Medical researcher

A blockage in a pulmonary artery is known as what?

Embolism

A lateral curve of the spine is known as what?

Scoliosis

Against which serious disease was the drug AZT used during a short period? 

HIV 

Around how many pounds of fat are surgically removed from Americans every year?

200000

Broca's area in the brain helps what to function?

Speech

Endephalitis is the term used for the inflammation of what organ?

Brain

Human growth hormone is produced by what gland?

Pituitary

In what year was polio declared eradicated in the United States?

1979

People with diabetes are unable to produce what adequately?

Insulin

Sperm and egg join to form what?

Zygote

The disease SARS is a serious form of... 

Pneumonia

The first cloned monkey was born January 13, 2000. What was its name?

Tetra

The name for a medical method where illnesses are cured or managed by manually opening the body of a human or an animal? 

Surgery

The Pink Ribbon movement collects donations to fight WHAT type of cancer? 

Breast

The removal of the gallbladder is known as what?

Cholecystectomy

The South African Doctor Christiaan Barnard carried out the world's first...

Heart transplant

Thoracic surgery is carried out on the... 

Chest

Tinea Pedis is better known as what?

Athlete's foot

What are DTs? 

Delirium Tremens

What are you suffering from if you have "fissures" in your teeth? 

Cracks

What condition involves blood not clotting properly?

Hemophilia

What did Alexander Fleming discover in 1928, which spurred on great advances in medicine? 

Penicillin

What does CPR stand for in English?

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

What does the "H" stand for in the abbreciation ADHD?

Hyperactivity

What does the "I"in AIDS stand for?

Immune

What does the word "bacillus" mean? 

Little stick

What eating disorder involves periods of binging and purging? 

Bulimia

What fraction of dementia cases are caused by Alzheimer's?

2/3

What is BSE the scientific term for? 

Mad Cow Disease

What is glaucoma?

Disease of the optic nerve

What is herpes zoster more commonly known as?

Shingles

What is presbyopia? 

Age-related diminished ability to focus

What is the fear of spiders called? 

Arachnophobia

What is the largest bone in the human body?

Femur

What is the name of a condition when a person's spine is curved or crooked? 

Scoliosis

What is the name of the disease which wiped out around 150 million people in Europe in the 14th century?

Black Death

What is the name of the first cervical vertebrae?

Atlas

What is the name of the medical discipline primarily concerned with the body's hormones? 

Endocrinology

What kind of disease is sepsis? 

Blood poisoning

What kind of illness is orthorexia? 

Eating disorder

What organ is affected by Hepatitis A? 

Liver

What's the most common type of cancer for males?

Prostate

When the body temperature and metabolism drop, it is called... 

Hypothermia

Where was the man that invented the first implantable pacemaker from?

Sweden

Which color is air in an X-ray photograph? 

Black

Which disease must one have had in order to be able to catch shingles? 

Chickenpox

Which drug is also known as "Vitamin V"? 

Viagra

Which neurotransmitter influences our sleep, sexual lust, aggression and impulse? 

Serotonin

Which of the senses is affected by ageusia? 

Taste

Which part of the body is being treated if the medicine Omeprazole has been administered? 

Stomach

Which part of the body is most affected in the case of diabetes? 

Pancreas

Which psychological disorder is associated with hypochondria? 

Munchausen syndrome

Which vitamin is lacking if we are suffering from scurvy? 

Vitamin C

Who discovered penicillin? 

Fleming

Who invented the stethoscope in 1819?

René Laennec

What is the study of teeth and their diseases called?

Odontology

Who discovered the anthrax and tuberculosis bacilli and received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1905?

Robert Koch

Which of the following is NOT hereditary?

Asperger's syndrome

Encephalitis is the term used for the inflammation of what organ?

Brain

What is the process called where people are frozen after death with the intention of being revived in the future?

Cryonics

What is narcolepsy?

A sleeping sickness

Which syndrome results from extra chromosome 21?

Down's syndrome

What kind of medicine is Valeriana?

Sleeping pills

What does an Orthoptist do?

Measures eye coordination

What is the primary role of an orthoptist?

Diagnoses and treats disorders of eye movement and coordination

What is angina pectoris?

Coronary arterial spasm