MCQ | COMMON HUMAN DISEASE

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1. Addison’s disease is characterised by [CBSE PMT 1991]

             (a)   Elongation of limb bones and jaw becomes broad

             (b)   Hypertension and enlargement of thyroid

             (c)   Loss of appetite, vomitting, muscular weakness, lowering of BMR, blood pressure and bronze coloured patches of skin

             (d)   Obesity, osteoporosis and glycosuria

2. Rickets, kwashiorkar, osteomalacia, beri–beri, anaemia etc. are …. diseases                                                           [DPMT 1986]

             (a)   Communicable                    (b)   Deficiency

             (c)   Degenerative                       (d)   Genetic

3. The genes of genetic diseases are located over

             (a)   Any body chromosome (sex or somatic)

             (b)   Sex chromosomes only

             (c)   Somatic chromosomes only

             (d)   Mutational chromosomes

4. In polio patients, the legs get atrophied and paralysed due to

             (a)   Death of some muscles     (b)   Shrinkage of muscles

             (c)   Obstruction of muscles     (d)   Destruction of muscles

5. All are the diseases of lungs except

             (a)   Asthama                                (b)   Bronchitis

             (c)   Encephalitis                         (d)   Pneumonia

6. Cimex present in human clothes is a type of [CPMT 1972]

             (a)   Autotrophic animal            (b)   Host

             (c)   Parasite                                 (d)   Predent

7. A colour blind person cannot distinguish which of the following colours                                                           [BHU 1980]

             (a)   Red                                          (b)   Green

             (c)   All colours                            (d)   Red and green

8. Deficiency of adrenal cortex activity leads to

                                                                                                [CBSE PMT 1993]

             (a)   Addison’s disease               (b)   Conn’s disease

             (c)   Cushing’s disease               (d)   Simmond’s disease

9. People contract ‘Hay fever’ from one of the following pollutants in air

             (a)   Carbon dioxide                    (b)   House dust

             (c)   Paint fumes                          (d)   Pollens

10. Life saving drug ‘Desferal‘ is used for the treatment of

             (a)   Arteriosclerosis                  (b)   Hypertension

             (c)   Thalassaemia                      (d)   Down’s syndrome

11. Physiotherapy is the treatment of disease by

             (a)   Antibiotics

             (b)   Vitamins

             (c)   Indigenous drugs

             (d)   Massage, electricity and exercise

12. Hernia is a disease of

             (a)   Weakening of abdominal muscles

             (b)   Weakening in intestine

             (c)   Weakening in the thigh muscles

             (d)   Chocking of the intestine

13. Jaundice is a disease of the [KCET 1994]

             (a)   Pancreas                                (b)   Liver

             (c)   Duodenum                            (d)   Kidney

14. Which one of the following correctly matches a sexually transmitted disease with its pathogen

                                                                    [CBSE PMT 1994; MP PMT 2003]

             (a)   Uretheritis –Bacillus anthracis

             (b)   Soft sore – Bacillus brevis

             (c)   Syphillis – Treponema pallidum

             (d)   Gonorrhoea – Entamoeba histolytica

15. Which of the following is not a water born disease

                                                                                                        [AFMC 1996]

             (a)   Asthma                                  (b)   Cholera

             (c)   Amoebiasis                           (d)   None of these

16. Which of the following set contains all disease transmitting arthropods

             (a)   Ant, cockroach, body louse

             (b)   Sand fly, tse–tse fly, house fly, rat flea

             (c)   House fly, anopheles mosquito, body louse, termite

             (d)   Rat flea, cockroach, termite

17. A disease which causes the black colour of the urine

             (a)   Leukemia                              (b)   Haemophilia

             (c)   Sickle–cell anaemia            (d)   Alkaptonuria

18. Jaundice is caused by [MP PMT 1998]

             (a)   Contaminated water

             (b)   Pork

             (c)   Excessive sugar

             (d)   Excessive eating of curcuma

19. Which one of the following is a protein deficiency disease

                     [CBSE PMT 1998; KCET 1994]

             (a)   Eczema                                  (b)   Cirrhosis

             (c)   Kwashiorkor                        (d)   Nightblindness

20. Which of the following symptoms indicate red sickness

                                                                                                [CBSE PMT 1997]

             (a)   Red and ulcerated skin

             (b)   Nausea and anaemia

             (c)   Nausea and loss of hair

             (d)   Ulcerated skin, nausea and loss of hair

21. An example of Pasteur effect is…… [KCET 2004]

             (a)   Penicillium                            (b)   Pinnularia

             (c)   Saccharomyces                    (d)   Nostoc

22. Which one of the following pairs is mismatched[AIEEE 2004]

             (a)   Hyperthyroidism – exophthalmaic goitre

             (b)   Hypercortisolism – Cretinism

             (c)   Hypothyroidism – myxoedema

             (d)   Hypercortisolism – Cushing’s syndrome

23. Defect in amino acid metabolism may results in

                                                                                                        [CPMT 2004]

(a)  Albinism                                (b)   Prophyria

(c)  Wilson’s disease                 (d)   Phenylketonuria

24. The Minimata disease in Japan was caused through pollution of water by [MH-CET 2003; Orissa 2004]

             (a)   Lead                                        (b)   Mercury

(c)   Cyanide                                  (d)   Methyl isocyanate

 

 

1	c	2	b	3	a	4	d	5	c
6	c	7	d	8	a	9	d	10	c
11	d	12	a	13	b	14	c	15	a
16	b	17	d	18	a	19	c	20	d
21	c	22	c	23	d	24	b

4. (d) Contraction and deformities results from permanently damaged muscles in poliomyelitis.
5. (c) Encephalitis is a disease (inflammation) of brain (encephalon).
6. (d) ‘Hay fever’ is a seasonal form of allergic rhinitis with acute conjunctivitis, lacrimation, itching and swelling of the nasal mucosa, sudden attacks of sneezing and often asthmatic symptoms. It is regarded as an anaphylactic or allergic condition excited by a specific allergen (e.g. pollen) to which the person is sensitised.
7. (b) Sand fly is a vector for Leishmaniasis tse–tse fly transmits African sleeping sickness; house fly is a mechanical vector for dysentery, diarrhoea, etc. and rat flea for plague pathogens.
8. (d) Due to mutations, phenylalanine metabolism becomes defective. The homogentisic acid is not oxidised into acetoacetic acid hence homogentisic acid is excreted in urine which turns black upon coming in contact with air.
9. (c) Kwashiorkor is a protein deficiency disease. Its common symptoms are underweight, shunted growth and poor brain development.

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