Medical Terminology
Suffix meaning inflammation
What is -itis?
The president of Northeastern.
Who is Joseph Aoun
The longest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
Chronic disease characterized by high blood sugar due to problems with insulin.
What is diabetes mellitus?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is brady-
The year Northeastern was founded.
What is 1898?
The largest internal organ in the human body.
What is the liver?
This “childhood disease” once common before vaccines causes a red, blotchy rash and Koplik’s spots in the mouth.
What is measles?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Cardiomegaly refers to this condition of the heart.
What is enlargement of the heart?
The sports championship game played on the grounds of Cabot Center.
What is the first World Series?
The part of the brain that controls balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
This disease is also called “lockjaw” because it causes severe muscle spasms.
What is tetanus?
This Shakespeare play features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
What is Hamlet?
The common name for piloerection or horripilation
What is goosebumps
This famous female TV host graduated from Northeastern.
Wendy Williams
The small bones in the inner ear are collectively known by this term.
What are the ossicles?
Also called Hansen’s disease, this illness was once thought to cause body parts to “fall off,” but actually damages nerves and skin.
What is leprosy?
This famous speech begins with “Four score and seven years ago…”
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Borborgyrus is the medical term for this familiar bodily sound.
What is stomach growl?
The number of undergraduate majors at Northeastern.
What is 371?
The "funny bone" sensation comes from compression of this nerve.
What is the ulnar nerve?
This prion disease, once common in Papua New Guinea, spread through ritualistic cannibalism.
What is kuru?
This insect can lift 50 times its body weight.
What is an ant?