General Knowledge Questions on Human Diseases:
Question: ‘First line of defense’ is known as
(a) Antibodies
(b) WBC
(c) Skin
(d) Liver
Question: A disease that has become unusually widespread and even global in its reach is referred to as
(a) Epidemic
(b) Pandemic
(c) Spanish flu
(d) Hyperendemic
Question: Which of the following is primarily concerned with protection against germs?
(a) Liver
(b) Lymphatic tissue
(c) Kidney
(d) Thyroid
Question: Edward Jenner discovered
(a) Vaccination against polio
(b) Immunization against polio
(c) Vaccination against small pox
(d) Immunization against small pox
Question: A disease which spreads by contact
(a) infection
(b) contagious
(c) contiguous
(d) uxoring
Question: Hypersensitivity towards any foreign material or particle is known as
(a) Hypergenital disease
(b) Congenital disease
(c) Cancer
(d) Allergy
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Question: The cells which suppress the entire immune system from its attack in the same body are known as
(a) Helper T–cells
(b) Killer B–cells
(c) Suppressor cells
(d) Suppressor T–cells
Question: Phenylketonuria is a genetic disease which refers to
(a) Phenylalanine is more in body fluid or urine
(b) Phenylalanine decrease in tissue
(c) Urine is light in color
(d) Sugar absent in the urine
Question: The cause of Typhoid fever is
(a) Giardia
(b) Clostridium
(c) Schistosoma
(d) Salmonella
Question: After vaccination the body builds up
(a) Toxins
(b) Lymph
(c) Antibodies
(d) Plasma
Question: After infection with germs, immunity is acquired is
(a) Active immunity
(b) Passive immunity
(c) Natural immunity
(d) None of these
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Question: ‘Vaccination’ was invented by
(a) Pasteur
(b) Edward Jenner
(c) Robert Koch
(d) Robert Hooke
Question: Antibodies fight against
(a) Infection
(b) Thirst
(c) Starvation
(d) Stress
Question: Tuberculosis generally affects
(a) Kidney
(b) Stomach
(c) Lungs
(d) Skin
Question: The immune system which works against self is
(a) Self-immune system
(b) Autoimmunity
(c) Specific immunity
(d) None of these
Question: An antigen is
(a) Opposite to an antibody
(b) Residue of an antibody
(c) Stimulus for antibody formation
(d) Result of antibody
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Question: The poisons produced in the body by bacteria are called
(a) Toxins
(b) Antitoxins
(c) Toxicoids
(d) Wastes
Question: The function of a vaccine is the production and storage of
(a) Antigens
(b) Immune bodies
(c) Immune reactions
(d) Antibodies
Question: Vaccines are prepared for immunity
(a) Vitamins
(b) Blood
(c) Serum
(d) Plasma
Question: Organ affected by pneumonia
(a) Liver
(b) Kidney
(c) Heart
(d) Lungs
Question: Which of these is not a mosquito-borne disease?
(a) Dengue fever
(b) Malaria
(c) Filariasis
(d) Goiter
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Question: Agents which produce allergies are known as
(a) Antigens
(b) Allergens
(c) Oncogens
(d) None of these
Question: Which disease among the following spreads when affected persons excreta gets mixed with drinking water?
(a) Cancer
(b) Cholera
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Asthma
Question: Lacking of B–cells and T–cells is known as
(a) Cytotoxins
(b) Toxigenicity
(c) Immune deficiency
(d) Autoimmunity
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Question: Mumps is a viral disease that causes inflammation of
(a) Parotid gland
(b) Sublingual gland
(c) Submaxillary gland
(d) Infra-orbital gland
Question: Uncontrolled and undifferentiated mass of cells is known as
(a) Tumour
(b) Overgrowth
(c) Cancer
(d) Hypertrophy
Question: Widal test is used for susceptibility of
(a) Malaria
(b) Typhoid
(c) Cholera
(d) Yellow fever
Question: AIDS is caused by
(a) Blood cancer
(b) HTLV–III
(c) Bacterium
(d) TMV
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Question: Antibodies are produced by
(a) Erythrocytes
(b) Thrombocytes
(c) Monocytes
(d) Lymphocytes
Question: Typhoid and Cholera are typical examples of
(a) Infectious disease
(b) Air borne disease
(c) Water borne disease
(d) None of these
Question: An antibody is
(a) Molecule that specifically inactivates an antigen
(b) WBC, which invades bacteria
(c) Secretion of mammalian RBC
(d) Component of blood
Question: Plasmodium causes
(a) Malaria
(b) Cholera
(c) Eye defect
(d) None of these
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Question: AIDS can be transmitted by
(a) Blood circulation
(b) Hand shake
(c) Courtship
(d) All of these
Question: What is the common name for trypanosomiasis?
(a) Cooking disease
(b) Sleepy sickness
(c) Sleeping sickness
(d) Parkinson’s disease
Question: Which part of the body is known as ‘Police guard‘?
(a) Tonsils
(b) Liver
(c) Skin
(d) Leucocytes
Question: Some people who have suffered from a disease may not be affected again during their life time; such immunity is called
(a) Natural immunity
(b) Acquired immunity
(c) Active immunity
(d) Passive immunity
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Question: ‘Blood cancer’ is also known as
(a) Leucopenia
(b) Leucoderma
(c) Leucocytosis
(d) Leukemia
Question: Alexender Flemming in 1929 discovered
(a) Penicillin
(b) Streptomycin
(c) Tetracyclin
(d) Chloromycitin
Question: How does the AIDS virus enter into people?
(a) Through food
(b) Through kissing
(c) Through water
(d) Through blood
Question: Diabetes mellitus is due to lack of
(a) Insulin in circulating blood
(b) Starch in food
(c) Trypsin in pancreatic juice
(d) ADH reaching the kidney
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Question: Which one of the following pairs of disease can spread through blood transfusion?
(a) Cholera and hepatitis
(b) Hepatitis and AIDS
(c) Diabetes mellitus and malaria
(d) Hay fever and AIDS
Question: The term ‘active immunity’ means
(a) Resistance developed after disease
(b) Resistance developed before disease
(c) Resistance rate of heart beat
(d) Increasing quantity of blood
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Question: ‘Dengue fever’ is caused by
(a) Bacteria
(b) Plasmodium
(c) Virus
(d) Entamoeba histolytica
Question: Hypersensitive towards any foreign material or particle is known as
(a) Hyper-genital disease
(b) Congenital disease
(c) Cancer
(d) Allergy
Question: DPT vaccine given for
(a) Tetanus, polio, plague
(b) Diphtheria, whooping cough and leprosy
(c) Diphtheria, pneumonia, tetanus
(d) Diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus
Question: Malaria is caused by
(a) Ascaris
(b) Foul air
(c) Plasmodium
(d) Mosquito
Question: Which of the disease is not transmitted by house flies?
(a) Typhoid
(b) Yellow fever
(c) Cholera
(d) Dysentery
Question: Which of the following diseases is endemic?
(a) Common cold
(b) Amoebiasis
(c) Hepatitis
(d) Influenza
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Question: The term”antibiotic” was coined by
(a) Alexander Fleming
(b) Edward Jenner
(c) Louis pasteur
(d) Selman Waksman
Question: Which is a water–borne disease?
(a) Small pox
(b) Malaria
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Cholera
Question: ‘Tuberculosis’ is caused by
(a) Virus
(b) Bacterium
(c) Malnutrition
(d) Protozoan
Question: Immune deficiency syndrome in humans could develop as a consequence of
(a) AlDS virus infection
(b) Defective thymus
(c) Defective liver
(d) Weak immune system
Question: ‘Plague’ is transmitted by
(a) House fly
(b) Tse–tse fly
(c) Rat flea
(d) Mosquito
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Question: Ricket is a disease of
(a) Bones
(b) Liver
(c) Muscles
(d) Blood
Question: Night blindness is caused due to
(a) excess secretion of pineal gland
(b) Vitamin A deficiency
(c) inheritance by X-chromosome
(d) less drinking water
Question: Viral and bacterial diseases can be controlled by
(a) Change in the height of crops
(b) Plucking the weeds
(c) Distruction of vectors
(d) Seeds treated with water
Question: The most dreadful disease transmitted through blood transfusion is
(a) Malaria
(b) Syphilis
(c) Viral hepatitis
(d) AIDS
Question: Period from the entrance of pathogens into the body and their multiplication showing initial symptoms of disease is known by
(a) Incubation period
(b) Onset period
(c) Climex period
(d) Infection period
Question: Hodgkin’s disease in which lymph nodes produce excessive lymphocytes is
(a) Carcinoma
(b) Sarcoma
(c) Lymphoma
(d) Leukemia
