Key Words Industrial and Modern

Question 1

Define anatomy

Answer 1

The structure of the body, eg, bones, nerves, muscles

Question 2

Define epidemic

Answer 2

A severe outbreak of an infectious disease

Question 3

Define industrial

Answer 3

Connected to industry and manufacturing

Question 4

Define Industrial Revolution

Answer 4

The period between 1750- 1900 when there were rapid changes in the way work and industry were organised

Question 5

Define Inoculation

Answer 5

A way of giving a patient a mild dose of an illness so that they body builds up immunity

Question 6

Define miasma

Answer 6

The theory that disease is caused by poisonous vapours in the air

Question 7

Define patent medicine

Answer 7

A mixture that has been created by one person or company sells under a particular brand name

Question 8

Define pharmacy

Answer 8

A business selling medical drugs; a chemist

Question 9

Define pharmaceutical industry

Answer 9

The business of manufacturing medicinal drugs prescribed by a doctor or sold by a chemist

Question 10

Define physiology

Answer 10

The way organs function within the body

Question 11

Define spontaneous generation

Answer 11

The idea that rubbish or decaying material creates microbes (germs)

Question 12

Define Vaccination

Answer 12

A safe way of stimulating the body’s immune system against a particular disease

Question 13

Define antibiotics

Answer 13

Drugs that stop infections caused by bacteria

Question 14

Define Consultant

Answer 14

A doctor specialising in a specific disease or part of the body; usually based in a hospital and seeing patients referred by a GP.

Question 15

Define crystallography

Answer 15

Using radiation to take a high power X ray photograph

Question 16

Define DNA

Answer 16

The abbreviation for deoxyribonucleic acid, which contains the genetic instructions for every cell in your body

Question 17

Define genetics

Answer 17

The study of genes and inherited characteristics

Question 18

Define Magic Bullet

Answer 18

A chemical drug that kills the microbes causing a specific disease without harming the rest of the body

Question 19

Define NHS

Answer 19

National Health Service set up in 1948 to give free health care to all

Question 20

Define radiotherapy

Answer 20

The use of radiation in medicine, often to attack cancer