Which one of the following is a matching pair?

1. Lubb sharp closure of AV valves at the beginning of ventricular systole

2. Dup - sudden opening of semilunar valves at the beginning of ventricular diastole

3. Pulsation of the radial artery - valves in the blood vessels

4. Initiation of the heart beat Purkinje fibres

Continued consumption of a diet rich in butter, red meat and eggs for a long period may

lead to:

1. vitamin toxicity                   

2. kidney stones

3. hypercholesterolemia

4. urine laden with kidney stones

In which one of the following pairs the two items mean one and the same thing?

1. Malleus - anvil

2. SA node - pacemaker

3. Leucocytes - lymphocytes

4. Haemophilia - blood cancer

The component of blood which prevents its coagulation in the blood vessels is

(1) haemoglobin

(2) plasma

(3) thrombin

(4) heparin.

Thickening of arteries due to cholesterol deposition is:

(1) atherosclerosis             

(2) rheumatic heart

(3) blood pressure               

(4) cardiac arrest

You are required to draw blood from a patient and to keep it in a test tube for analysis of blood corpuscles and plasma. You are also provided with the following four types of test tubes. Which of these will you not use for the purpose?

(1) Test tube containing calcium bicarbonate

(2) Chilled test tube

(3) Test tube containing heparin

(4) Test tube containing sodium oxalate

What is diapedesis?

(1)  A kind of amoeboid movement.

(2)  The process of filtration of urea in kidney.

(3)  A type of locomotion found in hydra.

(4)  Migration of WBCs into the tissue spaces from blood capillaries.

Which of the following diseases is also called Christmas disease?

(1) Sickle-cell anaemia

(2) Haemoglobinuria

(3) Myocardial infarction

(4) Haemophilia-B

The opening between the right atrium and the right ventricle is guarded by the valve named

(1) bicuspid valve                   

(2) tricuspid valve

(3) mitral valve                       

(4) semilunar valve

Ventricular diastole occurs due to a/an 

(1)  Organ system

(2)  Cell organelle

(3)  Tissue

(4)  Organ