Anatomy
Diseases and Treatments
Health Professions
Medical Words
Historical Medicine
100

The largest organ in your body.

What is skin?

100

The process used to treat kidneys by removing excess water, solutes, and toxins.

What is dialysis?

100
How long does medical school typically take?

4 years

100

Anterior

The front

100

Disease that killed 1/3 of Europe

Black Death

200
The internal organ that stores bile

What is the gallbladder?

200

The active ingredient in Tylenol.

Acetaminophen

200
Which specialty pays doctors the most?

Neurosurgery

200

Sphincter

A ring of muscle surrounding and serving to guard or close an opening or tube

200

What decade did the HIV/AIDS pandemic begin?

1980s

300

The part of your body where your skin is the thinnest.

What are the eyelids?

300

The only disease to be eradicated worldwide.

What is smallpox?

300

A nephrologist specializes in the treatment of which organ?

Kidneys

300

Epistaxis

Nosebleed

300

Who invented bifocals (a type of glasses)

Benjamin Franklin

400

What part of the eye controls the amount of light that enters?

The iris
400

The MMR vaccine prevents which three diseases?

Measles, mumps, and Rubella

400

What is the difference between a gynecologist and an obstetrician? 

Gynecologists do not treat pregnant women, but obstetricians exclusively treat pregnant women.

400

Haptic

Relating to the sense of touch

400

What were chainsaws originally made for?

Childbirth

500

Where in the body are the ossicle bones?

The ear

500
HIV stands for what disease?

Human immunodeficiency virus

500

What is the median income for a doctor in the United States? (Be within $50,000)

$230,000

500

Pica (eating disorder)

An eating disorder in which a person eats things not usually considered food (like dirt)

500

What decade did the CDC first recommend against drinking alcohol while pregnant?

The 1970s