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This gland, often called the "master gland," sits at the base of the brain and controls many other hormone-producing glands in the body.
What is the pituitary gland?
This is PhiDE's official motto, Latin for "Deeds, Not Words."
What is Facta Non Verba?
A young patient presents with sudden weight loss despite increased appetite, excessive thirst, and frequent urination. Blood glucose is significantly elevated.
What is Type 1 diabetes?
This particle, found in the nucleus of an atom alongside protons, has no electrical charge.
What is a neutron?
The ER acronym “CPR” stands for this.
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
This small, worm-shaped pouch attached to the large intestine has no known essential function but can become dangerously inflamed.
What is the appendix?
This Baptist minister founded Temple University by tutoring working-class students at night in the basement of his church.
Who is Russell Conwell?
A patient reports resting tremor, muscle rigidity, slow movements, and a shuffling gait. Symptoms improve somewhat with levodopa.
What is Parkinson's disease?
This nitrogenous base pairs with adenine in DNA, connected by two hydrogen bonds.
What is thymine?
Patients are kept NPO before surgery to reduce the risk of this complication.
What is aspiration?
This flap of cartilage folds down over the windpipe during swallowing to prevent food from entering the airway.
What is the epiglottis?
Temple's hospital began with just twenty beds and this many full-time staff members.
What is two? (one doctor, one nurse)
A patient presents with a barrel-shaped chest, chronic cough with sputum production, and shortness of breath. They have a 30-year smoking history.
What is COPD (chronic bronchitis/emphysema)?
This neurotransmitter is the primary inhibitory chemical in the brain, and drugs like benzodiazepines work by enhancing its effects.
What is GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)?
Providing care that focuses on comfort rather than cure is known as this approach.
What is palliative care?
This valve sits between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart, and its malfunction can cause a distinctive heart murmur.
What is the mitral (bicuspid) valve?
This national organization, focused on helping children's hospitals, is PhiDE's official philanthropy.
What is the Children's Miracle Network?
A patient presents with yellowing of the skin and eyes, dark urine, and severe upper right abdominal pain after eating fatty foods.
What is cholecystitis (gallstones)?
This type of isomer has the same molecular formula and connectivity but differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms, such as cis/trans forms.
What is a stereoisomer?
A patient has a blood pressure of 90/60 and a heart rate of 120 after losing a significant amount of blood. Which variable is the body primarily trying to preserve through the increased heart rate?
What is cardiac output?
This sac of fluid cushions joints and reduces friction between bones, tendons, and muscles — inflammation of one causes a common shoulder or elbow condition.
What is the bursa (bursitis)?
This is PhiDE's official flower.
What is the scarlet red carnation?
A patient develops a high fever, headache, and a stiff neck, and becomes confused. A lumbar puncture shows cloudy cerebrospinal fluid with elevated white blood cells.
What is bacterial meningitis?
This amino acid, the only one without a chiral center, is the smallest and simplest of the twenty standard amino acids.
What is glycine?
A patient suddenly develops facial drooping, unilateral weakness, and slurred speech. Their symptoms began 45 minutes ago. What test must be performed immediately to distinguish ischemic stroke from hemorrhagic stroke?
What is a non-contrast CT of the head?