Questions

Question 1

What microscopic vessel enables nutrients and oxygen to pass into the surrounding tissues?

Answer 1

Capillary

Question 2

What structure joins the two hemispheres of the brain?

Answer 2

Corpus Callosum

Question 3

What is irritable bowel syndrome also called?

Answer 3

Spastic colon

Question 4

The anterior root of the spinal cord is composed of what?

Answer 4

Motor fibers

Question 5

Destruction of old RBCs is a function of what?

Answer 5

Spleen

Question 6

In what type of biopsy is the entire lesion removed?

Answer 6

Excisional

Question 7

In medical terminology, a suffix usually indicates what?

Answer 7

Procedure, condition, disease, or part of speech

Question 8

Where is a plantar wart located?

Answer 8

Sole of the foot

Question 9

What is the body’s defense against injury, infection, or allergy?

Answer 9

Inflammation

Question 10

Two main divisions of the skeleton are the axial and what?

Answer 10

Appendicular

Question 11

At what site does hematopoesis occur?

Answer 11

Bone marrow

Question 12

Photosynthesis is a function of what cell?

Answer 12

Macrophage

Question 13

Excessive levels of what causes jaundice?

Answer 13

Bilirubin

Question 14

A pap smear is used primarily to screen and diagnose what?

Answer 14

Cervical cancer

Question 15

Waste filtered by the kidney includes what?

Answer 15

Nitrogenous products

Question 16

What is a gastric ulcer also called?

Answer 16

Peptic ulcer

Question 17

Structural abnormalities of the esophagus may be diagnosed by endoscopy of what?

Answer 17

Upper GI tract

Question 18

What is metamucil used to treat?

Answer 18

Constipation

Question 19

What medications help treat IBS?

Answer 19

Antidiarrheals

Question 20

Which glands produce sweat?

Answer 20

Sudoriferous

Question 21

What skin barrier protects from the skin cancer-causing UV radiation?

Answer 21

Melanin

Question 22

The parietal pleura glides smoothly over the visceral pleura because the plural cavity normally contains a small amount of what?

Answer 22

Lubricating fluids

Question 23

What layer of the eye contains the rods and cones?

Answer 23

Retina

Question 24

In what type of fracture does the bone injure another organ, such as a broken rib piercing a lung?

Answer 24

Complicated

Question 25

Swelling of the nasal sinuses associated with upper respiratory infections commonly causes what?

Answer 25

Anosmia

Question 26

What tissue type covers the surfaces of organs, lines cavities, and makes up the epidermis?

Answer 26

Epithelial

Question 27

What is skin also called?

Answer 27

Integument

Question 28

What is a hard protein found in the epidermis?

Answer 28

Keratin

Question 29

Plantar warts, or verracae, are caused by what?

Answer 29

Viruses

Question 30

Congenital and strangulated are associated with what surgical procedure?

Answer 30

Hernioplasty

Question 31

Typanoplasty helps treat what?

Answer 31

Perforated eardrum

Question 32

What sexually transmitted infection is called the "silent disease" because its symptoms are commonly absent or mild?

Answer 32

Clamydia

Question 33

Muscular dystrophy is characterized by gradual what?

Answer 33

Weakening of muscle tissue

Question 34

An endocrinologist would treat what disease?

Answer 34

Diabetes

Question 35

What bones form the three main divisions of the pelvis?

Answer 35

Ilium, ischium, pubis

Question 36

Diabetes mellitus is a disorder of what?

Answer 36

Pancreas

Question 37

Urine is expelled from the body through what?

Answer 37

Urethra

Question 38

What sexually transmitted infection produces symptoms more commonly in females than males?

Answer 38

Trichomonas

Question 39

What structure supports and connects the cells of the nervous system?

Answer 39

Neuroglia

Question 40

What are radioactive "seeds" associated with?

Answer 40

Brachytherapy

Question 41

Waste products are transported to kidneys via what?

Answer 41

Renal artery

Question 42

What protective mechanism blocks chemicals from entering brain tissue?

Answer 42

Blood-brain barrier

Question 43

What is a radiopharmaceutical also called?

Answer 43

Tracer

Question 44

Acute gastritis or peptic ulcer may cause what?

Answer 44

Hematemesis

Question 45

In the process of urine formation, filtration takes place where?

Answer 45

Renal corpuscule

Question 46

Lazy-eye syndrome is a type of strabismus called what?

Answer 46

Amblyopia