I Want to Suck Your Blood (for testing purposes)
A routine blood test for this protein will indicate how well your body can transport oxygen through the blood.
What is hemoglobin?
Doctor's appointment getting you anxious? You might suffer from this condition that affects the blood pressure.
What is white coat hypertension?
This is the formal name for the old brain basket, and also a popular board game.
What is the cranium?
Once you finish all of your candy, this organ will be working overtime to produce enough insulin to keep up with your elevated blood sugar.
What is the pancreas?
One of the most common ways to confirm someone is no longer living is to assess this vital sign for a full minute.
What is the apical pulse?
Residents who take warfarin get this tested often, to ensure the clotting occurs at the proper rate.
What is INR? (International Normalized Ratio)
Even though they're incredibly helpful and rarely dangerous, many people have this phobia of eight legged creatures.
What is arachnophobia?
You won't be laughing if you fall and break this bone, located in your upper arm.
What is the humerus?
Extraction and purification of insulin for medical use was discovered at the University of Toronto by these two, earning them a Nobel Prize.
Who are Frederick Banting and Charles Best?
This is the term used for when someone's breathing begins to switch between rapid deep breaths to shallow slow, to periods of apnea. This cycle often occurs as someone approaches end of life.
What is Cheyne-Stokes breathing?
Not only is it what plants crave (and what's in your Gatorade), this is something tested to ensure proper balance of your bodies minerals.
What are electrolytes?
What is claustrophobia?
Though we often say someone "broke a hip" it's often a fracture to this leg bone, the largest in the body.
What is the femur?
Though not seen too often around these parts, the ideal blood sugar reading is in this range for a healthy adult.
What is 4-8? (Approximately)
Though it depends on varying factors, typically a person's temperature will drop by about this many degrees per hour after death, until it reaches the same level of the environment the person is in.
This condition occurs when the body doesn't have enough red blood cells or hemoglobin to transfer oxygen properly to it's tissues.
What is anemia?
This is the technical name for that uneasy feeling you get when climb to high up on a ladder. Don't look down!
What is acrophobia?
Skeletons can be mighty spooky, but won't be able to do much without this connective tissue joining bone to bone.
What are ligaments?
Many people can manage type 2 diabetes without taking regular doses of insulin, instead taking this common oral medication.
What is metformin?
It always seems to happen quickly in the movies, but this condition actually takes many hours to fully set in, up to 12 hours typically. And it does go away, you're stiff as a board for all eternity.
What is rigor mortis?
What is BUN? (Blood urea nitrogen)
coulrophobia is the name for the complete and totally justifiable fear. It's not in the DSM but it's real to me. Thanks a lot Stephen King.
What are clowns?
If bones were your money, the average adult human would have this many dollars in their body.
What is 206? (Yes it can change, let's not get into it now...)
Feel a tingling in your toes? It could be this type of nerve damage brought on by long term diabetes.
What is diabetic neuropathy?
A lot of future zombie uprisings will be prevented now that 77.4% of people in Canada use this method of burial, up 16% in the last 15 years alone.
What is cremation?