Medical Anatomy
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
Tachycardia means a heart rate that is abnormally ____.
What is fast?
Following a physician in clinic to observe patient care is called this.
What is shadowing?
A cardiologist specializes in this organ
What is the heart?
This Washington, D.C. university’s medical school, founded in 1868, is one of the four historically Black medical schools.
What is Howard University (College of Medicine)?
Gas exchange in the lungs happens in these tiny air sacs.
What are alveoli?
The suffix “-itis” means this.
What is inflammation?
This is the acronym for the centralized application service for MD programs.
What is AMCAS?
This specialty treats kidney disease, including dialysis and electrolyte disorders.
What is nephrology?
In 1987, Dr. Ben Carson led the team that separated conjoined twins joined at this part of the body.
What is the head?
This is the longest cranial nerve, and it helps control heart rate and digestion.
What is the vagus nerve?
The root “nephro-” refers to this organ.
What is the kidney?
The letters D.O. stand for this degree.
What is Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine?
This primary care specialty trains doctors to treat patients of all ages, from newborns to the elderly.
What is family medicine?
The nonprofit “Black Men in White Coats” aims to increase the number of Black men in this profession.
What is physicians?
This brain structure relays most sensory information to the cerebral cortex.
What is the thalamus?
Dyspnea is difficulty doing this.
What is breathing?
The total MCAT score runs from 472 to this number.
What is 528?
This specialty focuses on restoring function after injury or illness, from stroke rehab to spinal cord injury care.
What is physical medicine and rehabilitation?
This doctor’s research on storing blood plasma helped create blood banks.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
Cells in the afferent arteriole sense low blood pressure and release this enzyme, which kicks off the RAAS cascade.
What is renin?
Hematemesis is the medical term for vomiting this.
What is blood?
AMCAS opens for editing in May, but the first applications are sent to schools in this month.
What is June?
This subspecialty uses imaging guidance to perform minimally invasive procedures like embolization and biopsies.
What is interventional radiology?
In 1992, Dr. Mae Jemison, a physician, became the first Black woman to do this.
What is travel to space?