Medical Abbreviations
Injuries are sometimes treated with PT, short for this
What is: Physical Therapy
His first law of motion is the law of inertia
What is: Newton's Law
This puzzle game's name is a shortening of a Japanese phrase that means "the numbers are restricted to single status"
What is: Sudoku
If something triggers a strong emotional response, it might "strike" one of these harmonic note combos
What is: Strike a chord
To offer something for purchase, or the basic structural unit of an organism
What is: sell / cell
In the U.K. patients are often treated by a GP, short for this
What is: General practitioner
Hg is the symbol for this element
What is: Mercury
Richard Garfield "Gather"ed his wits to create this 1993 fantasy card game
What is: Magic - The Gathering
Playing this stringed instrument means to take a subordinate role
What is: Second Fiddle
A female antelope, or material to be baked
What is: doe / dough
RA is this joint disease
What is: Rheumatoid Arthritis
A mother's levels of this "hormone of love" may influence the intensity of the bond between her & her child
What is: oxytocin
George Lerner originally had trouble selling this toy because after WWII it seemed wasteful to make toys using veggies
What is: Mr. Potato Head
To make yourself look good, sometimes you have to do this, sound a brass instrument with a flared bell
A lowly servant in the era of knights, or the central part of a church
What is: a knave / nave
According to the initials, COPD is this type of pulmonary disease
What is: Chronic Obstructive
The human this is all of the 3 billion base pairs of DNA that make up the entire set of a person's chromosomes
What is: genome
While recovering from polio in 1948, teacher Eleanor Abbott invented this "sweet" board game for the children in the ward to play
What is: Candy Land
To do things your own way & disregard convention is to "march to" this sound
What is: march to the beat of your own drum
A measure of gold purity, or a Bugs Bunny favorite
What is: carat / carrot
During this surgery, TKR, the ends of the femur & tibia are removed & then capped with metal & plastic pieces
What is: Total Knee Replacement
Working according to the same principles as a laser, a maser gets the "M" in its name from this word
What is: microwave
Created in 1959, these dolls named for a creature of Scandinavian folklore were known for their unique hairstyles
What are: Trolls
Someone who repeats the same thing over & over "sounds like" one of these, perhaps a scratched 45
What is: A broken record
To fire a .45, or a sloping channel for water
What is: shoot / chute