Pre-Med Basics
Oxygen is transported in the blood primarily by this molecule.
What is Hemoglobin?
The ER acronym “CPR” stands for this.
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
This phase of the cell cycle accounts for most of the cell’s life.
What is interphase?
This long-running medical drama is set at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
What is Grey’s Anatomy?
Phi Delta Epsilon was founded to support pre-medical students during a time when this group faced barriers to medical education.
Who are Jewish students?
If a cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, this will happen to its volume.
What is it will shrink (lose water)?
Patients are kept NPO before surgery to reduce the risk of this complication.
What is aspiration?
Enzymes speed up chemical reactions by lowering this.
What is activation energy?
The TV show “The Good Doctor” features a surgeon with this condition.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
The Lewis Katz School of Medicine places strong emphasis on this population type, aligning with Temple’s urban mission.
What are underserved populations?
During an action potential, this ion’s rapid influx is responsible for depolarization.
What is sodium (Na⁺)?
Providing care that focuses on comfort rather than cure is known as this approach.
What is palliative care?
Autosomal recessive disorders require this genetic condition for expression.
What is homozygosity for the recessive allele?
In Dallas Buyers Club, patients seek unapproved drugs due to lack of access to treatment for this disease.
What is HIV/AIDS?
Temple University was initially founded in 1884 for this purpose.
What is night school?
Loss of this brain region most directly impairs the ability to form new declarative memories.
What is the hippocampus?
A fever, elevated white blood cell count, and infection may indicate this life-threatening condition.
What is sepsis?
pH is defined as the negative logarithm of this quantity.
What is hydrogen ion concentration?
This singer’s experience with Ramsay Hunt syndrome raised awareness of facial nerve paralysis.
Who is Justin Bieber?
This person founded Temple University.
Who is Russel Conwell?
This nephron segment is impermeable to water and is primarily responsible for generating the medullary osmotic gradient.
What is the ascending loop of Henle?
This lung disease is characterized by chronic airflow limitation and is commonly caused by smoking.
What is COPD?
This functional group acts as a hydrogen bond donor in biological molecules.
What is a hydroxyl (–OH) or amine (–NH) group?
This singer’s stiff-person syndrome is best classified as this type of disorder, explaining muscle rigidity and spasms.
Who is Céline Dion?
This is the official flower of Phi Delta Epsilon.
What is the Scarlet Red Carnation?