Introduction to Health and Diseases

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What are the 7 types of mental disorders?

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What are mental disorders? Give examples.

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Infantile amaurotic idiocy (Tay-Sachs disease) is

1. The result of severe protein deficiency in diet and damages the muscle development in growing children

2. An inherited disorder in which the spinal cord and brain are severely damaged within a few months of birth leading to paralysis and mental retardation, and finally the infant's death in 3 or 4 years

3. A genetic abnormality which appears at the age of 25-30 years and damages the bones

4. A chromosomal disorder in young children

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What may be the symptoms of a disease if brain is infected ?

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What is the most common psychiatric disorder?

Q. Which of the following organisms causes the disease Typhus?

1. Human lice
2. Rickettsia prowazekii
3. Salmonella Typhi
4. Fleas

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Widal test is carried out to test

1. Malaria

2. Diabetes mellitus

3. HIV/AIDS

4. Typhoid fever

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Which one of the following is a physiological barrier to the entry of microorganisms?

1. Tears

2. Monocytes

3. Skin

4. Epithelium of urogenital tract

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The primary lymphoid organ is

1. Tonsils

2. Payer’s patches

3. Lymph nodes

4. Thymus

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Which of the following is a characteristic of neurosis?

1. Fits of convulsions

2. Prolonged emotional reaction to a stress

3. Headache

4. Madness

Q. Black death is the name given to _____________ .

1. Plague
2. Malaria
3. Cholera
4. Typhoid

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Passive immunity is

1. Inherited from parents.

2. Acquired through first exposure to the disease.

3. Achieved directly through ready made antibodies.

4. Achieved through vaccination.

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Typhoid is caused by

1. Salmonella typhi

2. Mycobacterium

3. Plasmodium vivax

4. Treponema pallidum