Organs
Diseases & Conditions
Terminology
Treatments & Tools
Medical Dramas
100

This organ churns food and secretes acid for digestion.

What is the stomach?
100

This disease is caused by insufficient insulin production or response.

What is diabetes mellitus?

100

Meaning "inflammation," this prefix is added to words.

What is "-itis"?
100

An MRI uses these to produce detailed body images. 

What is radio waves/magnets?

100

This long-running ABC drama created by Shonda Rhimes follows the lives of surgical interns at Seattle Grace Hospital. 

What is Grey's Anatomy?

200

Responsible for gas exchange, this pair of organs exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide with the blood. 

What are the lungs?

200

This disease almost always results in death, unless treatment comes soon after exposure. This disease always travels from animal to human. You will see foaming of the mouth when something has this.  

What is rabies?

200

This suffix means "surgical removal of"

What is "-ectomy"?

200

This sharp tool is used by surgeons to make precise cuts?

What is a scalpel?

200

This series is part of a franchise that includes Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D.

What is Chicago Med?

300
This tube carries air from the larynx to the bronchi. 

What is the trachea?

300

This condition is characterized by brittle bones due to low bone density?

What is osteoporosis?
300

A disease that is spread rapidly across countries or continents is described by this word.

What is a pandemic?

300

This device measures blood pressure.

What is a sphygmomanometer?
300

This FOX series starred Hugh Laurie as a sarcastic diagnostician with a limp and a cane.

What is House, M.D.?


400
This organ secretes bile and is the only one in the human body capable of regenerating portions of itself after injury.

What is the liver?

400

This that viral infection that plagued the Continental Army during the American Revolution was eradicated worldwide in 1980.

What is smallpox?

400
The root word "nephr/o" refers to this primary organ  

What is the kidney?

400

An ultrasound has this function.

What is creating pictures of internal organs using sound waves?

400
This CBS comedy-drama set during the Korean War featured surgeons nicknamed Hawkeye and Trapper John?

What is M*A*S*H*?

500

This organ contains billions of neurons and is divided into lobes such frontal and occipital. 

What is the brain?

500

This genetic disorder results from a defect in hemoglobin, causing sickle-shaped red blood cells.

What is sickle cell anemia?

500

This term refers to high blood pressure.

What is hypertension?

500

This surgical procedure creates an opening in the trachea to help breathing.

What is a a tracheostomy?

500

This emmy-award winning medical drama starring Noah Wyle depicts a 15-hour ER shift.

What is The Pitt?