HOSA
Career
Anatomy and Physiology
Medical Terminology
MCAT
100

What does HOSA stand for?

Future Health Professional or Health Occupations Students of America?

100

This health career focuses on cleaning teeth, taking X-rays, and educating patients about oral hygiene.

Dental Hygienist

100

The watery fluid that makes up a majority of blood?

Plasma

100

The prefix "brady-" means what?

Slow

100

This functional group contains a carbon double-bonded to oxygen and single-bonded to a hydroxyl group.

Carboxylic Acid

200

The HOSA colors are Navy, Maroon, and what other color?

Medical White

200

This type of nurse has advanced education (often a master’s degree) and can diagnose and treat patients.

Nurse Practitioner

200

The white portion of your eye?

Sclera

200

The suffix "-ectomy" refers to what type of procedure?

Surgical Removal

200

This phenomenon occurs when individuals are less likely to help in the presence of others.

Bystander Effect

300

What state was HOSA founded in?

Texas

300

This medical professional creates treatment plans using exercises and therapies to help patients recover from injuries



Physical Therapist

300

The four bases found in RNA?

Uracil, guanine, adenine, and cytosine.

300

The root word "hepat-" refers to which organ?

Liver

300

In Pavlov’s study with dogs, the animals learned to salivate at the sound of a bell that predicted food. This type of learning is demonstrated.

Classical Conditioning

400

What year was HOSA founded in?

1976

400

These professionals use imaging technologies such as X-rays, MRI, or CT scans to help diagnose diseases.

Radiologic Technologists

400

The location of the sebaceous glands

Bulb of a hair follicle

400

The term “pneumothorax” can be broken down into parts that mean what?

Air in the chest cavity

400

This type of energy is stored in a stretched or compressed spring.

Elastic Potential Energy

500

What are the 4 core values of HOSA?

Learning, Leadership, Service, and Innovation

500

This highly specialized career involves using artificial heart-lung machines to manage cardiopulmonary function during open-heart surgery.

Perfusionist

500

The three types of respiration

Ventilation, internal respiration and external respiration

500

The word "osteomyelitis" can be broken down into parts that mean what?

Inflammation of bone and bone marrow

500

This part of the nephron is responsible for filtration of blood.

Glomerulus

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