ORGANS and SYSTEMS
The organ that produces insulin in the human body
What is the pancreas?
The medical term for high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
The vitamin that is synthesized by the human body when exposed to sunlight
What is Vitamin D?
The disease characterized by the progressive loss of memory and cognitive function
What is Alzheimer's?
The more common word for the lymphatic tissues on either side of the back of the human throat that are at their largest during the teenage years
What are tonsils?
The largest organ in the human body
What is the skin?
The medical term for a heart attack
What is Myocardial infarction?
The blood type that is considered the universal blood donor
What is O?
What is scurvy?
The three-word name for the disorder in which there's a strong urge to move one's legs. Often, there's an aching, tingling, or crawling feeling that improves somewhat with moving them.
What is Restless Leg Syndrome?
The organ responsible for filtering waste products from the blood
What are kidneys?
The medical term that comes from the Greek word for “without breathing” and is included in the name of a condition where a person experiences brief pauses in breathing while they’re asleep
What is apnea?
The hormone responsible for regulating blood sugar levels
What is insulin?
The varicella-zoster virus causes skin outbreaks in children, and in 1995 the FDA approved a vaccine to prevents its infection. What's the common name for the disease this virus causes?
What is chicken pox?
This is removed during a cholecystectomy
What is the gall bladder?
The only of the 12 systems of the human body that starts with the letter "L"
What is the lymphatic system?
The medical term for a nosebleed
What is epistaxis?
First published in 1858, this textbook was based on dissections performed on unclaimed corpses. Its name was later used for a medical tv drama.
What is Gray's Anatomy?
The vaccine for measles prevention is often called the MMR vaccine because it also prevents the mumps and this other disease
What is rubella?
Though its original iteration was "monoaural" and wooden, it's now seen with medical professionals world wide and nearly always is biaural (that is, both ears are used.)
What is a stethoscope?
A nephrologist is a doctor who specializes in the treatment and diagnosis of diseases affecting this organ
What are kidneys?
The medical term for the eardrum
What is the tympanic membrane?
Including naproxen and ibuprofen, the class of pain relievers known as NSAIDs stands for non-WHAT anti-inflammatory drugs
What is steroidal?
A mosquito-borne tropical disease that infects up to 500 million people per year, is typically transmitted by the Aedes aegypti, has the alternate name "breakbone fever,".
What is Dengue fever?
The smallest bone in the human body
What is the stapes?