Anatomy
The number of muscles the human body has
What is 650?
The ancient Greek philosopher known as the father of medicine.
Who is Hippocrates?
The name of a deadly mosquito born disease
What is malaria?
What is the Black Plague?
The medical term that describes the scarping away of skin or mucous membrane by friction.
A. Abrasion
B. Scrape
C. Contusion
What is A. Abrasion?
A structured group of cells with specific functions.
What are organs?
In 1927, Philip Drink invented the ‘iron lung’ to help patients paralyzed by a disease.
A. polio
B. TB
C. Malaria
D. Parkinson's Disease
What is A. Polio?
If a person is suffering from locked jaw, they are suffering from
A. Smallpox
B. Cholera
C. Tetanus
D. Mumps
What is C. Tetanus?
The prefix cardio- refers to
What is anything relating to the heart?
The medical term for a headache
A. migraine
B. cephalgia
C. concussion
What is B. cephalgia?
The longest and largest bone in the body.
The femur (thigh bone)
This person identified the water pump as the source of the cholera outbreak in 1854
A. John Snow
B. Bertram Collip
C. William Hinton
D. Ronald Malt
What is A. John Snow?
The scientific term for a disease that causes dizziness
A. Vertical
B. vermin
C. Vertigo
What is C. Vertigo?
During the height of the revolutionary war, in 1777, George Washington went against a 1776 proclamation of the Continental Congress and ordered his troops vaccinated against a disease.
What is smallpox?
Term for bulging of the eyes
A. ophthalmus
B. opacification
C. exophthalmos
What is C. exophthalmos?
Type of blood that is a universal donor
What is O negative?
The first organ that was transplanted when the first successful organ transplant occured
A. heart
B. liver
C. Kidney
D. Lung
What is C. Kidney?
A kind of flu
A. H1N1
B. HOV
C. HIV/AIDS
D. H2O
What is A. H1N1?
The study of tissues
What is histology?
The prefix hemo refers to
Blondes have more hair follicles than brunettes. True or False
What is true?
4. In medieval times, doctors would use the ancient Greek idea of balancing the four humours (liquids) found in the body to work out why a patient was ill. These included phlegm (snot), yellow bile, black bile and one other liquid.
A. Blood
B. Urine
C. Vomit
D. Sweat
What is A. Blood?
This pandemic was spread to humans by infection by body lice
A. Yellow Fever
B. Smallpox
C. Pneumonic Plague
D. Typhus
What is D. Typhus?
The organ the weighs the most after the skin
What is kidney?
This suffix means to look or observe
A. -scopy/-scopic
B. -tomy
C. -gram
What is A. -scopy/-scopic?