Multiple Choice Questions

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An occupational lung disease that occurs in humans, among those given below is

  • Dyspnea

  • Anthracosis

  • Atelectasis

  • Cyanosis


B.

Anthracosis

Anthracosis is an occupational hazard occurring in coal workers.

Due to the inhalation of organic and inorganic pollutants pneumoconiosis occurs. Deposition of fibrous tissue leads to bronchitis and emphysema.

Dyspnea is a distressed breathing.

Atelectasis is the inability of the lungs to expand at birth cyanosis is bluish or violet discolouration of the skin and mucous membranes due to the reduced Hb.


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Which of the following T-cells and destroyed by HIV?

  • Cytotoxic T-cells

  • Killer T-cells

  • Suppressor T-cells

  • Helper T-cells


Continuous exposer to vinyl chloride may cause cancer of the

  • Liver

  • spleen

  • vagina

  • Prostate gland


Diphtheria is caused by

  • Poison released by living bacterial cell into the host

  • Poison released from the dead bacterial cell into the host

  • Poison released by the virus into the host

  • Excessive immune response by the body of the host


Which one of the following is a matching pair of vector and the disease?

  • Culex – Filariasis

  •  Housefly – Leprosy

  • Aedes aegypti – Chickenpox

  • Sandfly – Cholera


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Meniere’s disease is associated with

  • Ear

  • Eye

  • Nose

  • Throat


Which one of the following antibodies play an important role as mediator in allergic response?

  • IgE

  • IgG

  • IgD

  • IgA


An autoimmune disease is

  • AIDS

  • haemophilia

  • Allergy

  • Myasthenia Gravis


Which one of the following options is not a sexually transmitted disease?

  • AIDS

  • Hepatitis-B

  • Pertussis

  • Syphilis


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Who received Nobel Prize in 1951 for the development of a vaccine for yellow fever?

  • Max Theiler

  • Ronald Ross

  • Max Delbruck

  • Francis Peyton Rous


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