"Easy"
How many patellas do human beings have?
Two
What does a sphygmomanometer measure?
blood pressure
Which of your organs is approximately seven metres in length?
small intestine
Which key innovation, a way of taking a ‘photo’ of the inside of the body, was accidentally discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895?
X-ray
Cranium
head
Which of your organs has stopped if you are experiencing a cardiac arrest?
Heart
Which tubes carry oxygenated blood from the heart?
arteries
Humans share 98.8% of their DNA with which animal?
chimpanzees
In what year did the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic, which infected an estimated 500 million people and killed 50 million, begin?
1918
Femur
leg
Pituitary, Thyroid and Prostate are all types of what?
Glands
Which medical specialty is concerned with diseases of the blood?
Haematology
To the nearest ten percent, what percentage of the human body is made up of water?
60%
Which 19th century Austrian is known as ‘the father of Psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
Meta-tarsal
foot
For what do the initials G.P. stand?
General Practitioner
Used to treat patients with defective kidneys, how is the process of removing excess water, solutes and toxins from the blood known?
dialysis
To the nearest hundred, how many muscles are there in the body?
600
Extremely rare today, which disease, caused by a lack of ascorbic acid in the body, was the scourge of sailors up until the mid-18th century?
scurvy
Clavicle
chest
Where might you be surrounded by amniotic fluid?
In the womb
What condition occurs when proteins in the eye form clumps, preventing normal movement of light through the eye and resulting in a clouding of the lens?
cataracts
More than half of your bones are located in which two parts of the body?
hands and feet
Who created the smallpox vaccine and is sometimes known as ‘the father of immunisation’?
Edward Jenner
Stapes
ear