Humanities
This philosophical movement of the 18th century emphasized reason, liberty, and scientific method, with figures like Voltaire and Rousseau.
What is the Enlightenment?
These large biological molecules act as catalysts to speed up chemical reactions in the body, and their names often end in "-ase."
What are enzymes?
This term describes the money left over after subtracting total costs from total revenue.
What is profit?
In patient positioning, this term means lying face down.
What is prone?
This term describes a type of malicious software that locks files and demands payment for their release.
What is ransomware?
This 20th-century literary technique, used by James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, attempts to capture the continuous flow of a character's thoughts and sensations.
What is stream of consciousness?
This process, essential for evolution, describes how organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
This type of business structure protects owners' personal assets from company debts and lawsuits
What is a limited liability company (LLC) or corporation?
This term describes the surgical creation of an opening into the trachea to bypass an airway obstruction.
What is a tracheostomy?
This popular programming language was named after a British comedy group and emphasizes readability with indentation.
What is Python?
This Italian Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the statue of David.
Who is Michelangelo?
In DNA replication, this enzyme synthesizes short RNA primers to initiate DNA synthesis by DNA polymerase.
What is primase?
This financial statement shows a company's assets, liabilities, and shareholders' equity at a specific point in time.
What is a balance sheet?
This term describes the surgical removal of a patient's appendix, often performed as an emergency procedure.
What is an appendectomy?
This company created the Windows operating system and the Xbox gaming console.
What is Microsoft?
This 19th-century philosophical movement, associated with Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, emphasizes individual existence, freedom, and subjective truth.
What is existentialism?
This metabolic pathway, active in the liver during fasting, synthesizes glucose from non-carbohydrate precursors such as lactate, glycerol, and certain amino acids.
What is gluconeogenesis?
This business strategy, named after a Japanese word for "continuous improvement," focuses on small, incremental changes to processes and products.
What is Kaizen?
This pressure, measured with a specialized urinary catheter, reflects intra-abdominal pressure and helps diagnose abdominal compartment syndrome.
What is intravesical pressure (or bladder pressure)?
This type of attack involves flooding a server with traffic to make it unavailable to legitimate users.
What is a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service)?
This ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, founded the Academy and wrote "The Republic."
Who is Plato?
These cells, found in the gastric glands, secrete intrinsic factor necessary for vitamin B12 absorption.
What are parietal cells?
This ratio, calculated as net income divided by shareholder's equity, measures how efficiently a company generates profit from its investors' money.
What is return on equity (ROE)?
This electrolyte imbalance, often caused by loop diuretics or vomiting, presents with muscle weakness, fatigue, and ECG changes including U waves.
What is hypokalemia?
This type of software, abbreviated DBMS, allows users to create, read, update, and delete data in a structured database.
What is a database management system?