HOSA
When was HOSA founded?
1976
This heart valve lies between the left atrium and left ventricle.
What is the mitral (bicuspid) valve?
The suffix "-megaly" means this.
What is enlargement?
This healthcare professional specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases of skin, hair, and nails?
Who is a dermatologist?
This disease occurs when the body cannot properly regulate blood glucose levels.
What is diabetes?
This annual event brings together HOSA members from around the world to compete and network.
What is the International Leadership Conference (ILC)?
This bone is commonly known as the collarbone.
What is the clavicle?
"Hematopoiesis" refers to this process.
What is blood cell formation?
This allied health professional evaluates and treats patients with communication and swallowing disorders.
Who is a speech-language pathologist?
The virus responsible for AIDS.
What is HIV?
How many membership divisions are in HOSA, and what are they?
3 Divisions: Middle School, Secondary, Post-secondary/Collegiate
The functional unit of the kidney.
What is the nephron?
The term "tachypnea" describes this condition.
This healthcare provider administers anesthesia and monitors patients during surgical procedures.
Who is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) or anesthesiologist?
What is cancer?
What are the three official colors of HOSA?
Medical White, Navy Blue, and Maroon
This structure carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
What are the pulmonary veins?
The root "myelo-" can refer to these two body structures.
What are the spinal cord and bone marrow?
This laboratory professional performs complex testing to help diagnose, monitor, and treat disease.
Who is a Medical Laboratory Scientist?
This genetic disorder is caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.
What is Down syndrome?
What did HOSA used to stand for?
Health Occupations Students of America
Describe the structures blood flows through in the heart in order from the right atrium.
Right atrium, tricuspid valve, right ventricle, pulmonary valve, pulmonary arteries, lungs, pulmonary veins, left atrium, bicuspid/mitral valve, left ventricle, aorta
"Osteochondritis" is inflammation involving these two tissues.
This physician specializes in diagnosing disease by examining tissues, organs, and bodily fluids.
Who is a pathologist?
The autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the myelin sheath of nerves.
What is multiple sclerosis (MS)?