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Complete the sentence
Latin Word of Origin
100
This 5th century doctor removed superstition from medicine by carefully observing his patients' symptoms and trying to discover their causes. Louis Lasagna updated his oath in the 1970s and it is still used today!
Who is Hippocrates?
100
How to treat a severe toothache if the "pain compels" its removal.
What is driving a peppercorn or ivy bearry into the cavity of the tooth til it splits and falls out in bits....
100
Best completest this sentence: "duo + septem = ____"
What is novem?
100
What Latin word does "lunacy" come from and what does that Latin word mean?
What is 'luna' = moon
200
3rd century Alexandrian mathematician who wrote a geometry textbook called "The Elements" that has been used up to modern times.
Who is Euclid?
200
This was used to relieve pain.
What is the juice of the wild poppy?
200
The word in this series that does NOT belong.... oculus umerus auris locus nasus
What is locus (place)?
200
What Latin word does "persuasion" come from and what does that Latin word mean?
What is 'persuadere', to persuade?
300
This person observed the length of the shadows of vertical sticks in different places in Egypt at high noon and was able to calculate the Earth's circumference with stunning accuracy.
Who is Eratosthenes?
300
The name of the substance in unwashed sheeps wool that helped to relieve swelling and soothe irritation.
What is lanolin?
300
The word that completes this sentence: "nox erat obscura quod _________ non lucebat." a. luna b. mors c. domus d. ars
What is a. luna (moon)?
300
What Latin word does "mortification" come from and what does that Latin word mean?
What is 'mors' (death)?
400
This Alexandrian man created the first recorded water clock and steam turbine. His advancements, among others, would not be used as machines for industry until centuries later, because the ancient Greeks and Romans were accustomed to using the large workforce of slaves.
Who is Hero?
400
The way discovered by Herophilus to determine if someone has a fever.
What is measure the frequency of the pulse?
400
Complete this sentence: "ancillae deae Isidi ___________ offerebant quod de vita Barbilli desperabant." a. collocabant b. mortes c. remedia d. preces
What is d. preces?
400
What Latin word does "indoctrination" come from and what does that Latin word mean?
What is 'doctus' (educated)?
500
One man was a famous Alexandrian anatomist who performed the first recorded dissection on a human corpse. He was able to describe the brain, the optic nerve, the arteries and veins, etc. The other man rediscovered the idea that the earth was round in the 1500s.
Who are Herophilus and Copernicus?
500
What is "by bathing affected body parts with boiling turnips"?
What is the treatment for chilblains?
500
Use the word bank to complete this sentence: Astrologus in cubiculum ___________ et in umerum Barbilli partes muris collocare ____________. arcessivit desperavit intulit irrupuit temptavit reliquit
What is 'irrupuit' and 'temptavit'? [must get both right to get points]
500
What Latin word does "dereliction" come from and what does that Latin word mean?
What is 'relinquere' (to leave behind)?
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