana use
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Orphan Annie eyes (accept Orphan Annie cells; Orphan Annie nuclei)
Common descriptive term for tumor cells with empty nuclei first described in papillary thyroid cancer
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Globin (do not accept hemoglobin or heme)
Specific target of antibodies in stool fecal immunohistochemistry testing
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Ghon complex
Eponym for area of parenchymal lung consolidation with involvement of adjacent lymph nodes in primary tuberculosis infection
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15%
A negative likelihood ratio of 0.5 decreases the probability of disease by approximately this amount
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Lead
Cause of saturnine gout
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Checkpoint inhibitors (accept immune checkpoint inhibitors)
Class of drugs that consist of monoclonal antibodies targeting cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CLTA-4)
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Fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols (FODMAP)
Components of the FODMAP diet
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Enteric fever (accept typhoid fever; typhoid and paratyphoid infection)
Likely diagnosis for patient with relative bradycardia, pulse-temperature dissociation, and abdominal pain
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Non-parametric statistics
Statistical methods used when data is not normally distributed
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Alcohol dehydrogenase
Enzyme competitively inhibited by fomepizole
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Field cancerization (accept field change, field carcinogenesis, cancer field effect, or premalignant field defect)
Phenomenon in which large areas of cells develop carcinogenic potential through repeated exposures
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Caroli disease (communicating cavernous ectasia or congenital cystic dilation of the intrahepatic biliary tree) (do not accept Caroli syndrome)
Eponym for inherited isolated cystic dilation of the intrahepatic bile ducts
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Weil disease
Eponymous name for severe leptospirosis infection complicated by fever, jaundice, kidney failure, and hemorrhage
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Berkson bias (accept Berkson paradox)
Eponymous term for a form of selection bias that causes hospital cases and controls to be systematically different from one another
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Acetaminophen (accept APAP or paracetamol)
N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone imine is a toxic meta
bolite associated with overdose of this agent |
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