Anatomy
Largest organ in the body
What is the skin?
This disease, spread by mosquitoes, affects red blood cells and is most common in tropical regions.
What is malaria?
The meaning of "BP"
What is blood pressure?
Definition of suture
What is stitches used to close a wound?
The number of senses that humans have
What are five senses?
Main function of the lungs
What is to let oxygen into the body and release carbon dioxide out of the body?
The disease caused by the HIV virus
In a blood pressure reading, there is a top number and bottom number. These two numbers represent...
What is the systolic blood pressure and the diastolic blood pressure?
The first step in closing a deep wound
What is cleaning the wound and stopping the bleeding?
The average temperature of the human body
What is 98.6°F (37°C)?
Organ responsible for filtering blood and producing urine
What is the kidneys?
The disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C
What is Scurvy?
Name the lifestyle changes that can reduce high blood pressure
eating a healthy diet / exercising regularly / reducing salt intake
The technique used to stop/reduce bleeding
The number of teeth that an average adult human have?
What is 32 teeth?
Number of chambers in the heart
The organ that is affected by hepatitis
The medical term for high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
This type of suture is designed to dissolve in the body over time and does not require removal.
What are absorbable sutures?
The number of bones in the adult human body
What are 206 bones?
Name of the artery that carries oxygenated blood to the body
What is the aorta?
The disease that involves plague buildup in arteries
What is Atherosclerosis?
The difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure
Systolic is the pressure when the heart contracts, diastolic is the pressure when the heart relaxes
These sutures are made from materials that do not dissolve in the body and must be removed after healing
What are non-absorbable sutures?
The strongest muscle in the body
What is the masseter muscle / jaw muscle?