Anatomy
This is the number of bones in the adult human body.
What is 206?
This is the amount of time it takes for a red blood cell to make a complete circuit of the body, head to toe.
What is 20 seconds?
The medical device known as a sphygmomanometer is used to measure this important cardiovascular value.
What is blood pressure?
Eat your ice cream too fast and you may develop sphenopalatine ganglion neuralgia, more widely known as this.
What is brain freeze?
Some people take this medication to stop a headache, some people take it to prevent blood clots, and some people use it to reduce a fever.
What is aspirin?
More commonly referred to as the “collarbone,” this is the bone that connects the shoulder to the rest of the skeleton.
What is the clavicle?
A newborn baby had roughly this much blood in its body.
What is 1 cup?
Shooting a laser beam through the nail bed allows this to be measured and collected.
What is oxygen saturation?
This route for administering medicine is often seen in patients in the hospital setting.
What is intravenous?
Docusate sodium, or Colace and psyllium (Metamucil) are both examples of this type of drug.
Originating from the Greek word for seahorse, this part of the brain is involved in memory.
What is the hippocampus?
Platelets, plasma, and red blood cells are constantly being produced by this body structure.
What is the bone marrow?
In children, more so than adults, a significant increase in this important vital sign can cause severe manifestations, such as seizures.
What is temperature?
A person with kidney stones may be seen in this specific medical specialty.
What is nephrology?
This medical term refers to the study of drugs and medications, and is also a course included in most nursing programs.
What is pharmacology?
The word “cervical” coordinates with this part of the body.
What is the neck?
Capable of directly extracting oxygen from air, this organ is the only place in the body where blood cannot be found.
What is the cornea?
The terms “tachycardia” and “bradycardia” refer to an increase or decrease in this vital measurement.
What is heart rate?
Seen in almost every patient diagnosed with COVID-19, this word means difficulty breathing.
What is dyspnea?
The drug, acetaminophen, has many medicinal effects, the primary one being pain relief. Acetaminophen is better known by this common name.
What is tylenol?
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
Naming it after a type of monkey, Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Weiner discovered this new blood type attribute in 1937.
What is the Rhesus Factor?
True or false? By the time you’re 70 years old, you’ll have taken at least 600 million breaths.
What is true?
In 1982, the development of this IV securement device greatly aided medical professionals across the country.
What is a Tegaderm?
In 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming made a chance discovery from an already discarded, contaminated Petri dish. This discovery came to be one of the most widely used antibiotics.
What is penicillin?