Saturday, May 21, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #133 - Medical, Medicine, Health, Disease, Virus, Prostate, Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer's, Stroke and more!

Medical and Medicine trivia questions and answers.
  1. What's the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men?
     
  2. What does "CPR" stand for in medical emergencies?
     
  3. What, along with heart disease and cancer, accounts for 64
    percent of U.S. deaths?
     
  4. What virus did the World Health Organization say would infect
    40 million people by the year 2000?
     
  5. What do cosmetic surgeons remove 200,00 pounds of from
    Americans per year?
     
  6. What do doctors look at through an ophthalmoscope?
     
  7. What disease accounts for two of every three cases of dementia?
     
  8. What S-word is defined as "a lateral curvature of the spine"?
     
  9. What substance produced by the body is counteracted by
    antihistamine drugs?
     
  10. What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?
     
  11. What's most likely to occur when your diaphragm goes
    into spasms?
     
  12. What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known
    as?
     
  13. How many times a day must you take medication if your
    prescription reads "q.i.d."?
     
  14. What part of the eye may be obscured by cataracts?
     
  15. What arthritic disorder occurs due t increased uric acid the
    the blood?
     
  16. What hereditary blood defect is known as "the royal disease"?
     
  17. What organ is inflamed when one has encephalitis?
     
  18. Where does the embryo implant itself in a tubal pregnancy?
     
  19. How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will
    die in two days?
     
  20. What brain operation was tried first on a confused 63-yuar-old
    female at George Washington Hospital in 1956?
     
  21. What does the "myo" mean in myocardial?
     
  22. What was bovine spongiform encephalopathy called by the
    British press in 1996?
     
  23. What's the medical term for low blood sugar?
     
  24. What's the tranquilizer diazepam better known as?
     
  25. What's the common term for a cerebrovascular accident?
     
  26. What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were
    sorry they came into contact with?
     
  27. What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from
    opium and use as a pain reliever?
     
  28. What was the most widely prescribe antideppressant in
    the U.S. in the 1990s?
     
  29. What syndrome does SIDS mean to child care experts?
     
  30. What disease is the focus of oncology?
     
  31. Where is liver bile stopped before being released into the
    small intestine?
     
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 133 -
Medicine and Medical Trivia.


  1. Prostate cancer.
  2. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
  3. Stroke.
  4. HIV.
  5. Fat.
  6. The eye.
  7. Alzheimer's. 
  8. Scoliosis.
  9. Histamine.
  10. White blood cells, or leukocytes. 
  11. Hiccups.
  12. Athlete's foot. 
  13. Four.
  14. The lens.
  15. Gout.
  16. Hemophilia.
  17. The brain.
  18. A Fallopian tube.
  19. Nine.
  20. A lobotomy.
  21. Muscle. 
  22. Mad cow disease.
  23. Hypoglycemia.
  24. Valium.
  25. Stroke.
  26. Poison Ivy.
  27. Morphine.
  28. Prozac.
  29. Sudden infant death syndrome.
  30. Cancer.
  31. The gall bladder.