Surgical Procedures
This procedure removes lymph nodes from the back of the throat.
What is tonsillectomy?
This is the largest organ in the body.
What is skin?
The medical term is “piloerection” or “horripilation,” but what’s the common name for the little lumps that rise up on your skin when you’re cold (or spooked)
What are goosebumps?
This virus caused a global pandemic in 2020.
What is COVID 19.
This common diagnosis refers to elevated blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
This surgical procedure removes a finger-like tube from the cecum of the colon.
What is appendectomy?
The heart has this many chambers.
What are four?
Which medical term that comes from the Ancient Greek for “deep sleep” refers to a prolonged state of being unconscious and unresponsive?
What is coma?
Tuberculosis most often affects this part of the body.
What are lungs?
This diagnosis refers to elevated blood sugars as a result of insulin resistance.
What is Type 2 diabetes?
This procedure removes a small, hollow organ where bile is stored and concentrated before its released into the small intestines.
What is cholecystectomy?
This blood type is considered to be "Universal Donor"
What is O negative?
The flu shot is recommended by the WHO and CDC for yearly vaccination for nearly all people over the age of six months. What animal's eggs are often used to produce this vaccine each year?
The infectious disease that is commonly referred to as "lockjaw" is caused by this disease.
What is tetanus?
This diagnosis occurs when the heart is not able to pump blood to meet the body's need and leads to swelling in the legs and fluid around the lungs.
What is congestive heart failure?
This procedure realigns and secures broken bones with metal fasteners.
What is Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF)?
This is the smallest bone in the human body.
What is Stapes?
EKG is shorthand for what 17-letter medical device that records the electrical signals that occur in the heart?
What is electrocardiogram?
Shingles is caused by the virus that causes this well known disease?
What is chicken pox?
This condition causes the body's metabolism to slow.
What is hypothyroidism
This procedure is an open-heart procedure to restore blood flow to obstructed coronary arteries harvesting veins from the legs, arms or the mammary arteries.
What is CABG (Coronary artery bypass graft)?
This is the number of chromosomes in the human body.
What are 24?
Before it inspired the differently-spelled name of a smash hit medical TV drama, what book by a man, first name Henry, served as the go-to reference material for people trying to learn human anatomy
What is Gray's Anatomy?
This infection is caused by a parasite and affects 250 million people annually and is endemic in 80 countries.
What is malaria?
This diagnosis is made when low density lipoproteins are elevated about 100.
What is hyperlipidemia?