General Pharma
RCSI
Medical Abbreviations
Celebrity Diagnosis
Medical TV shows
100

Amoxicillin belongs to this class of antibiotics

Penicillins (beta-lactams)

100

Name of the university’s restaurant

St. Stephen's Green

100

ECG

Electrocardiogram

100

Selena Gomez suffered from this disease, which led to her kidney transplant

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

100

Seattle Grace is the hospital in this long-running ABC drama 

Grey’s Anatomy

200

Active ingredient in Tylenol / Paracetamol

Acetaminophen

200

Besides the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Midwifery, this is the third school

School of Postgraduate Studies and Research

200

BMI

Body mass index

200

Steve Jobs died in 2011 after a long battle with this disease 

Pancreatic cancer

200

British actor Hugh Laurie played this cane-carrying diagnostician 

Gregory House 

300

Time it takes for a drug’s plasma concentration to fall by half

Half-life

300

Total number of elevators inside the university building

5

300

MRI

Magnetic resonance imaging

300

Chadwick Boseman died in 2020 due to this disease 

Colon cancer

300

Freddie Highmore plays an autistic surgeon with savant syndrome in this show 

The Good Doctor

400

This drug rapidly reverses an opioid overdose

Naloxone  

400

What MB BCh BAO stands for (latin and english terms accepted)

MB: Medicinae Baccalaureus - Bachelor of Medicine 

 

BCh: Baccalaureus Chirurgiae - Bachelor of Surgery 

 

BAO: Baccalaureus in Arte Obstetricia - Bachelor of Obstetrics (or the Art of Obstetrics) 

400

PCOS/ PMOS

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome / Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome  

400

Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with this disease, which confined him to a wheelchair  

Motor neuron disease (MND) - specifically amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

400

Cristina Yang gave this surgeon the nickname ‘McDreamy’ 

Derek Shepherd 

500

Warfarin is carefully monitored by measuring this parameter

International Normalized Ratio (INR)

500

Year in which RCSI-Dublin was established

1784

500

PRN

Pro re nata

500

Lionel Messi was treated for this disease in his childhood 

Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD)

500

The Pitt takes place in a hospital in this Pennsylvania city 

Pittsburgh 

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