Sickness and Health

Question 1

Bacterial disease causing abdominal pain and dehydration

Answer 1

Cholera

Question 2

Gum doctor

Answer 2

Periodontist

Question 3

Inflamation - pain and swelling of the joints

Answer 3

Arthritis

Question 4

Eye lens defect

Answer 4

Astigmatism

Question 5

Scar tissue of the liver caused by alcoholim

Answer 5

Cirrhosis

Question 6

Disease of hardening of the artery walls

Answer 6

Arteriosclerosis

Question 7

Hepatitis is a disease of this organ

Answer 7

Liver

Question 8

Memory loss associated with the elderly

Answer 8

Alzheimer’s disease

Question 9

First organ to be transplanted - 1954

Answer 9

Kidney

Question 10

Common name for alopecia

Answer 10

Baldness

Question 11

Vitamin deficiency causing rickets

Answer 11

D

Question 12

Diver’s condition of nitrogen bubbles in the blood

Answer 12

Bends

Question 13

Hyperactive child disorder

Answer 13

Attention deficit hyperactive disororder

Question 14

Paralyzing food poisoning caused by a toxin

Answer 14

Botulism

Question 15

Common baby disease

Answer 15

Colic

Question 16

Enlargement of the thyroid gland by iodine deficiency

Answer 16

Goiter

Question 17

Damaged brain stem disease

Answer 17

Polio

Question 18

Disease of the gum

Answer 18

Gingivitis

Question 19

Clouding of the eye’s lens

Answer 19

Cataracts

Question 20

Steroid that relieves arthrits pain

Answer 20

Cortisone

Question 21

Encephalitis is a disease of this organ

Answer 21

Brain

Question 22

Low blood sugar

Answer 22

Hypoglycemia

Question 23

Common name for Daltonism

Answer 23

Color blindness

Question 24

Insulin deficiency disorder

Answer 24

Diabetes

Question 25

Reduced bone mass disease

Answer 25

Osteoporosis

Question 26

Disorder resulting in weakness of the facial muscles

Answer 26

Bell’s palsy

Question 27

Compound carried by high and low density lipoproteins

Answer 27

Cholesterol

Question 28

Most common cause of death in America

Answer 28

Heart disease

Question 29

Second most common cause of death in America

Answer 29

Cancer

Question 30

Equipment used to electrically restart the heart

Answer 30

Defibrillator

Question 31

Disease with raised fluid pressure on the eye

Answer 31

Glaucoma

Question 32

Hormone prescribed to promote fertility

Answer 32

Estrogen

Question 33

Food poisoning that effects gastrointestinal tract

Answer 33

Salmonella

Question 34

High blood pressure

Answer 34

Hypertension

Question 35

Disorder of the wrist

Answer 35

Carpal tunnel Syndrome

Question 36

The study of cancer

Answer 36

Oncology

Question 37

Common name for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Answer 37

Lou Gehrig’s Disease

Question 38

Common name for consumption

Answer 38

Tuberculosis

Question 39

Binge eating and purging disease

Answer 39

Bulimia

Question 40

Common virus that causes colds

Answer 40

Rhino virus

Question 41

Bulge in an artery wall

Answer 41

Aneurysm

Question 42

Plague that spread across 14th century Europe

Answer 42

Bubonic plague or the Black Death

Question 43

Tuberculocus is a disease of this organ

Answer 43

Lungs

Question 44

Yellowing of the skin caused by excessive bile

Answer 44

Jaundice

Question 45

Retardation caused by an extra chromosome

Answer 45

Down syndrome

Question 46

Sudden sleep attacks

Answer 46

Narcolepsy

Question 47

Chronic respiratory disease that includes spasms

Answer 47

Asthma

Question 48

Brief stopping of breathing during sleep

Answer 48

Sleep apnea

Question 49

Blockage of an artery by a bubble or blood clot

Answer 49

Embolism

Question 50

PTSD

Answer 50

Post traumatic stress disorder

Question 51

Mary Mallon’s disease (1904-15)

Answer 51

Typhoid

Question 52

Food aversion disorder

Answer 52

Anorexia Nervosa

Question 53

“Splitting of the mind” phenomenon

Answer 53

Schizophrenia

Question 54

When body temperature drops below 95 degrees

Answer 54

Hypothermia