Med Language
The ‘good’ kind of cholesterol.
What is HDL?
What is handshake?
These are the three phases of matter.
What is a solid, liquid, and gas?
The person/people responsible for discovering the double-helix structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This is the name of Loyola’s therapy dog.
Who/what is Ashlar?
This surgery involves removing the womb (uterus).
What is a hysterectomy?
This is what the MCAT stands for.
What is the Medical College Admissions Test?
The type of bond that holds amino acids together in a protein.
What are peptide bonds?
This disease, caused by a lack of Vitamin C in the body, was the scourge of sailors until the 18th century.
What is Scurvy?
This res hall contains the campus safety office in it.
The medical specialty concerned with diseases of the blood.
What is hematology?
These four classes count the most toward your science GPA.
What is Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Math?
These are the steps of mitosis.
What are Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase?
This DNA sequence capable of editing DNA sequences was discovered in 1987.
What is CRISPR-CAS9 editing?
This is the beach next to Santa Clara res hall.
What is Hartigan beach?
This surgery involves removing half of the brain.
What is a hemispherectomy?
These are the most common experiences asked about on primary applications (name 3).
What is research, volunteer work, medically-related experiences, extracurricular activities, employment, internship?
A test subject develops a response to a previously neutral stimulus by associating the stimulus with another stimulus that already elicited that response.
What is classical conditioning?
This sickness was spread by fleas through Afro-Eurasia from 1346-1353, killing 75 million to 200 million people.
What is the bubonic/black plague?
This is the oldest building on campus. (BONUS: Tell us what it was first used for).
What is Mundelein Center? (BONUS [no extra points though] It was a woman’s catholic college)
This is the common name for Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Silicosis
The website used to find information over medical school applications and the MCAT.
What is the AAMC?
The breakdown of glucose by enzymes, releasing energy and pyruvic acid.
What is glycolysis?
The person credited with the 1928 discovery of penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
The board member(s) who is/are graduating this year.
Who are Anna M and Anna A?