Pre-Med
This suffix indicates the surgical removal of a body part.
What is -ectomy?
The mathematical symbol "!" which represents the product of all positive integers up to that number.
What is a factorial?
The functional group is characterized by a hydroxyl (-OH) group.
What is an alcohol?
The long-running ABC medical drama featuring characters like Meredith Grey and Miranda Bailey.
What is Grey's Anatomy?
The common medical term for low blood sugar.
What is hypoglycemia?
This process, which occurs in the cytoplasm, is the first step in cellular respiration.
What is glycolysis?
The Henderson-Hasselbalch equation relates pH to pKa and the ratio of these two chemical components.
What are conjugate base and weak acid?
This rule states that in the addition of HX to an alkene, the hydrogen adds to the carbon with the most hydrogens.
What is Markovnikov’s Rule?
The real-life physician and "America's Doctor" who became a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Who is Dr. Anthony Fauci?
The scientific name for the "kneecap."
What is the patella?
Under the 2025-2026 MCAT updates, this section tests your ability to evaluate bias and rhetoric in complex passages.
What is CARS - Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills?
In an ECG, this segment represents the time during which the ventricles are entirely depolarized.
What is the ST segment?
The catalyst used to limit the hydrogenation of an alkyne to an alkene.
What is Lindlar’s catalyst?
Though he is a fictional "consulting detective," this character’s use of deductive reasoning and observation was explicitly modeled after Dr. Joseph Bell, a teacher of author Arthur Conan Doyle.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
How many people have walked on the moon?
What is 12?
The four pillars of medical ethics are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and this term, meaning "to do no harm."
What is non-maleficence?
A flat line on an EKG, indicating the heart has stopped pumping.
What is asystole?
This analytical technique uses radio waves to determine the carbon-hydrogen framework of a molecule.
What is NMR Spectroscopy?
In the 2023 blockbuster Oppenheimer, the protagonist’s heavy smoking habit eventually leads to this specific type of cancer, which killed the real J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1967.
What is throat cancer/laryngeal cancer?
While often associated with its northern neighbor, this African country actually contains over 250 pyramids, more than double the amount found in Egypt.
What is Sudan?
This 1910 report transformed American medical education by establishing higher standards for medical schools.
What is the Flexner Report?
Calculate the MAP (Mean Arterial Pressure) for a patient with a blood pressure of 120/80.
What is 93.3 mmHg?
The name of the reaction that converts a primary amide to a primary amine with one fewer carbon atom.
What is the Hofmann Rearrangement?
In the show House M.D., the title character suffers from chronic pain and a limp due to this specific vascular event in his quadriceps muscle.
What is an infarction/aneurysm leading to muscle necrosis?
Introduced by the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century, the "Joachimsthaler" was a silver coin minted in Bohemia. The word was eventually shortened to "Thaler," which is the linguistic ancestor of this current world currency.
What is the Dollar?