General Anatomy & Physiology
The largest organ in the human body.
What is Skin?
Medical term for high blood pressure
What is Hypertension?
First antibiotic ever discovered.
What is Penicillin?
What does MRI stand for?
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Time for food to pass through the entire digestive system
About 24-72 hours
The number of bones in the adult human body.
What is 206?
The leading cause of death worldwide
ischemic heart disease, cardiovascular disease, heart disease
Who is Edward Jenner?
Instrument to measure blood pressure.
Sphygmomanometer
The strongest muscle in the human body by weight
Masseter
The name of the protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells.
What is Hemoglobin?
Disease caused by the lack of vitamin C.
What is Scurvy?
Year the first human heart transplant performed.
1967
Medical term for listening to internal body sounds using a stethoscope
Auscultation
Part of the human body that has no blood supply
Cornea
What is insulin, glucagon, gastrin, amylin?
Name of the condition where the thyroid produces too much hormone.
What is Hyperthyroidism?
Surgeon that pioneered antiseptic surgery.
Joseph Lister
Device that is used to deliver electrical shocks to the heart during cardiac arrest.
Defibrillator
The smallest bone in the human body?
What is Stapes
This disease is also known as Hansen's disease.
What is Leprosy?
Name of Ancient Greek physician who's work greatly influenced medicine in the Middle Ages?
Galen
Term for the visual examination of the interior of the body using a camera
Endoscopy