Love thy Liver
For a patient with alcoholic cirrhosis, doing this is the single most important action to stabilize the disease, stop further damage, and improve their long-term survival chances.
What is Abstinence (or "Stopping drinking alcohol")
The Greek root of cirrhosis roughly translates to this.
What is Tawny or Orange-Yellow
The most important animal to BIO 5563
What is the Kangaroo Rat
This organ can regenerate significant portions of itself after injury; one reason it can survive chronic damage for years.
What is the liver
This twin brother committed fratricide and founded the city of Rome.
What is Romulus
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism states that heavy drinking in men is considered drinking this amount or more of drinks in a sitting.
What is 5 Drinks
This common symptom of severe liver disease is the yellowing of the skin and eyes, caused by a buildup of bilirubin, which the damaged liver can't clear.
What is Jaundice
This tiny insect can lift up to 50 times its body weight.
What is an ant
Spiders are able to articulate their joints using this mechanism.
What is hydraulics.
He was the first emperor of Rome, originally named Octavian.
Who is Augustus
This class of medications is central to primary prophylaxis of esophageal varices and works by decreasing portal venous inflow.
What are NSBBs?
NSBBs block both β1 and β2 receptors
These abnormal, tiny, red, spider-like blood vessels that appear on the chest and arms are a common visible sign of advanced cirrhosis.
What is Spider Angiomas
This bird can rotate its head up to 270 degrees without damaging its blood vessels.
What is an owl
This dynamic duo is credited in discovering CRISPR Cas9 Gene Editing. (Will give credit for any of the two)
What is Nobel Laureates Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
This Roman gladiator arena is one of the most famous structures in the world.
What is the Colosseum
Vaccination against these two viruses is recommended to prevent further liver injury.
What are hepatitis A and hepatitis B
When cirrhosis causes high blood pressure in the liver, fluid leaks out and pools in the belly, leading to this symptom of massive abdominal swelling.
This animal’s fingerprints are so similar to humans’ that investigators have had trouble telling them apart.
What is the koala
This immune process “marks” pathogens for destruction using antibodies.
What is opsonization
In 49 BC, Julius Caesar led the 13th Legion across this river, triggering a Roman Civil War.
What is the Rubicon River
While safe for many, this common over-the-counter painkiller must be avoided or strictly limited by cirrhotic patients because it can cause severe liver failure.
Note: This medication is also not for Kai!!!
What is Acetaminophen aka Tylenol aka APAP
Patients with cirrhosis should limit protein only if they develop this neurological complication.
What is hepatic encephalopathy
Solve the riddle: I'm a bird, I'm a fruit, and I'm a person. What am I?
What is kiwi
This man is credited with first identifying liver cirrhosis.
What is Hippocrates (albeit did not have a name for it).
What is René Laennec, a French physician, first identified and named cirrhosis in 1819 .
What year did the Great Schism between East and West occur?
What is 1054