1. What links your spleen, your gall bladder, your appendix and one of your kidneys (amongst others)?

2. To the nearest ten percent, what percentage of the human body is made up of water?

3. Polymastia or polythelia are terms used to denote the presence of excess what on the human body?

4. At what stage of pregnancy does a baby's heartbeat start? week 6 / week 16 / week 26 / week 36?

5.In general, it is claimed that only water and some salts are absorbed

in the large gut, whereas the small gut is practically free of bacteria

(which are present only in the large gut). In a patient on broad-spectrum

antibiotics, bleeding can occur as a result of vitamin K deficiency. If the

flora synthesizing vitamin K is disturbed, how can vitamin deficiency

occur when the large gut is not supposed to absorb? How can this be due

to a change in bacterial flora?

6.Why does colonic cancer more commonly occur on the left rather than

the right side of the colon?

7.How much more likely are patients with reflux oesophagitis to develop

cancer of the oesophagus than normal people and does aggressive

treatment with H2-blockers or proton pump inhibitors nullify this

increased risk?

8.In Crohn's disease localized to the ileum there are long-term side effects

and pros and cons of drug therapy. Is ileal resection a better option

(if Crohn's disease is localized to the ileum) than long-term medicine

therapy which risks complicating lymphoma of the ileum?

9.In children with abdominal pain and fever, does a white cell count help

establish a diagnosis of appendicitis?

10.I have always been taught that ulcerative colitis only affects the

large bowel with some associated proctitis. I read in your chapter on

gastrointestinal disease that it can cause mouth ulcers and am now

confused