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021 A 30-year-old man fractures the midshaft of his humerus in a motorcycle accident in Butwal. He is unable to extend his wrist. Which nerve is most likely injured?Limbs · NMC Licensing Examination pattern Anatomy 022 A carpet weaver from Kathmandu has tingling of the thumb, index and middle fingers at night and wasting of the thenar eminence. Weakness of which muscle would be expected?Limbs · NMC Licensing Examination pattern Anatomy 023 When a patient stands on the right leg, the left side of the pelvis drops. Which nerve is most likely damaged?Limbs · MBBS university exams pattern Anatomy 024 After a tight plaster cast is applied below the knee, a patient develops foot drop and numbness over the dorsum of the foot. Which nerve has been compressed at the neck of the fibula?Limbs · NMC Licensing Examination pattern Anatomy 025 The portal vein is formed behind the neck of the pancreas by the union of which veins?Abdomen · MBBS university exams pattern Anatomy 026 The appendicular artery is usually a branch of which artery?Abdomen · MBBS university exams pattern Anatomy 027 At operation for a groin hernia in a farmer from Kaski, the neck of the hernial sac is found lateral to the inferior epigastric vessels. What type of hernia is this?Abdomen · NMC Licensing Examination pattern Anatomy 028 A motorcyclist is struck on the side of the head, recovers consciousness for an hour and then deteriorates rapidly. CT shows a biconvex haematoma beneath the pterion. Which vessel is most likely torn?Head, neck and neuroanatomy · NMC Licensing Examination pattern Anatomy 029 A pituitary tumour compressing the central part of the optic chiasma typically produces which visual field defect?Head, neck and neuroanatomy · MBBS university exams pattern Anatomy 030 After thyroidectomy a schoolteacher from Dharan notices that she can no longer sing high notes, though her speaking voice is otherwise normal. The nerve injured runs with which artery?Head, neck and neuroanatomy · MECEE-PG entrance pattern Anatomy 031 Which enzyme catalyses the rate-limiting, committed step of glycolysis?Glycolysis · MBBS university exams pattern Biochemistry 032 Which compound is the most potent allosteric activator of phosphofructokinase-1 in the liver?Glycolysis · MECEE-PG entrance pattern Biochemistry 033 A blood sample for glucose estimation is collected in a tube containing sodium fluoride. Fluoride prevents glycolysis in the sample by inhibiting which enzyme?Glycolysis · NMC Licensing Examination pattern Biochemistry 034 Which statement about glucokinase, as compared with hexokinase, is correct?Glycolysis · MBBS university exams pattern Biochemistry 035 A man with chronic alcohol dependence is brought to a hospital in Kathmandu with confusion, ataxia and ophthalmoplegia. The activity of which enzyme is most directly impaired by his vitamin deficiency?TCA cycle and oxidative phosphorylation · NMC Licensing Examination pattern Biochemistry 036 Which enzyme of the citric acid cycle generates a high-energy phosphate bond by substrate-level phosphorylation?TCA cycle and oxidative phosphorylation · MBBS university exams pattern Biochemistry 037 Cyanide poisoning blocks cellular respiration by inhibiting which component of the electron transport chain?TCA cycle and oxidative phosphorylation · NMC Licensing Examination pattern Biochemistry 038 Which enzyme of the citric acid cycle is also a component of the electron transport chain?TCA cycle and oxidative phosphorylation · MBBS university exams pattern Biochemistry 039 Which of the following enzymes is used in gluconeogenesis but not in glycolysis?Gluconeogenesis and glycogen · MBBS university exams pattern Biochemistry 040 Muscle glycogen cannot contribute directly to blood glucose because muscle lacks which enzyme?Gluconeogenesis and glycogen · MBBS university exams pattern Biochemistry