Medical Tools
Fields of Medicine
Name that Organ
Riddles
Medical History
100

Doctors use this to listen to your heart and breathing

Stethoscope

100

Specializes in children (up to 18)

Pediatrician

100

The organ that pumps blood throughout your body

Heart

100

What do you call cheese that isn't yours?

Nacho cheese

200

Doctors use this under your knee to check your reflexes

Reflex hammer

200

Specializes in diseases in the heart and blood vessels

Cardiologist

200

The largest organ of the human body which protects our bodies from germs, UV rays, and injury

Skin

200

Why can't you trust an atom?

Because they make up everything!

300

Small sharp knife used to make incisions

Scalpel

300

Specializes in the condition of skin, hair, and nails.

Dermatologist

300

Filters waste and excess fluid from the blood to produce urine.

Kidneys

300

What has a heart that doesn't beat?

Artichoke

400

Doctors use this to look in your ears and the back of your throat (typically for physicials)

Octoscope

400

Gives medicine and anesthesia to prevent pain and movement during surgery

Anesthesiologist

400

Controls all bodily functions, thoughts, and emotions, and is protected by the skull.

Brain

400

I grow like a vine in the forest, but I can also be attached to needles in hospitals. What am I?

IV (Ivy)

500

A flexible tube inserted into a vein for administering fluids

IV

500

Performs surgery on the musculoskeletal system, such as bones, joints, and muscles.

Orthopedic Surgeon

500

A tube-like organ in the digestive system that absorbs nutrients from food and removes waste from the body.

Intestines

500

A father and son are in a car crash. The father dies. The son is rushed to the hospital. The surgeon sees the boy and says, "I can't operate, that boy is my son!" How is this possible?

The surgeon is the boy's mother

500

Who was the woman who invented mental hospitals and sought to improve mental health treatment in the 1800s?

Dorothea Dix