Question 1 - Single Best Answer
Identify the tissue:
colon stomach esophagus duodenum small intestine
Question 2 - Single Best Answer
Identify the cell at the tip of the arrow:
parietal cell oxyphil cell chief cell goblet cell paneth cell APUD cell
Question 3 - Single Best Answer
Identify the structure as indicated by the bracket:
gland villus plicae circulares crypt Peyer's patch
Question 4 - Single Best Answer
esophagus small intestine colon duodenum stomach
Question 5 - Single Best Answer
mucous cell melanocyte lymphocyte goblet cell keratinocyte
Question 6 - Single Best Answer
Identify the structure indicated by the dots:
skeletal muscle internal anal sphincter muscularis mucosa external anal sphincter taenia coli
Question 7 - Single Best Answer
goblet cell chromaffin cell paneth cell chief cell parietal cell APUD cell
Question 8 - Single Best Answer
duodenum stomach small intestine colon esophagus
Question 9 - Single Best Answer
colon lip tongue rectum scalp
Question 10 - Single Best Answer
parietal cell chief cell chromaffin cell paneth cell oxyphil cell
Question 11 - Single Best Answer
A one week old newborn infant is not able to go home because he has not had a bowel movement since birth. He also has features consistent with Down's syndrome. This is a chromosome abnormality (trisomy of chromosome 21) that includes a phenotype in which the child has slanted eyes, a space between the first and second toe, and a crease that spans the entire width of the palm of the hand. A biopsy specimen from his colon is shown. What is wrong with this picture?
There are no villi There are too many cells in the submucosa It is a normal specimen There are no ganglia
Question 12 - Single Best Answer
Which limb of the nervous system is involved in the previous question?
peripheral nervous system central nervous system ganglionic nervous system autonomic nervous system
Question 13 - Single Best Answer
Which photomicrograph identifies the normal internal anal sphincter (which would also lack ANS cells in this patient)?
Question 14 - Single Best Answer
A 50 year old female presents to the office with abdominal pain, weight loss, and diarrhea. After extensive testing, the patient is diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease). This disease can affect any part of the GI tract (mouth to anus). In the acute stage of the disease, which cell would you expect to see?
neutrophil monocyte basophill mast cell
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