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Assignment:

Before human disease can be discussed, the meanings of the terms health, physical fitness, illness, and disease must be considered. Health could be defined theoretically in terms of certain measured values; for example, a person having normal body temperature, pulse and breathing rates, blood pressure, height, weight, acuity of vision, sensitivity of hearing, and other normal measurable characteristics might be termed healthy.

1. Please what is (are) the likely cause(s) of sudden sharp but brief pain (resembling pin prick) in the right lower abdomen?

2. What are the causes of foot drop, and what is the likely treatment?

3. What is the correct definition for dysaesthesia?

4. What is the difference between 'light touch' and 'fine touch' sensations passed in the posterior column, and which one of these is tested with a wisp of cotton?

5. What is apraxia of gait and what is Brun's apraxia?

6. Why is it that, when eliciting the plantar reflex, we are supposed to stop just before the ball of the great toe?

7. Is there any rationale for giving dopamine agonists to aphasic patients?

8. Have either carbamazepine or dopamine agonists a role in the treatment of aphasia? If yes, what type of aphasia?

9. Is bilateral VIth cranial nerve palsy always a false-localizing sign (i.e. does it indicate an increased intracranial pressure and not pathology of the nerves or their nuclei)?

10. Can an optic tract lesion, which is mononuclear field loss (i.e. loss of vision in one eye) also be called 'incongruous homonymous hemianopia'?