Medical Terminology
Neuroplasty
What is the surgical repair of a nerve?
A title that refers to a veterinarian who is board certified in a veterinary specialty area.
What is a diplomate?
MCAT:
A child has experienced nervous system damage and can no longer coordinate the movements to dribble a basketball, although she can walk. Which region of the central nervous system was most likely affected?
What is hindbrain?
Practical discipline that aims to resolve ethical questions or disagreements that emerge in the practice of health care.
What is clinical ethics?
This historical Greek text was originally written in 5th century BC, and is now prominently known as a code for ethics.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
Inflammation of the skin
What is dermatitis?
Physicians that specialize in the treatment and management of diseases and disorders of the ear, nose, throat, and related bodily structures.
What are otolaryngologists?
PCAT:
Which of the following is closest to the bond angle between the carbons in a molecule of acetone?
What is 120?
Giving of oneself (financial, 'heroic' acts, etc.) when it will provide no direct benefit to the provider.
What is altruism?
He is creator of the first successful vaccine which was made by introducing material from a cowpox vesicle into the arm of a boy. Two months later he inoculated the boy with smallpox and the disease did not develop.
Who is Edward Jenner?
Hepatomegaly
What is abnormal enlargement of the liver?
The specialty that requires the has the most amount of years of training in residency.
What is neurosurgery?
GRE:
A certain pet store sells only dogs and cats. In March, the store sold twice as many dogs as cats. In April, the store sold twice the number of dogs that it sold in March, and three times the number of cats that it sold in March. If the total number of pets the store sold in March and April combined was 500, how many dogs did the store sell in March?
What is 100?
Governmental efforts to manage health care as a public good
What is health policy?
This anesthetic was first successfully used in a tooth extraction by dentist Horace Wells.
What is nitrous oxide?
a bruise caused by blunt trauma to the skin
What is ecchymosis?
The 5-in demand medical specialties declared by the AMA in 2018-2019.
What is family medicine, psychiatry, internal medicine, radiology, and obstetrics/gynecology?
DAT:
A roulette wheel consists of 38 slots. 36 of these are numbered 1 through 36 and colored red or black so that there are nine red even-numbered slots, nine black odd-numbered slots, etc. These slots occur with equal probability. The two slots marked 0 or 00 are each three times as likely to occur as any one of the other 36. What is the probability that a red even number, a red 23, or a 00 will occur on one roll of the wheel?
What is 13/42?
The main four sectors of ethical issues in healthcare.
What is patient privacy and confidentiality, transmission of diseases, relationships, and end-of-life issues?
In ancient Egypt this strange combination was known as the earliest form of contraceptive.
What is honey sap and Crocodile dung?
A condition characterized by the destruction of the walls of the alveoli, which results in over inflated air sacs
What is emphysema?
The nine specialties the ADA recognizes in dentistry.
What is dental public health; endodontics; oral and maxillofacial pathology; oral and maxillofacial radiology; oral and maxillofacial surgery; orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics; pediatric dentistry; periodontics; and prosthodontics?
MCAT:
In miRNA-directed gene silencing, a small RNA binds to an mRNA and directs degradation of the mRNA or prevents translation of the mRNA. What term describes the process through which binding occurs?
What is Hybridization?
The governing of behavior in accordance with specific situational rules (frequently used in a derogatory manner).
What is casuistry?
In the 1730s, Stephen Hales first measured this by using a crude manometer and sticking a tube in a horse's artery.
What is blood pressure?