Medicine and Health Trivia Questions and Answers

 A page full of medicine and health trivia questions and answers.

 

1. What is the medical term for inflammation or stiffness of the joints and muscles?
A: Rheumatism.

2. Which hormones are used in hormone-replacement therapy?
A: Estrogen and progesterone.

3. What does the acronym "IVF" mean?
A: In Vitro Fertilization.

4. Which bacterium causes toxic shock syndrome?
A: Staphylococcus aureus.

5. What causes Down's syndrome?
A: An extra chromosome.

6. AZT is used in the treatment of which disease?
A: AIDS.

7. Beriberi results from a lack of which vitamin?
A: Vitamin B1.

8. What is the technical name for chronic fatigue syndrome?
A: ME

9. Which organ is affected by emphysema?
A: The lung.

10. Which anti-malarial drug is extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree?
A: Quinine.

11. What is the Latin for " I will please" a word used to mean a sugar pill that has no active effect?
A: Placebo.

12. What is the term for a physical change resulting from disease or injury?
A: Lesion.

13. Who pioneered the use of antiseptics, which resulted in a dramatic reduction in the death rate during surgery?
A: Joseph Lister.

14. What has the technical name dyspepsia, a disorder causing abdominal pain?
A:  Indigestion.

15. What is the viral disease, named after a West African village, for which there is no known cure?
A: Lassa  Fever.

16. What is the common name for the infectious disease whose medical name is rubella?
A: Measles.

17. What is the pneumonia-like disease named after the people who caught it while attending an American Convention in Philadelphia in 1976?
A: Legionnaire's disease.

18, What is a more common name for Hansen's disease?
A: Leprosy.

19. Which disease is the single biggest cause of blindness worldwide?
A: Trachoma.

20. Which species of macaque monkey gave its name to the blood-group system of humans?
A: Rhesus monkey.

21. What do we call the swelling on the neck caused by an iodine deficiency or over-activity of the thyroid gland?
A: Goitre.

22. An embolism is a blockage. But where?
A: Blood vessel.

23. Osteoporosis affects which part of the body?
A: Skeleton.

24. Interferon defends the body from which kind of microbe attack?
A: Virus.

25. Which surgeon performed the world's first hear transplant in 1967?
A: Christian Barnard.

26. Barium sulphate is taken into the body by which method?
A: Swallowing.

27. Diabetes is caused by a malfunction of cells in which organ of the body?
A: Pancreas.

28. Beta-blockers affect which organ of the body?
A: Heart.

29. Multiple sclerosis is a disease of which system?
A: Nervous system.

30. Which phobia is the fear of heights?
A: Acrophobia.

31. What kind of drug prevents the spread of a bacterial infection through the body?
A: Antibiotic.

32. In a surgical operation which kind of doctor is responsible for putting the patient to sleep?
A: Anesthetist.

33. What is the maximum number of units of alcohol the government says is safe for a man to drink each week?
A: 28.

34: During a transfusion which tissue is given to the patient?
A:  Blood.

35. The blood problem anemia is sometimes cured by extra doses of which mineral?
A:  Iron.