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Quiz - test your knowledge of medical jargon and terminology
- Rheumatoid is most commonly followed by what word?
- The metatarsal bones are found in which part of the body?
- Conjunctivitis is also known by what colour eye?
- What name is given to the process by which the body converts food and drink into energy?
- Often seen on sports drink labels what term means a liquid has a similar concentration of sugar, minerals and salt as our blood and cells?
- What name is given to a procedure in which a tissue sample is taken for closer examination?
- Pneumoconioses is a disease of which part of the body?
- If you have dysphagia you have difficulty doing what?
- What is pyrexia?
- Veisalgia comes from a Norwegian word meaning "discomfort following overindulgence" but may also be used as a medical term for what?
- Diuretics are also called what sort of pills?
- Which medical term was first used in the 1950s and describes when the heart stops pumping due to an electrical malfunction?
- What word derived from the Latin meaning "injury" is any damage in the tissue of an organism?
- Onychocryptosis is the medical term for what?
- If arthralgia is joint pain, what is the medical term for muscle pain?
- What term originating from Latin meaning 'under cloak' is a form of specialised care for patients with serious illnesses?
- What is the alternative name for a stitch used to join the open parts of a wound?
- Caused by fluid in the body's tissues what does edema mean?
- What is the better known word for a contusion?
- If a disease is idiopathic, what does this mean?
- Cerumen is the medical term for what?
- What is the medical name for the outer layer of the skin?
- What sort of nodes are small glands that destroy and filter germs so they can't spread to other parts of the body?
- In genetics, what name is given the complete genetic information of an organism?
- Epistaxis is the medical term for a what?
- What is a thread-like structure made up of DNA and located inside the nucleus of a cell called?
- If an embulism is a blocked artery, what term is used for an artery that breaks?
- What word means the likely course or outcome of a medical condition?
- What do you do if you suffer from nocturnal enuresis?
- Vasovagal syncope is the most common cause of what?
Answers
- Arthritis
- The foot
- Pink eye
- Metabolism
- Isotonic
- Biopsy
- Lungs
- Swallowing
- A fever or a abnormally high temperature
- A hangover
- Water pills
- Cardiac arrest
- Lesion
- Ingrown toenails
- Myalgia
- Palliative
- Suture
- Swelling
- Bruise
- The cause is unknown
- Earwax
- Epidermis
- Lymph nodes
- Genome
- Nosebleed
- Chromosome
- Aneurysm
- Prognosis
- Wetting the bed
- Fainting (fainting when your body overreacts to a certain trigger such as the sight of blood)