Biology
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
What is Mitochondria
What is the medical term for high blood pressure?
What is Hypertension?
This organ stores bile produced by the liver.
What is the gallbladder?
What is the medical name for the common flu?
What is Influenza
What is the ability of neurons in the brain to compensate for injury or disease?
What is Neuroplasticity
What are the nitrogenous bases of DNA?
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine
What is the suffix meaning “surgical removal”/ “cutting out”
What is -ectomy
These tiny hair-like structures on respiratory cells help move mucus and trapped particles out of the airways.
What are cilia?
What disease is caused by a lack of or misuse of insulin in the body?
What is Diabetes
Most of the energy needed to move, perform activities, and live is consumed in the form of _____, which are converted primarily to glucose for immediate use by the body's cells.
What are Carbohydrates
A lymphocyte not formed in the thymus gland responsible for producing antibodies
what is a B cell
What is the word root meaning “liver”?
What is hepat/o
This physiological process in the nephron allows water to be reabsorbed from filtrate back into the blood.
What is osmosis?
What is the medical term for a heart attack?
What is Myocardial Infarction
What is a pulse taken on the inner side of the upper arm known as?
What is Brachial Pulse?
What do angiosperms have that gymnosperms don’t?
what are fruits and flowers
What is the suffix meaning “abnormal hardening”?
What is -sclerosis
During a stress response, this hormone released by the adrenal cortex helps increase blood glucose levels over a longer period.
What is cortisol?
What neurodegenerative disease causes tremors, stiffness, and difficulty moving?
What is Parkinson’s disease
What does the medical abbreviation qHS mean
What is Every bedtime
What hormone stimulates release of digestive enzymes from the pancreas and bile from gallbladder? (High levels of this inhibit peristalsis)
What is CCK (Cholecystokinin)
What is the medical term for the abnormal softening of bone in adults, often caused by vitamin D deficiency (aka “adult rickets”)
What is Osteomalacia
During sarcomere contraction, this structure shortens as actin filaments slide past myosin filaments.
What is the sarcomere?
What genetic disorder causes thick, sticky mucus that clogs the lungs and pancreas?
What is Cystic Fibrosis
What is trypanophobia
What is the fear of needles