Anatomy
This system of the body includes the heart, blood, and blood vessels. It is also responsible for circulating nutrients and oxygen.
What is the cardiovascular system?
This condition makes people experience uncontrollable laughter, often in situations where it's not appropriate.
What is the laughing disease?
This is the standardized test that most students must take before applying to medical school.
What is the MCAT?
The term "hyper-" means this in medical terminology.
What is "excessive" or "above normal"?
This healthcare professional is primarily responsible for diagnosing and treating a wide range of medical conditions and often serves as a primary care provider.
Who is a physician?
What is the femur?
This unusual ingredient was once used in the treatment of wounds during the Middle Ages.
What is moldy bread?
This course teaches medical students how drugs interact with the body and how to prescribe medications.
What is pharmacology?
The suffix "-algia" refers to this type of condition.
What is "pain"?
This career requires preparing and dispensing medications and providing advice on their safe use.
Who is a pharmacist?
This organ is the largest internal organ in the human body (produces bile and detoxifies chemicals)
What is the liver?
The phenomenon where people see colors when they hear music.
What is Synesthesia?
This postgraduate training program is required after medical school for physicians to specialize.
What is a residency?
The medical term "hypoglycemia" indicates this condition.
What is low blood sugar?
This specialist focuses on diagnosing and treating diseases of the heart and circulatory system.
Who is a cardiologist?
This type of connective tissue cushions and protects the ends of bones within joints.
What is cartilage?
This condition leads people to believe their body is shrinking, even though it is not.
What is Alice in Wonderland syndrome?
This branch of medicine, often taught in the second year of medical school, focuses on understanding disease mechanisms.
What is pathology?
The term "hemorrhage" is derived from Greek and refers to this condition,
What is bleeding?
This healthcare provider focuses on the care of elderly patients, often working in nursing homes or long-term care facilities.
Who is a geriatric nurse?
The name of the large muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity and aids in breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
This condition makes people eat things that aren't food, like dirt or paper.
What is Pica?
This standardized test is required for medical school graduates to obtain a license to practice medicine in the United States.
What is the USMLE?
The medical term for the inflammation of the lining of the heart is known as this.
What is pericarditis?
This role involves performing diagnostic tests and interpreting results to assist in the diagnosis of various conditions.
Who is a diagnostic medical sonographer?