Human Anatomy
This organ is the largest of the human body.
What is the skin?
This was the ancient Egyptian practice of drying and preserving dead bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
The type of drugs that treat bacterial infections.
What are antibiotics?
The amount paid to an insurance agency for a health insurance policy.
What is a premium?
This U.S. organization collects nearly 4.5 million blood donations every year.
What is the American Red Cross?
A normal human _____, has four chambers.
What is the heart?
The Black Plague of medieval Europe was caused by a bacteria transferred to humans from rodents bitten by these parasites.
What are fleas?
The class of drugs that derive from, or mimic, natural substances found in the opium poppy plant.
What are opioids?
The amount that must be paid by the patient before the insurance agency will begin to make payments.
What is a deductible?
This university, established 1876, is known as the first research university in the U.S.
What is Johns Hopkins University?
An adult human has 206 of these in their body.
What are bones?
This Greek physician and philosopher is considered the "father of modern medicine."
Who is Hippocrates?
This type of drug is applied to the skin or mucous membrane.
What are topicals?
Signed into law in March 2010, this major reform overhauled much of the US healthcare system.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This reference book, first published in 1858, shares its name with a popular American TV medical drama.
What is Gray's Anatomy?
The stapedius muscle, smallest in the human body, is located here.
What is the ear?
The Greek God of medicine.
Who is Asclepius?
All pharmaceuticals are labeled with specific information mandated by this government agency.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
The government health insurance program available to people with very limited income and resources.
What is Medicaid?
This 1970 law requires child-resistant packaging for hazardous household products, including prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
What is the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA)?
A biological feature that an organism inherited from an ancestor but has lost most or all of its original function through evolution, such as wisdom teeth or the appendix.
What is a vestigial structure?
This English physician is credited as the first to describe that blood continually circulates throughout the human body.
Who is William Harvey?
The generic name for Xanax.
What is Alprazolam?
A type of health insurance plan that limits coverage to doctors and hospitals that are part of its network.
What is a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)?
The year in which British physicians Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill began their landmark study identifying cigarette smoke as a cause of lung cancer.
What is 1950?