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Which of the following are the bone-eating (reabsorbing) cells?

Moving the sole of the foot outward at the ankle is known as ____.

Which would form by way of intramembranous ossification?

The APC gene:

?A 30-year-old female comes to your ObGyn clinic to establish prenatal care. She has never seen a physician before so you start with blood work and a Pap smear (normal smear is on the left “A”) which shows on the right (“F”): 

You are treating a patient with adjuvant chemotherapy for a curable cancer. The patient comes for cycle 3 out of 6 and is fatigued. His treatment schedule is every 21 days. He wishes to take a break from chemotherapy but doesn’t want to compromise his chance of curing the malignancy. What advice should you give him?

Characteristics of HSIL (high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions) include:

An 18-year-old boy gets hit during a football game and comes to your ortho clinic complaining of knee pain. Upon imaging, you note a small nodule on the surface of the femur. The biopsy shows a benign cartilage proliferation. Your diagnosis is:

Which of these lesions is benign

Why are x-rays (photons) used for therapeutic radiation?