____ eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive?
Answer: blue
99% of all life forms to exist on Earth are now?
Answer: extinct
A ____ acquires fingerprints at the age of three months?
Answer: fetus
A baby doctor is a ____?
Answer: pediatrician
A bone specialist is a(n) ____?
Answer: osteopath
A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which proves that humans once had ____?
Answer: tails
A loss of memory is known as ____?
Answer: amnesia
A mass of lymphoid tissue at the back of the throat?
Answer: adenoids
A medicine that hastens the emptying of the bowels is called a ____?
Answer: laxative
A non-cancerous tumor is said to be ____?
Answer: benign
A salt enema was given to children to rid them of ____?
Answer: Threadworm
A sore on the eyelid?
Answer: stye
A thread used in surgery to tie a bleeding blood vessel is called a(n) ____?
Answer: ligature
Animal or plant without the normal pigmentation of its species?
Answer: albino
Another name for a tendon?
Answer: sinew
Area accumulating pus within body tissue?
Answer: Abscess
As what is haemophilia also known?
Answer: royal disease
Babies are born without?
Answer: knee caps
Babies knee caps don't appear until the child reaches ____ years of age?
Answer: 2 - 6
Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid contains as many as ____ of them?
Answer: 50 million
Benthos are plants and animals living where?
Answer: water
Biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment?
Answer: ecosystem
Blonde beards grow ____ than darker beards?
Answer: faster
Blood can be artificially cleansed via what process?
Answer: dialysis
Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, ____ the least sensitive?
Answer: dark brown
Bone of the forearm?
Answer: radius
Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of ____ degrees Fahrenheit?
Answer: 105
Bursitis affects the knee, what is its common name?
Answer: housemaids knee
By what name is the tendon at the back of the ankle known?
Answer: the achilles
By what process is rock worn down by the weather?
Answer: erosion
By which other name is the shinbone known?
Answer: the tibia
Carditis, affects the ____?
Answer: heart
Caries is an extremely common disease, by which name is it better known?
Answer: tooth decay
Colourless constituent of blood?
Answer: plasma
Despite accounting for just one-fiftieth of body weight, the ____ burns as much as one-fifth of our daily caloric intake?
Answer: brain
Do the pupils in a person's eyes get larger or smaller in bright light?
Answer: smaller
Do your pores open or close when your body is hot?
Answer: open
Doctors often have this instrument around their neck?
Answer: stethoscope
Due to a lack of vitamin C, sailors used to contract this disease?
Answer: scurvy
Each body cell contains how many chromosomes?
Answer: 46
Each square inch of human skin contains seventy-two feet of what?
Answer: nerves
Eczema affects which part of the body?
Answer: skin
Encephalitis affects the ____?
Answer: brain
Every human has one of these on their tummies?
Answer: navel
Except for sex cells, all human cells contain 23 pairs of what?
Answer: chromosomes
Exercise the mind in the contemplation of spiritual matters?
Answer: meditate
Flat, round, brown spots on the skin that contain an excess of melanin, the human skin pigment?
Answer: freckles
Flattened, oblong organ that removes disease-producing organisms & worn-out red blood cells from the bloodstream?
Answer: spleen
Flattened, pear-shaped, hollow organ in the pelvis of the human female & most other mammals?
Answer: uterus
For which congenital disability was spastic a common name?
Answer: cerebral palsy
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to ____ in size?
Answer: shrink
Gastritis affects the ____?
Answer: stomach
Graves disease is caused by excessive production of what?
Answer: thyroid hormone
Hammer, anvil, and stirrup are parts of ____?
Answer: ear
Hard coating on the teeth?
Answer: enamel
He discovered the process of vaccination for prevention of smallpox?
Answer: edward jenner
Hepatitis affects the ____?
Answer: liver
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by which pharmaceutical company?
Answer: Bayer
How is german measles also known?
Answer: Rubella
How many blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second?
Answer: 15 million
How many bones are there in the human body?
Answer: 206
How many chambers does the human heart have?
Answer: four
How many large holes are in your head?
Answer: 7
How many litres of air is in an adult lung?
Answer: five
How many pints of blood does the average human have in his/her body?
Answer: twelve
How many teeth should a person have?
Answer: thirty two
How many times do your ribs move every year during breathing?
Answer: five million
Human ____ are as strong as concrete?
Answer: thighbones
Human ____ is estimated to grow at 0.00000001 miles per hour?
Answer: hair
Human adults breathe about ____ time a day?
Answer: 23,000
Human birth control pills also work on what animal?
Answer: gorilla
Human bones can withstand stresses of ____ thousand pounds per square inch?
Answer: 24
If body temperature was 86 degrees, how many years would a man man live?
Answer: two hundred
If locked in a completely sealed room, of what will you die before you suffocate?
Answer: carbon monoxide poisoning
In the early 20th century, rattlesnake venom was used to treat which illness?
Answer: epilepsy
In the field of psychiatry this term means self-love?
Answer: narcissism
In what body part does an osteopath specialise?
Answer: bones
In what organ of the body is insulin produced?
Answer: pancreas
In which organ are the hepatic arteries?
Answer: the liver
In which organ is a clear watery solution known as the "aqueous humor" found?
Answer: eye
In which organ is a pulmonary disease located?
Answer: lung
In which organ is Bile produced?
Answer: Liver
In which organ is your "hypothalamus" located?
Answer: brain
Infantile Paralysis is commonly known as ____?
Answer: polio
Infectious disease of horses, cattle, swine, & humans, also called lumpy jaw or big jaw?
Answer: actinomycosis
Infectious sexually transmitted disease of humans, spread by sexual contact, what primarily involves the mucous membranes of the urogenital tract?
Answer: gonorrhea
Intelligent people have more ____ and copper in their hair?
Answer: zinc
Intelligent people have more zinc and ____ in their hair?
Answer: copper
Joint between femur and tibia?
Answer: knee
Lack of blood is called?
Answer: anemia | anaemia
Lack of iron makes a person what?
Answer: anaemic
Lack of what is the cause of the deficiency disease 'kwashiorkor'?
Answer: protein
Lack of what makes albinos?
Answer: pigment
Lack of what vitamin causes pellagra?
Answer: b3
Lack of which chemical compound in the body is linked with Parkinsons disease?
Answer: dopamine
Like fingerprints, what other print is individual?
Answer: tongue prints
Loss of memory
Answer: amnesia
Maxillary palps, abdomen, and meta thorax are parts of an ____?
Answer: insect
Meningitis affects the ____?
Answer: brain
Myositis affects what?
Answer: muscle
Name the hardest substance in the human body?
Answer: enamel
Name the largest artery in the human body?
Answer: aorta
Name the largest gland in the human body?
Answer: liver
Name the largest gland in the human body?
Answer: the liver
North American Indians ate watercress to dissolve gravel and stones in the ____?
Answer: bladder
North American Indians ate watercress to dissolve what in the bladder?
Answer: gravel and stones
Of or concerned with the voice?
Answer: vocal
Of what does the typical man have 13,000?
Answer: whiskers
Of what is keratitis an inflammation?
Answer: cornea
On what part of the body is an 'LTK procedure' performed?
Answer: eyes
On what side should you sleep to improve digestion?
Answer: right
Organ system for changing food chemically for absorption by body tissues?
Answer: digestive system
Osteomyelitis affects the ____?
Answer: bones
Peritonitis, affects the ____?
Answer: abdomen
Photosynthesis is the process by which light converts carbon dioxide & water to sugar (glucose) & what substance?
Answer: oxygen
Portion of the central nervous system contained within the skull?
Answer: brain
Prosthetics deals with the making of ____?
Answer: artificial limbs
Received by the ear?
Answer: aural
Small stirrup shaped bone of the middle ear?
Answer: stapes
Sperm is the smallest single ____ in a mans body?
Answer: cell
Tarsus, metatarsus, and phalanges are parts of a(n) ____?
Answer: foot
The arteries & veins surrounding the brain stem are called what?
Answer: circle of Willis
The branch of medicine dealing with curing by operative procedures is ____?
Answer: surgery
The correct name for the voice box is the ____?
Answer: larynx
The first rubber gloves were used during surgery in 1890, 1910 or 1920?
Answer: 1890
The lack of this element in the diet is a cause of goitre?
Answer: iodine
The largest single organ of the human body is the ____?
Answer: skin
The medical name for the voice box is the ____?
Answer: larynx
The parasitic organism plasmodium, carried by an insect, transmits which disease?
Answer: malaria
The philtrum is a groove on the exterior of the body, where?
Answer: between the nose and lip
The small endocrine glands situated just above the kidneys?
Answer: adrenals
The small intestine is made up of the duodenum, the ileum and the ____?
Answer: jejunum
The small intestine is made up of the duodenum, the jejenum and the ____?
Answer: ileum
The small intestine is made up of the duodenum, the jejunum and the ____?
Answer: ileum
The small intestine is made up of the jejenum, the ileum and the ____?
Answer: duodenum
The smallpox vaccine was invented in 1763, 1784 or 1798?
Answer: 1798
The soft areas of the cartilage on a baby's head where the skull bones haven't joined is called what?
Answer: fontanel
The teeth used for biting or cutting are known as ____?
Answer: incisors
These animals were once used to bleed the sick?
Answer: leeches
These attach muscles to bones or cartilage?
Answer: tendon
These attach muscles to bones or cartilage?
Answer: tendons
This branch of medicine deals with old age and its diseases?
Answer: geriatrics
This complex substance makes up all living things?
Answer: protoplasm
This disease consists of a purposeless, continual growth of white blood cells?
Answer: leukemia
This finger like projection is attached to the large intestine?
Answer: appendix
This is known as "The Royal Disease"?
Answer: hemophilia
This large bean-shaped lymph gland can expand and contract as needed?
Answer: spleen
This membrane controls the amount of light entering the eye?
Answer: iris
This organ is a small pouch that stores bile?
Answer: gall bladder
This parasite lives in the intestines of man and animals?
Answer: tapeworm
This poisonous, oily liquid occurs in tobacco leaves?
Answer: nicotine
This protein makes the blood red in color?
Answer: Hemoglobin
This small gland attached to the brain exerts a control over growth?
Answer: pituitary
To what disability can keratitis lead?
Answer: blindness
To what does the adjective buccal refer?
Answer: cheek
Ulna, radius, and clavicle are types of ____?
Answer: bone
What appears when the sun activates melanocytes?
Answer: freckles
What are looser than normal in a double-jointed person?
Answer: ligaments
What are the pads of cartilage between spinal vertebrae commonly known?
Answer: discs
What body function is improved if you sleep on your right side?
Answer: digestion
What breed of dog has an inability to bark?
Answer: Basenji
What carries sensations from the tongue to the brain?
Answer: lingual nerve
What did North American Indians eat to dissolve gravel and stones in the bladder?
Answer: watercress
What disease is also known as "rubella"?
Answer: German measles
What do the auricular is muscles move?
Answer: ears
What do white blood cells produce to fight antigens?
Answer: antibodies
What does a sphygmomanometer measure?
Answer: blood pressure
What does encephalitus affect?
Answer: brain
What does hepatitis affect?
Answer: liver
What does HIV stand for?
Answer: human immunodeficiency virus
What does the body release that dilates small blood vessels and so causes a person to blush?
Answer: peptides
What does the lack of iodine in the diet cause?
Answer: goitre
What does the pancreas produce?
Answer: insulin
What does the term "carnivore" refer too?
Answer: meat eating animals
What element is lacking in a diet when goitre occurs?
Answer: iodine
What falls out with phalacrosis?
Answer: hair
What fleshy muscular organ is joined to the hyoid bone?
Answer: tongue
What gland secretes fluid that washes the eyes?
Answer: tear gland
What hormone is produced by the adrenal glands?
Answer: adrenaline
What instrument measures blood pressure?
Answer: sphygmomanometer
What is a Salamander?
Answer: Amphibian
What is a skin specialist called?
Answer: dermatologist
What is a the technical name for a heart attack?
Answer: myocardial infarct
What is about to be measured when a doctor or nurse straps a sphygmomanometer on you?
Answer: Blood pressure
What is activated for freckles to appear?
Answer: melanocytes
What is acute nasopharyngitis?
Answer: A cold
What is affected by cholecystitis?
Answer: gall bladder
What is affected by otitis?
Answer: the ear
What is an organism called that lives on or in a host animal?
Answer: parasite
What is another name for consumption?
Answer: tuberculosis
What is another name for tuberculosis?
Answer: consumption
What is by far the largest organ of the human body?
Answer: the skin
What is cerumen?
Answer: earwax
What is normal body temperature for an adult human (in degrees fahrenheit)?
Answer: 98.6
What is normal body temperature for an adult human?
Answer: 98f
What is the condition called when an internal organ protrudes through the wall of the cavity in which it is?
Answer: hernia
What is the axilla better known as?
Answer: armpit
What is the biggest disqualifying factor for prospective astronauts?
Answer: eyesight
What is the biological name for the shin bone?
Answer: tibia
What is the biological term for the voice box?
Answer: larynx
What is the common name for the disease parotitis?
Answer: mumps
What is the common name for the larynx?
Answer: voice box
What is the common name for the scapula?
Answer: shoulder blade
What is the common name for the sternum?
Answer: breastbone
What is the common name for the talus bone?
Answer: ankle bone
What is the common name for the tympanic membrane?
Answer: eardrum
What is the common name given to the third molar teeth?
Answer: wisdom teeth
What is the fastest breed of dog?
Answer: Greyhound
What is the fastest growing species of grass?
Answer: Bamboo
What is the hardest bone in the human body?
Answer: jawbone
What is the Latin name for the top set of vertebrae?
Answer: cervical
What is the medical term for cancer of the blood?
Answer: leukemia
What is the more common name for allergic rhinitis?
Answer: hay fever
What is the most common animal?
Answer: Sea worm
What is the name given to an examination of a body by dissection to determine cause of death?
Answer: autopsy
What is the name of the bone in the lower leg?
Answer: tibia
What is the name of the process used by green plants for obtaining food?
Answer: Photosynthesis
What is the popular name for decompression sickness?
Answer: the bends
What is the process of converting glucose to energy in cells called?
Answer: Respiration
What is the proper name for the kneecap?
Answer: the patella
What is the royal disease?
Answer: haemophilia
What is the scientific name for earwax?
Answer: cerumen
What is the Scientific name for the eardrum?
Answer: tympanic membrane
What is the second largest bone in the foot?
Answer: talus
What is the smallest bone in the human body?
Answer: stirrup bone
What is the study of insects called?
Answer: Entomology
What is the tibia more commonly known as?
Answer: shin bone
What is your hallux?
Answer: big toe
What kind of poisoning is known as plumbism?
Answer: lead
What muscle is joined by the lingual nerve to the brain?
Answer: tongue
What muscles move the ears?
Answer: auricularis
What name is given to a male bee?
Answer: Drone
What name is given to a young frog?
Answer: Tadpole
What name is given to animals which eat both plants and meat?
Answer: Omnivore
What name is given to animals which have pouches?
Answer: Marsupials
What name is given to animals which only eat meat?
Answer: Carnivore
What name is given to animals which only eat plants?
Answer: Herbivore
What name is given to opacity in the lens of the eye?
Answer: cataract
What name is given to the body 24 hour cycle of sleeping, waking?
Answer: circadian rhythm
What organ contains the islands of Langerhans?
Answer: the pancreas
What protein makes blood red?
Answer: Haemoglobin
What small region at end of medulla oblongata serves as 'bridge' to brain?
Answer: pons
What sort of body fat produces a dimpled effect on the skin?
Answer: cellulite
What toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head?
Answer: big toe
What was given to children to rid them of thread worm?
Answer: salt enema
What were foreman, longman, lecman and littleman old names for?
Answer: the fingers
What would you be doing if your soft palate and pharynx were vibrating because of an obstruction?
Answer: snoring
What's the strongest muscle in the human body?
Answer: the tongue
What's the transparent tissue that covers the iris and pupil of an eye called?
Answer: The Cornea
When a tumour is cancerous, what is it said to be?
Answer: malignant
When does the human uterus expand 500 times its normal size?
Answer: during pregnancy
Where are one quarter of the bones in the human body?
Answer: feet
Where are red blood cells formed?
Answer: in the bone marrow
Where are the deltoid muscles?
Answer: on the shoulder
Where do you find the medulla oblongata?
Answer: brain
Where in the body is the cochlea?
Answer: the inner ear
Where in the body is the tiniest human muscle?
Answer: ear
Where in the body would you find your olfactory lobes?
Answer: nose
Where is the carotid artery situated?
Answer: in the neck
Where is the coccyx?
Answer: base of the spine
Where is the pituitary gland?
Answer: under the brain
Where is the septum linguae?
Answer: tongue
Where is the temporal bone?
Answer: side of the skull
Where would you find carpal bones and tarsal bones respectively?
Answer: hands and feet
Where would you find lymphocytes and thrombocytes?
Answer: the blood
Which acid is produced in the muscles during exercise?
Answer: lactic acid
Which aperture allows light into the eye?
Answer: pupil
Which bird became extinct in 1861?
Answer: Dodo
Which breed of dog has a name derived from the old name for Greece?
Answer: Greyhound
Which disease is a virus infection and swelling of the parotid salivary glands?
Answer: mumps
Which disease is also known as "Hansen's Disease"?
Answer: leprosy
Which disease is spread by a body louse?
Answer: typhus
Which gland produces hormones to control the body metabolic rate?
Answer: thyroid
Which hormone regulates blood sugar level?
Answer: insulin
Which is the longest bone in the human body?
Answer: femur
Which is the most sensitive finger?
Answer: forefinger
Which joint is affected by a Potts fracture?
Answer: ankle
Which part of a cat's eye reflects light?
Answer: Tapetum
Which science studies animal behaviour in natural habitats?
Answer: Ethology
Which sense is stimulated by the reaction of the olfactory cells?
Answer: smell
Which sight defect is the opposite of hypermetropia?
Answer: myopia
Which sight problem occurs in men far more then in women?
Answer: Colour Blindness
Which species of Elephant has the largest ears?
Answer: African
Who ate watercress to dissolve gravel and stones in the bladder?
Answer: North American Indians
Who developed the vaccine for smallpox?
Answer: Edward Jenner
Who discovered Penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
Who first used antiseptics?
Answer: Joseph Lister
Who invented the smallpox vaccine?
Answer: Edward Jenner
Who was the first to use rubber gloves during surgery?
Answer: Dr. W. S. Halstead
With age, what organ shrinks faster in males than in females?
Answer: brain
With what body part is ontology involved?
Answer: ear
With which part of the body is dermatology concerned?
Answer: skin
You blink over ____ times a year?
Answer: 10,000,000
You can't kill yourself by holding your?
Answer: breath
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have?
Answer: 206
Your ____ holds your head to your shoulders?
Answer: neck
Your epiglottis serves this purpose?
Answer: prevents choking
Your heart beats over ____ times a day?
Answer: one hundred thousand
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your?
Answer: heart
Your nares are your ____?
Answer: nostrils
Your ribs move about ____ times a year, every time you breathe?
Answer: five million
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