Anatomy and physiology
This chamber pumps oxygenated blood to the systemic circulation.
What is the left ventricle?
This 1996 US law protects the privacy of patient health information.
What is HIPAA?
A patient suddenly has one side of the face drooping, slurred speech, and weakness in one arm.
What is a stroke?
Invented by Laennec in 1816, this instrument is used to listen to heart and lung sounds.
What is the stethoscope?
The main MD application service.
What is AMCAS?
This is the functional unit of the kidney.
This process requires that a patient understand risks, benefits, and alternatives before agreeing to treatment.
What is informed consent?
A 50-year-old has a long-term cough, wheezing, and shortness of breath. He smokes and vapes. Spirometry shows airflow obstruction that does not fully reverse.
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?
Clinicians use this handheld instrument to view the tympanic membrane.
What is the otoscope?
This is the maximum total MCAT score.
What is 528?
This cranial nerve allows for lateral eye movement.
What is the abducens nerve (CN VI)?
This pillar refers to a patient's right to self-determination and to make their own informed healthcare choices.
What is patient autonomy?
A 60-year-old has crushing chest pain radiating to the left arm, with sweating and nausea.
What is a heart attack?
On an ECG, this complex represents ventricular depolarization.
What is the QRS complex?
Dental school applicants must take this exam, which includes a Perceptual Ability Test.
What is the DAT?
This hormone, made by pancreatic beta cells, lowers blood glucose.
What is insulin?
This term describes genuine clinical uncertainty about which of two or more treatments is better.
What is clinical equipoise?
A patient has extreme thirst, frequent urination, and weight loss, with a very high blood glucose.
What is diabetes mellitus?
To measure blood pressure, a clinician wraps a cuff around the arm and inflates it while reading this long-named device.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
Most US veterinary schools use this centralized application service.
What is the VMCAS?
Type II pneumocytes secrete this substance, which reduces alveolar surface tension.
What is surfactant?
This term describes a patient's ability to understand information and appreciate the consequences of a medical decision.
What is decision-making capacity?
A teenager has pain that starts near the belly button, moves to the right lower abdomen, and comes with fever and nausea.
Stroking the lateral sole of the foot produces dorsiflexion of the big toe with fanning of the other toes, a sign of upper motor neuron damage in adults.
What is the Babinski sign?
The maximum number of allowed "most meaningful" experiences in the AMCAS application.
What is 3?