Cardiology
What are the 4 chambers of the heart?
What skin pigment gives skin its color?
Melanin
What imaging technique is used to monitor a fetus during development?
Ultrasound
Which cortical lobe processes sound?
Temporal lobe
What is the surgical procedure called where a small sample of tissue is removed from a patient to test if for cancer?
Biopsy
Which heart valve separates the left atrium from the left ventricle?
The mitral (bicuspid) valve.
What condition causes itchy wheals that come and go?
Urticaria (hives)
What does the "X" in X-ray stand for?
Unknown - because the properties of these rays were unknown at the time.
What are the three signs of stroke:
Face dropping, arm drift, slurred speech/speech difficulty
What aggressive cancer is most heavily linked with UV radiation from the sun and tanning beds?
Melanoma
What structure is known as the heart's natural pacemaker, and what electrical event does it initiate?
The sinoatrial (SA) node. It spontaneously generates electrical impulses that initiate atrial depolarization, causing the atria to contract and setting the heart's rhythm.
What autoimmune disease causes a “butterfly rash”?
Lupus
What does the MRI use to image tissues?
A strong magnetic field, radiofrequency pulses, and a computer
What unexpected region contains the largest number of neurons outside of the brain?
The gut
According to the WHO, what is considered the single largest preventable cause of cancer globally?
Tabacco
Which condition causes chest pain that is reproducible with pressing on the chest wall?
Costochondritis
What condition causes depigmented patches due to autoimmune melanocyte loss?
Vitiligo
What type of radiologist specializes in using images to perform minimally invasive procedures like biopsies, angioplasty and stenting and draining abscesses?
Interventional radiologist
The left hemisphere of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body. How does the brain do this?
Neuron crossing or decussation
What is the difference between a benign and malignant tumor?
Benign tumors are not cancerous. Malignant cancer is cancerous and can spread to other parts of the body.
This inherited disorder causes prolonged QT and recurrent syncope triggered by exercise or emotion.
Long QT syndrome
What skin cancer is linked to UV exposure and shows a scaly, crusty lesion?
Squamous cell carcinoma
What was the first human body part X-ray image in history?
A left hand
This famous case-study patient developed severe anterograde amnesia after surgery to treat his debilitating epilepsy, helping scientists discover the hippocampus's role in memory.
Patient H.M or Henry Molaison
The word "cancer" originates from an ancient Greek physician who named it after the resemblance of the swollen, branching blood vessels around a tumor to the limbs of a certain animal. What animal is it?
Crab - Hippocrates used the greek name for crab, "Carcinos"