Medical Terminology and Anatomy
Biochemistry
Histology and Cell Components
Bacteria, Viruses, and Vaccines
Pharmacology
100
The abbreviation for hypertension.
What is HTN?
100
The amount of rings that pyrimidines have.
What is one ring?
100
A selectively permeable barrier between the cytoplasm and external milieu (environment) made of phospholipids, protein, and cholesterol with carbohydrates on the external surface.
What is the cell membrane?
100
The organism that causes the disease cholera is known as Vibrios cholera. From its name, we know that it is this shape.
What is comma shaped or shaped like a curved rod?
100
A medicine with no inherent pertinent pharmacologic activity.
What is a placebo?
200
This is the meaning of acromegaly.
What is an "enlargement of the extremities".
200
The location in the cell where glycolysis occurs.
Where is the cytoplasm?
200
A type of microscope that uses ordinary light and a series of lenses for the magnification of objects.
What is a light microscope?
200
An organism that will only grow in the absence of oxygen.
What is obligate anaerobe?
200
A route of drug administration meaning "below the dura".
What is subdural?
300
Meaning on or towards the upper most surface of the foot/back of hand.
What is dorsum?
300
The enzyme that catalyzes the reaction glucose --> glucose-6-phosphate.
What is hexokinase?
300
Act of ingestion of foreign products by a cell.
What is endocytosis?
300
This type of vaccine is a weakened form of the causative agent. It is similar to the natural infection and creates a strong, lasting immune response. This type of vaccine should be used with caution in patients with weakened immune system because of the risk of disease-related complications.
What is live-attenuated?
300
The abbreviation for drug delivered by way of the mouth.
What is PO?
400
Meaning an inflammation of the pleura, the serous membrane enveloping the lungs and lining the walls of the pleural cavity.
What is pleurisy?
400
A type of covalent bond in which a phosphate group joins adjacent carbons through ester linkages.
What is a phosphodiester bond?
400
An imperfection in the technique of slide preparation and must not be thought of as a feature of the tissue.
What is an artifact?
400
This is the class of viruses that HIV belongs to. These viruses are unique in that they possess proteins that can make DNA from RNA, allowing them to integrate their genetic information into the host's and evading the host's immune system.
What is a retrovirus?
400
The maximal response produced by a drug, regardless of dose.
What is efficacy?
500
Separates the body into left and right planes (main not be equal).
What is the sagittal plane?
500
If 45% of the DNA in a cell is composed of adenine (A), how much of the DNA is composed of guanine (G)?
What is 5%?
45% A --> 45% T --> 45+45 = 90
100 - 90 = 10
10/2 = 5 --> 5% G --> 5% C
500
The three types of muscle tissue.
What are skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, and cardiac muscle?
500
This glycoprotein, found on the envelope of influenza, helps with the viral release from infected cells.
What is neuraminidase or NA?
500
A drug used for fever.
What is an antipyretic?