Lab Legends
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100

Known as the father of blood transfusion.  This scientist's research on agglutinins, medical scientists can now classify blood into different groups. 

Who is Karl Lansteiner?

100

A common blood chemistry test that measures a patient's sugar level, electrolyte balance, and kidney function.

What is a BMP (Basic Metabolic Panel)?

100

This diagnosis is characterized by lab results on two occasions of:

Fasting glucose of >126mg/dL

HgA1c of >6.5%

What is Type 2 Diabetes

100

Everyone has a type, but this blood type can mingle with anyone.

What is O negative?

100

Cheeseheads and Barbie's fictional hometown can be found in this state.

What is Wisconsin?

200

This scientist developed principles of microbial fermentation, created a vaccine for rabies, and disproved Aristotle's theory of spontaneous general by showing that germs are responsible for disease.  

Who is Louis Pasteur?

200

This blood test evaluates hemoglobin, hematocrit, white blood cells, red blood cells, red blood cell indices, and platelets.  

What is a CBC (Complete Blood Cell Count)?

200

This condition, characterized by a deficiency in red blood cells or hemoglobin, often leads to fatigue and weakness.

What is anemia?

200

The four components a unit of blood is separated into.

What are red blood cells, plasma, platelets, and cryoprecipitate.

200

This lab-created snack brand, known for its uniform shape, was required to remove 'potato chips' from its packaging because the product is made from dehydrated potato flakes.

What are Pringles?

300

In 1947 this scientist was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in scient and the first to be awarded one in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen. 

Who is Gerty Cori?

300

This laboratory test is used to determine the presence of antibodies in the patient's plasma before a blood transfusion.

What is an antibody screening?

300

This viral infection rose to prominence in the 1980's and causes the depletion of CD4 cells.

What is Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Alternate Answer: What is HIV

300

This blood cell circulates in the body for about 9 days.

What is a platelet?

300

The first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.  

Who is Dolly the sheep?

400

Invented a stain using crystal violet-iodine complex and safranin counterstain to classify bacteria. 

Who is Hans Christian Gram?

400

This test is used to detect bloodstream infections such as bacteremia, fungemia, and sepsis.

What is a blood culture?

400

This disease is characterized by:

T3 - Normal

T4 - Normal

TSH - High

What is primary hypothyroidism?

400

An abnormal and persistent fear of blood.  

What is hemophobia?

Alternative acceptable answer:  What is blood injury injection phobia (BII)?

400

This type of rat has been used in biomedical research for more than 150 years, and in many cases remains the model of choice for studies of physiology, behavior, and complex human disease.

What is Rattus norvegicus?

500

A Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy.  Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure for syphilis and inventing the precursor technique to Gram staining bacteria.

Who is Paul Ehrlich?

500
This test is used for cervical cancer screening. 

What is the Papanivolau test?

Alternate:  What is a PAP test?

500

This disease is characterized by a high WBC count, and lymphocytosis.  It is positive for CD19 (weak), CD20 (weak), CD5, CD23, and monoclonal surface immunoglobulin. 

What is Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia?

Alternate:  What is CLL?

500

Don't let the jewelers know but there is about 0.2mg of this precious metal in your bloodstream.

What is gold?

500

After forgetting to wash his hands one day Constantine Faglber noticed his lunch was unusually sweet creating this accidental discovery by combining o-sulfobenzoic acid with phosphorus chloride and ammonia. 

What is saccharin (Sweet'N Low)?

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