Spooky Skeletons
This bone connects the femur to the tibia and fibula.
What is the patella?
This protective suit and mask were used by doctors who treated patients during the Black Death.
What is the plague doctor's outfit?
This deadly virus causes the development of zombie-like aggressive behaviors such as biting and thrashing, hallucinations, excessive salivation, and high fever.
What is rabies?
This brain structure is primarily responsible for fear, including detecting perceived threats and activating the body's fight-or-flight response.
What is the amygdala?
This animal is uncommonly known to carry the West Nile virus, which can cause severe illness in humans, and is often transmitted by mosquitoes.
What is a crow?
These are the two bones of the shoulder girdle.
What are the scapula and clavicle?
In the 1800s, this drug was given to children to ease teething pain.
What is morphine?
This disease makes people “allergic” to the sun, similar to vampires.
What is Xeroderma Pigmentosum?
This is the volume of blood your heart pumps in a day.
What is 2,000 gallons?
This animal was used to test streptomycin for tuberculosis treatment in the 1940s.
What is a guinea pig?
This is the most commonly broken bone in the human body.
What is the clavicle?
In Ancient Rome, patients drank this to bolster their strength.
What is blood?
This disorder is an impulse control issue that leads to a desire to taste or drink one's own blood.
What is hemomania?
This zoonotic disease, often spread through contact with rodent droppings or urine, can cause severe respiratory symptoms.
What is hantavirus pulmonary syndrome?
This animal is uncommonly known to carry the West Nile virus, which can cause severe illness in humans, and is often transmitted by mosquitoes.
What is a mosquito?
This bone is the smallest in the human body.
What is the stapes?
In the 1800s, this liquid was used as a substitute for human blood for blood transfusions.
What is cow’s milk?
This syndrome, also known as the Werewolf Syndrome, is characterized by excessive hair growth anywhere on a person’s body, including the face.
What is hypertrichosis?
Crows are often associated with death in literature. What neurological condition, characterized by a morbid preoccupation with death, can be linked to this symbolism?
What is thanatophobia?
This animal was thought to “cure” rheumatoid arthritis in the 1800s when one lay in its carcass for two hours.
What is a whale?
This term refers to low bone mass.
What is osteopenia?
This flea-borne disease caused outbreaks in the 19th century, leading to significant mortality rates among soldiers during the Crimean War.
What is typhus?
This disease, equivalent to mad cow disease in humans, causes blindness, involuntary movements, and mental deterioration.
What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
What psychological condition leads individuals to believe that a loved one has been replaced by an imposter, often described as a spooky or eerie experience?
What is Capgras delusion?
In the 1950s, a Soviet scientist named Vladimir Demikhov pioneered the field of organ transplantation using this animal.
What is a dog?