Trailblazers
One of the first medical schools for black people
What is Howard University College of Medicine?
The number of bones in the human body
206 bones
The most frequently diagnosed cancer in men
What is prostate cancer?
CPR stands for
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
CRNA stands for
What is Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
The first African-American to obtain a medical degree in 1837
Who is James McCune Smith?
The largest organ system in the body
What is the integumentary system?
Focus of oncology
What is cancer?
The medical test that measures the electrical activity of the heart
What is the EKG (electrocardiogram)?
DVT means
What is deep vein thrombosis?
"father of blood banking" who pioneered methods to help save blood after donations
Charles R. Drew is known as the "father" of what?
Large veins that carries deoxygenated blood from the body to the heart
What is the superior and inferior vena cava?
People with leukemia have too many of this
What are leukocytes (white blood cells)
What is BID?
The most common plastic surgery in the USA?
What is liposuction?
The first Asian-American woman to become a physician
Who is Margaret Chung?
The biological mechanisms that help maintain homeostasis in the body by controlling internal conditions
What are positive and negative feedback Loops?
The term for low blood sugar
What is hypoglycemia?
AAO stands for
What is awake, alert, and oriented?
the medical abbrevation for intake and output
What is I&O
the Cuban epidemiologist that pioneered research on yellow fever
Who is Carlos Juan Finlay?
The first part of the small intestine
What is the duodenum?
The enlargement of the liver
What is hepatomegaly?
When someone has difficulty swallowing?
What is dysphagia?
The other name for a cerebrovascular accident
What is a stroke?