Medical Instruments
This instrument is used to listen to heart and lung sounds.
What is a stethoscope?
This metabolic disease is characterized by high blood sugar levels
What is diabetes?
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This long-running show features doctors at a hospital located in Seattle.
What is Grey’s Anatomy?
This common over-the-counter drug reduces pain and fever but is not anti-inflammatory
What is acetaminophen?
This device measures blood pressure using an inflatable cuff.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
This autoimmune disease results in demyelination in the central nervous system
What is multiple sclerosis?
These tiny air sacs in the lungs are responsible for gas exchange.
What are alveoli?
This medical show is praised for its accuracy in depicting the ER experience.
What is The Pitt?
This class of drugs lowers blood pressure by blocking β-adrenergic receptors.
What are beta blockers?
This tool is used to visualize the vocal cords and airway during intubation
What is a laryngoscope?
This neurodegenerative disease is marked by β-amyloid plaques and tau tangles
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
This part of the nephron is primarily responsible for reabsorbing water under hormonal control.
What is the collecting duct?
This medical drama is set in the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital
What is House, M.D.?
This anticoagulant works by enhancing antithrombin III activity.
What is heparin?
This instrument uses high-frequency sound waves to create images of internal organs
What is an ultrasound probe?
This genetic disorder is caused by a mutation in the CFTR gene, leading to thick mucus secretions.
What is cystic fibrosis?
This brain structure plays a key role in memory formation and is affected early in Alzheimer’s disease.
What is the hippocampus?
This ER-focused drama starred George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross.
What is ER?
This opioid antagonist is used to reverse overdoses.
What is naloxone?
This specialized needle is used to remove cerebrospinal fluid during a diagnostic procedure.
What is a spinal needle (lumbar puncture needle)?
This condition results from a deficiency of hexosaminidase A, leading to lipid accumulation in neurons.
What is Tay-Sachs disease?
This equation describes the relationship between pressure, flow, and resistance in blood vessels
What is Poiseuille’s law?
This early 2000s show follows the lives of surgical interns like J.D.
What is Scrubs?
This antibiotic inhibits bacterial protein synthesis by binding to the 50S ribosomal subunit.
What is erythromycin? (or another macrolide)