Exercise 5 - Radiology & Infectious diseases

Question 1

What is the name of the medical specialty concerned with the study of x-rays?

Answer 1

Radiology

Question 2

What is the name of the medical specialty that studies the charact. & use of radioactive substances in the diagnosis of disease?

Answer 2

nuclear medicine

Question 3

Name of the doctor who specialises in the practice of diagnostic radiology?

Answer 3

radiologist

Question 4

What is the term for emission of energy in the form of particles or rays coming from the interior of a substance?

Answer 4

radioactivity

Question 5

What is the term for the substance that gives off high energy particles or rays as it disintegrates?

Answer 5

radionuclide

Question 6

Term for procedures performs “in the test tube”?

Answer 6

in vitro

Question 7

Term for procedures performed “in the body”

Answer 7

in vivo

Question 8

Name of a substance capable of producing allergic response?

Answer 8

allergen

Question 9

Term for hypersensitivity caused by exposure to a particular allergen?

Answer 9

allergy

Question 10

Term for substance that is foreign to the body such as viruses, bacteria or toxins?

Answer 10

antigen

Question 11

Term for resistance to disease, either natural or acquired?

Answer 11

immunity

Question 12

Term for the process of introducing pathogenic organisms into a human being. A vaccine?

Answer 12

inoculation

Question 13

Thymus dependent lymphocytes responsible for cell-mediated immune systems?

Answer 13

T-lymphocytes (T-Cells)

Question 14

Mature into plasma cells & are concerned with the functional status of the humoral immune system?

Answer 14

B-lymphocytes (B-cells)