Anatomy 101
Located in the thigh, this is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
Rabies, West Nile, and Lyme disease are examples of "zoonotic" diseases, meaning they are transmitted to humans from these.
What are animals / insects?
Taken by new physicians, the Hippocratic Oath is named after a doctor from this ancient civilization.
What is Ancient Greece?
"CPR" stands for this emergency procedure performed when someone's heartbeat has stopped.
What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?
Touro's campus on Mare Island was historically used as the West Coast's first permanent station for this branch of the U.S. military.
What is the U.S. Navy?
Accounting for 40-50% of total body weight on average, this is the largest organ by mass in the human body.
What is muscle?
Alexander Fleming famously discovered this first true antibiotic in 1928 after accidental mold growth on a Petri dish.
What is penicillin?
Invented by René Laënnec in 1816, this iconic medical tool allowed doctors to listen to internal heart and lung sounds.
What is a stethoscope?
People with blood type O-negative are known by this term because their red blood cells can be given to patients of any blood type.
What is a universal donor?
Before settling in Vallejo in 1999, Touro University California opened its doors in 1997 in this nearby Bay Area city.
What is San Francisco?
While human infants are born with around 270 bones, an adult human body has this exact number of bones.
What is 206?
Commonly known as the "kissing disease," this condition is most frequently caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.
What is mononucleosis?
Developed by Edward Jenner in 1796, the world's first successful vaccine was created to combat this deadly disease.
What is smallpox?
This simple first-aid technique uses quick abdominal thrusts to dislodge an object choking a victim.
What is the Heimlich maneuver?
After General Vallejo’s livestock ferry capsized during a storm in the 1830s, this animal found refuge nearby, becoming the namesake of the home of Touro University California.
What is a mare / horse?
Blood returning to the heart from the body enters this specific chamber first.
What is the right atrium?
A 1975 outbreak of a mysterious juvenile arthritis in this state eventually led to the identification of a notorious tick-borne illness.
What is Connecticut?
Wilhelm Röntgen won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for discovering this revolutionary form of diagnostic testing.
What are X-rays?
When assessing a suspected stroke, the acronym "FAST" stands for Face, Arms, Speech, and this vital factor.
What is Time?
While humans grow facial hair, male wild turkeys uniquely feature a cluster of stiff, hair-like modified feathers sprouting from their chest, which is anatomically known by this facial term.
What is a beard?
Innervated by a branch of the facial nerve, this bone is the smallest in the human body.
What is the stapes?
Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the medieval pandemic known as the "Black Death" is medically known by this name.
What is the bubonic plague?
In the 1840s, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis drastically reduced hospital infections by ordering doctors to take this hygiene step before delivering babies.
What is washing their hands?
In recent years, first-aid kits and emergency responders have routinely added this over-the-counter nasal spray to immediately treat suspected fentanyl or prescription painkiller overdoses.
What is naloxone / Narcan?
In miles per hour, turkeys can fly up to this top speed.
What is 55 mph?