Chap1-2

Question 0

Achilles

Answer 0

Named for story of youth whose mother who dipped held him by heel and dipped him into the river Styx, tendon was not immersed

Question 1

Atlas

Answer 1

First cervical vertebra named for famous Greek Titan who was condemned to bear the heavens on his shoulders

Question 2

Venus

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Roman goddess of love

Venereal diseases are also named after her.

Question 3

Aphrodite

Answer 3

Greek goddess of love and beauty

Gave her name to the sex arousing drugs known as aphrodisiacs

Question 4

Aesculapius

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The son of Apollo revered as the first god of medicine. His staff which is encircled by a serpent signifies the art of healing and is used by the AMA as the symbol of medicine.

  (caduceus)

Question 5

Moses

Answer 5

First public health officer

Question 6

Hippocrates

Answer 6

Father of medicine

Question 7

Louis Pastuer

Answer 7

Father of bacteriology

Question 8

Joseph Lister

Answer 8

Father of sterile surgery

Question 9

Robert Koch

Answer 9

Cholera

Discovered the cause of cholera

Question 10

Paul Enrich

Answer 10

Chemotherapy
A pioneer in fields of bacteriology, immunology and especially chemotherapy also discovered cure for syphilis (formula 606)

Question 11

Florence Nightingale

Answer 11

Founder of nursing

Question 12

Clara Barton

Answer 12

Founder of the American red cross

Question 13

WHO

Answer 13

World health organization

Founded in 1948

Question 14

DHHS

Answer 14

Department of health and human services

Helps americans who are unable to help themselves

Question 15

CDC

Answer 15

Centers for disease control and prevention

Question 16

CLIA

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Clinical laboratory improvement act legislation

Legally governs quality in laboratory testing and reporting

Question 17

Who do we credit for the first anotomical description

Answer 17

Versalius

Question 18

What was Leeuwnboek able to view under his lens

Answer 18

Semen, blood, bacteria

Question 19

What did Lister use to make things sterile

Answer 19

Carbolic acid

Question 20

Galen

Answer 20

Prince of physicians

Question 21

Andreas Versalius

Answer 21

Father of modern anatomy

Question 22

Anton Van Leeuwnhoek

Answer 22

Grinder of lenses

Question 23

John Hunter

Answer 23

Founder of scientific surgery

Question 24

Edward Jenner

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First smallpox vaccination

Question 25

Ignatz Semmel Weiss

Answer 25

Aseptic Technique | Savior of mothers

Question 26

Elizabeth Blackwell

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First U.S. female doctor

Question 27

Margaret Sanger

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American leader in birth control

Question 28

AAMA

Answer 28

American association of medical assistants

Question 29

CMAA

Answer 29

California medical assistants association

Question 30

AMT

Answer 30

American medical technologists

Question 31

AAMT

Answer 31

American association for medical transcriptionists