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A 53 year old woman presents with complaints of morning stiffess in the neck and back. She has pelvic and shoulder pain along with fatigue. Her laboratory studies reveal elevated ESR, normal rheumatoid factor, normal creatinine and normochromic, normocytic anemia. Physical exam reveals a low-grade fever, bilateral pain and stiffness of the pectoral and pelvic muscles. Based on this information, the most appropriate diagnosis is:

A patient presents to your clinic 2 days after a collision during a softball game in which he fell on an outstretched right hand. He reports he could not continue playing and that his pain has not improved. He has some general edema around the wrist, poor grip strength secondary to pain, point tenderness over the volar prominence at the distal wrist crease. There is no obvious deformity and is neurovascularly intact. What is the most likely diagnosis for this patient?

The term suprapatellar means:  

A 65 year old female patient has her first DEXA scan to evaluate bone mass. Her T-Score comes back as -1.75. Given this T-Score, what is the diagnosis? 

The singular of paralyses is:  

Sepsis is caused by:  

A patient presents with complaints of a sharp pain in the posterior knee, swelling of the calf and on physical exam you find the below finding (see photo) on the ankle. There was no known injury to the area. What is the most appropriate diagnosis for this patient?

Which of the following is a suffix that does not mean “condition of”?  

Chondrosarcoma is:  

Dyskinesia is: