Hospital Terms
This term means high blood pressure, or a long term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated
Hypertension
If you're 62 or older & receive loans that are charged against your equity in your house, it's this type of mortgage
a reverse mortgage
Natural killer cells target other cells that pose a danger, as in this, the No. 2 cause of death in the U.S.
Cancer
This composer learned to play the piano before he could even read
Mozart
Jamb and Hinge
Door
This is the name for a tiny tissue sample used for medical purposes
A Biopsy
Add 1 letter to a Darwinian word to get this, meaning assuming characteristics of an earlier form
devolution
As part of the immune system, white blood cells fight germs. White blood cells are also known as this
Leukocytes
The minimum number of musicians a band needs to be considered a "big band" is this number.
Ten
Saddle, reigns
Horse
This is another name for a bruise
Contusion
When you loosen a screw and turn left you are going this direction.
counter clockwise
If you are protected from a virus, you are this, also in the name of this category
Immune
From 1950 to 1981, this musical instruments sales escalated from 228,000 to 2.3 million.
Guitar
1 coiled shell, 1 foot
Snail
This refers to the presence of cancerous cells in a tumor or growth
Malignant
In psychology when a 40-year-old acts like a 10-year-old, it's called this
regression
Lymph nodes are found in the neck ,groin, and this area
Armpit
This instrument was formerly on the coin of Ireland
Harp
mercury bulb, scale
thermometer
In a medical setting, BMI stands for this
Body Mass Index
From Earth's point of view, planets sometimes appear to reverse direction because the Earth overtakes them in their orbits; the backward motion is called this--from the Latin for "walking backward"
retrograde
When some ones immune system overreacts to something harmless, you have something called this
An allergy
This was the first song to be preformed in outer space.
Happy Birthday
balk line spot, center pocket, 8 ball
pool table