A 46-year-old male has lost nearly 44 pounds in 4 weeks.  He…

A 46-year-old male has lost nearly 44 pounds in 4 weeks.  He complains of gastric pain with episodes of vomiting dark red blood.  A barium radiograph is ordered and a large mass is detected in the corpus region of the stomach.  A follow-up biopsy confirms your worst suspicions of a possible gastric malignancy with a carcinoma being diagnosed.  Exploratory surgery further confirms the presence of a positive Trossier’s sign.  Which lymph nodes are most likely visibly enlarged and palpable?  

A 36-year-old male was brought to the ER with a bullet wound…

A 36-year-old male was brought to the ER with a bullet wound to the abdomen.  The bullet penetrated the anterior abdominal wall in the epigastric region.  If the bullet passed through the midline, directly posterior, which of the following structures was most likely to have been struck first by the bullet?

A 50-year-old male is undergoing an emergency appendectomy. …

A 50-year-old male is undergoing an emergency appendectomy.  After the procedure has been performed successfully, he undergoes an exploratory laparoscopy.  Which of the following anatomic features are most useful to distinguish the jejunum from the ileum?  

An unconscious 48-year-old male soccer coach is admitted to…

An unconscious 48-year-old male soccer coach is admitted to the hospital. A CT scan reveals a tumor in his brain. When he regains consciousness, he is unable to abduct the right eye and complains of horizontal diplopia. Which of the following cranial nerves was most likley affected by the tumor to result in these symptoms? 

A 59-year-old male complains of acute pain on his mandible. …

A 59-year-old male complains of acute pain on his mandible.  He has an acute inflammation of the temporomandibular joint due to arthritis.  Which of the following muscles inserts on the mandibular condyle and functions in depressing and protruding the mandible?