Healthcare Careers
What healthcare professional specializes in drawing blood from patients?
What is a phlebotomist
What chronic metabolic disease is known by elevated levels of blood glucose due to problems in insulin production or action?
What is Diabetes?
What tissue connects bone to bone across a joint?
What is a ligament?
I'm a muscular organ that's divided into four chambers that pump blood throughout your entire circulatory system. What organ am I?
What is a heart?
This hit, long-running medical drama takes place in Seattle, following a new grad surgical intern, her love life, and crazy surgeries.
What is Grey's Anatomy?
What specialist treats diseases of the skin, hair, and nails.
What is a Dermatologist
What inflammatory disease causes the airways in the lungs to swell and become narrow, making breathing difficult?
What is asthma?
What is the main pigment responsible for giving human skin, hair, and eyes their color?
What is melanin?
I'm the largest internal organ that produces bile to help digest fats. What organ am I?
What is the liver?
Sheldon Cooper's favorite thought experiment involving an Austrian physicist's hypothetical cat in a box, which is both alive and dead until someone opens the box.
What is Schrodinger's Cat?
What health professional controls imaging equipment that uses sound waves to create images of internal organs?
What is an Ultrasound technician?
What condition occurs when the force of blood against artery walls in the heart is always elevated?
What is high blood pressure?
What muscular organ contracts downward to create pressure in the chest so the lungs to expand during inhalation?
What is the diaphragm?
I am a small, pear-shaped pouch under the liver that stores and concentrates bile until it's needed in the small intestine. What organ am I?
What is the Gallbladder?
In Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, scientists prove nuclear fission occurred by detecting mass separation of this element?
What is Uranium?
What type of doctor focuses on diagnosing and treating eye conditions?
What is an Ophthalmologist?
Transmitted through contaminated food and water containing this bacterium, this disease causes a diarrheal infection and mass dehydration.
What is cholera?
What specific microscopic sensory structures located within the papillae contain the gustatory cells responsible for detecting taste?
What are the taste buds?
I filter red blood cells to recycle their iron by getting rid of old/damaged ones and make white blood cells!
What is a spleen?
In Captain America, Steve Rogers is transformed by the super soldier serum. In human physiology, synthetic compounds that imitate testosterone to promote muscle growth and called what?
What are anabolic steroids?
What clinical specialist designs and fits custom devices like artificial limbs and spinal braces for patients with musculoskeletal disabilities or limb loss?
What are Prosthetists/Orthotists
Caused by a certain bacterium, this bacterial disease damages the peripheral nerves, skin, and upper respiratory track. It makes patients to lose the ability to feel pain, causing unnoticed injuries that to ulcers and overtime makes fingers and toes fall off.
What is Leprosy?
What gelatinous and transparent substance fills the space between the lens and the retina in the eye? This maintains the spherical shape of the eyeball.
What is the Vitreous humor?
I close off the nasopharynx, so food and liquid don't enter nasal cavity when swallowing and I produce saliva to keep the throat moist.
What is a uvula?
In Dune, the Bene Gesserit spends centuries controlling bloodlines to produce a male who can bridge the spacetime continuum with foresight. In medical terms, this term describes the practice of select breeding to favor specific hereditary traits and is rejected by modern ethics.
What is eugenics?