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A 73-year-old woman is admitted to the hospital with significant abdominal ascites. When she sits upright on the side of her bed, the intraperitoneal fluid accumulates in her pelvis. Which of the following sites represents the lowest extent of the female abdominopelvic cavity where this fluid will collect?

A baseball pitcher delivers a 97-mph fastball to a batter and suddenly feels a sharp pain in his shoulder on release of the ball. The trainer examines the shoulder and concludes that the pitcher has a rotator cuff injury. Which muscle is most vulnerable and most likely torn by this type of injury?

Intravenous fluid administered into the median cubital vein enters the basilic vein before emptying into which of the following veins?

Cubital tunnel syndrome is the second most common compression neuropathy after carpal tunnel syndrome. Cubital tunnel syndrome occurs as which of the following nerves passes deep to a ligament and between the two heads of one of the flexor muscles of the wrist?

A young woman slips on ice, causing her to fall on her outstretched hand and fracture the surgical neck of her humerus. Several weeks later she presents with significant weakness in abduction of her arm and some weakened extension and flexion at the shoulder. Which of the following nerves is most likely injured?

A patient presents with numbness over his medial hand and atrophy of the hypothenar muscles after an injury several days ago over his medial humeral epicondyle. Which of the following nerves most likely was injured?

A pulse may be taken at several locations on the upper limb. One such location is in the anatomical snuffbox, between the extensor pollicis brevis and longus tendons; at this location one may palpate the radial artery. In taking this pulse, the artery is pressed against which of the following bones?

An 11-year-old boy jumps from a tree house 15 feet above the ground and lands on his feet before rolling forward, immediately feeling extreme pain in his right ankle. Radiographic examination reveals that he has broken the most frequently fractured tarsal bone in the body. Which of the following tarsal bones is most likely fractured?

A long-distance runner is examined by her physician after complaining of pain along the anteromedial aspect of her left leg, extending from just below the knee to just above the ankle. She has been running on a hard surface and notices that the pain is especially acute as she pushes off from the ground with the affected limb. Which of the following muscles of the leg is most likely affected by this stress injury?

The most common site of a hip fracture in an elderly person is the anatomical neck of the femur.