Body Basics
This organ pumps blood throughout your body.
What is the Heart?
This professional dispenses medications and helps patients understand how to use them.
What is a pharmacist?
The abbreviation “BP” stands for this.
What is blood pressure?
This molecule stores genetic information in human cells.
What is DNA?
“Humans only use 10% of their brains.”
Myth. We use many brain regions throughout the day.
These organs filter blood and produce urine.
What are he Kidneys?
This professional treats problems involving teeth and gums.
Who is a dentist?
The prefix “tachy-,” as in tachycardia, means this.
What is fast?
A solution with a pH below 7 is described as this.
What is acidic?
“Antibiotics treat viral infections like the common cold.”
Myth. Antibiotics target bacteria, not viruses.
This is the largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
This professional helps patients improve movement and recover physical function after injuries.
Who is a physical therapist?
The suffix “-itis,” as in arthritis, means this.
What is inflammation?
These biological catalysts speed up chemical reactions in the body.
What are enzymes?
“A person can have high blood pressure without noticeable symptoms.”
Fact. High blood pressure often has no symptoms.
These tiny air sacs in the lungs are where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.
What are the alveoli?
This laboratory professional analyzes blood, urine, and other samples to help diagnose disease.
Who is a medical laboratory scientist, or clinical laboratory scientist?
A medication given “sublingually” is placed here.
Where is under the tongue?
This process moves water across a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
“Arteries always carry oxygen-rich blood.”
Myth. Arteries carry blood away from the heart. Pulmonary arteries carry oxygen-poor blood to the lungs.
This natural pacemaker starts the electrical signal that controls a normal heartbeat.
What is the sinoatrial node, or SA node?
This professional helps people understand inherited conditions and genetic testing results
Who is a genetic counselor?
This term describes an insufficient supply of oxygen to body tissues.
What is hypoxia?
This type of chemical bond joins amino acids together in proteins.
What is a peptide bond?
“A positive screening test always means someone has the disease.”
Myth. False positives can occur, and follow-up testing may be needed.