Human Body
Medical Instruments
Journey to Medicine
Procedures
Types of Doctors
100

The thigh bone. It's the longest, strongest bone in your body. It's a critical part of your ability to stand and move.

What is the femur?

100

An instrument used to hear heart sounds. 

What is a stethoscope? 

100

The educational institution after undergrad that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians.

What is medical school?

100

Procedure in which the appendix is removed.

What is an Appendectomy?

100

A medical doctor who diagnoses and treats conditions that affect your nervous system, including your brain, spinal cord, and nerves.

What is a neurosurgeon?

200

The number of bones found in the human body.

What is 206?

200

A soft flexible tube placed inside a vein, usually in the hand or arm. Health care providers use it to give a person medicine or fluids.

What is a intravenous line (IV)?

200

A test required to apply to medical school.

What is the MCAT?

200

A computed tomography scan is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body.

What is a CT scan?

200

A doctor that specializes in anesthesia care, pain management, and critical care medicine

What is an anesthesiologist?

300

The main tissue component of the nervous system.

What is nervous tissue? 

300

A small and extremely sharp-bladed instrument used for surgery and anatomical dissection.

What is a scalpel? 

300

An exam that licenses a doctor and possible certification opportunities that increase employment (taken after residency).

What is the board exam?

300

A procedure in which a small brush is used to gently remove cells from the surface of the cervix.

What is a pap smear?

300

A medical doctor specializing in conditions that affect the urinary tract in men, women and children, and diseases that affect the reproductive system

What is a urologist?

400

The suture of the skull connects the two parietal bones at the top of the skull. 

What is the sagittal suture?

400

A tool used to see inside the body using sound waves.

What is an ultrasound?

400

A program with admittance into undergrad and medical school at the same time. You apply in your senior year of high school.

What is a BS/MD program?

400

A major surgical operation most often performed to remove cancerous tumors from the head of the pancreas

What is a whipple procedure?

400

A branch of medicine that specializes in the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth and in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the female reproductive organs.

what are obstetricians and gynecologists?

500

The part of the body where the Hammer, Anvil, and Stirrup bones can be found.

What is the ear?

500

An instrument used to look inside ears. 

What is an otoscope?

500

The length of residency for a neurological surgeon.

What is 7 years?

500
A test of the action of the heart using ultrasound waves to produce a visual display, used for the diagnosis or monitoring of heart disease.


What is an echocardiogram?

500

A medical doctor that specializes in diagnosing and treating injuries and diseases using medical imaging

What is a radiologist?