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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Most common disease caused by demyelination of the CNS	Multiple sclerosis	85%
Bacterial disease spread through water, leads to watery diarrhoea dehydration and potentially death if untreated.	Cholera	62%
Genetic disease that leads to an uncontrolled mucus secretionclogging up the lungs and other places.	Cystic fibrosis	54%
Caused by a branch of clostridium bacteria, leads to painful long lasting muscle spasm. It does this by preventing release of inhibitory neurotransmiters GABA and glycine at the start of motor neurones.	Tetanus	54%
Compresion of the flexor retinaculum, categorised by thenar wastage and tingling in the first 3 and a half digits.	Carpal tunnel syndrome	46%
A collection of blood in the pleural space.	Haemothorax	46%
Highly infectious disease, starts similar to a cold, but leads to on going heavy coughing with a very distinctive sound.	Whooping cough	38%
Neuropathy affecting C5/C6 nerves, resulting in waiter's tip deformity.	Erb's palsy	31%
Where your stomach protrudes through your diaphragm in to the chest.	Hiatus hernia	31%
Genetic disease of the connective tissue of the body. People who have it tend to be very tall (an example being Abraham Lincoln) and have a very dilated aorta.	Marfan syndrome	31%
Neuropathy affecting C8-T1, leads to a claw hand, the same deformity that Kaiser Wilhelm had.	Klumpke's palsy	23%
When a child's body turns into an adults too soon.	Precocious puberty	23%
Back flow of blood through valves in the heart.	Stenosis	23%
Tendon of a finger becomes inflamed/swollen leading it to catch on the tendon sheath during extension.	Trigger finger	23%
Serious condition in which the inner layer of the aorta splits, leading to blood to surge into the space between the inner and middle layers leading to them seperating.	Aortic dissection	15%
Caused by a thickening of palmar connective tissue into nodules, leading to reduced ability to extend fingers, typically effects ring finger first.	Dupuytren's contracture	15%
A tumour/fluid filled swelling that normally arises on top of a joint or tendon.	Ganglion cyst	15%
A connection between the pulmonary artery and the aorta	Patent ductus arteriosus	15%
Caused by mutations that lead to defects in neuronal proteins. Resulting in distal muscle wastage and lose of sensation.	Charcot marie tooth disease	8%
Rare disoder in which your immune system starts to attack your PNS.	Guillain barré syndrome	8%
Inflamation of extensors of the forearm, a common injury of tennis players. (medical term)	Lateral epichondylitis	8%
A whole between the left and right atrium that did not fuse during birth.	Patent foramen ovale	8%
Name given to the mutation that Queen Elizabeth I supposedly had, where one has an additional digit on their hand.	Polydactyly	8%
May be cause by a pancoast tumour, is a disruption of nervous stimulation of the face, normally on one side, leads to drooping eye lid, and decreased pupil size to name a few symptoms.	Horner syndrome	0%
High cholesterol levels.	Hypercholestrolaemia	0%
Mannose residues not phosphorylated leading to a build up of molecules in the intracellular matrix that need to be broken down by lysosomes.	Mucolipodosis II	0%