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How many additional calories do pregnant women need during their second and third trimesters?

A 12 year old female, with a history of a rectal abscess, presents to her primary care physician with a complaint of colicky, right lower quadrant pain and diarrhea for several months.  She admits to a 10 pound weight loss during that time period.  A CT abdomen and pelvis demonstrates a severely inflamed ileum.  She undergoes a colonoscopy several weeks later that demonstrates skip lesions and deep linear ulcers throughout the ascending colon.  What is the most likely diagnosis?

Which hormone stimulates spermatogenesis?

A 37 year old male presents with a complaint of mild pain in his gluteal region.  Imaging demonstrates a schwannoma of inferior gluteal nerve.  Manual muscle testing would demonstrate weakness in which movement?

A dietician working in sports nutrition would NOT

Which rami communicantes are unmyelinated?

Glycogen is the stored form of ____________.

Following a chainsaw accident, a patient needs a nerve graft for an upper extremity laceration.  The surgeon decides the sural nerve would be a great graft.  While dissecting the area where the sural nerve is located, what other anatomical structure could be injured?

Limitations of a typical cross-sectional study include all of the following except:

A patient is suffering from benign prostatic hypertrophy and is having difficulty completely emptying his bladder.  Which structure is likely obstructed?