Medical Terminology
What is the prefix for lacking or without?
Prefix A- or an- mean
What receptors detect color on the retina?
Cones
This person holds AMSA’s current wall sit record.
David Plata
What is the name of the French chemist who discovered the process of pasteurization, which revolutionized the food and beverage industry and helped prevent diseases caused by contaminated food and drinks?
Louis Pasteur
Carcinophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Cancer
What is high blood pressure called?
Hypertension
What flap keeps food from entering your respiratory system when you swallow?
Epiglottis
Srihith is in this fraternity:
What is Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike)
What is the name of the first antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, which revolutionized the treatment of bacterial infections?
Penicillin
Who won album of the year in 2023?
Harry Styles :)))
Swelling caused by fluid accumulation.
Edema
What are the 3 types of muscle?
Smooth, cardiac and skeletal
These two AMSA officers have been on the officer team the longest.
Who are Matthew Araujo and Karla Menchu-saban
What is the term for the ancient medical practice of using leeches to drain blood from a patient?
Bloodletting.
What gets bigger the more you take away
A hole
A blood cut that forms inside a blood vessel restricting blood flow?
Thrombosis
Which of the following terms describes the motion of bending the forearm toward the body?
Flexion
This person’s name is a name forwards and backwards.
Retlaw
What is the name of the study that involved the unethical withholding of treatment from African American men who had syphilis by the US government in 1971?
Tuskegee syphilis study
I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
Pencil lead
A hinged instrument, like scissors, used to grasp and hold objects?
Forceps
What structure in the ear controls the sense of equilibrium and balance?
Semicircular canals
This officer does everything from skydiving to multivariable vector calculus.
Matthew Acs
Who is credited with the development of the smallpox vaccine in 1796, which helped to eradicate the disease?
Edward Jenner
How old is the oldest piece of chewing gum
Over 9000 years old