Quiz

How many bones are there in the foot?

What is a verruca?

Bad fitting footwear commonly cause…

Radiotherapy is the use of ionising radiation to treat which of the following conditions?

Radiotherapy is delvered by which of the following health professional?

When having radiotherapy the patient feels which of the following?

How many chromosomes does a human have?

What is the age of consent to be a bone marrow donor?

Why are cell therapy and gene therapy procedures carried out in a closed system?

What is histology?

What is formalin?

What is Haemotoxylin used for?

What qualification is required to become a pharmacy technician?

What are maggots used for in the treatment of medical conditions?

What is the term used for medicines that treat infections?

Name the virus that causes chicken pox and shingles

Can somebody catch shingles from a person with chicken pox

Can a person get chicken pox more than once in their lifetime

When modelling how infectious diseases spread, what does ‘R’ represent?

Which of the following is a type of vaccination?

Who discovered a vaccine when observing the correlation between smallpox and cowpox?

Which parasitic worm has to be pulled out from the infected person’s skin on a stick?

In 2012 which human blood parasite disease is estimated to have killed 1300 children every day?

Toxoplasma is a parasite commonly transmitted to humans from which household pet?

In urine analysis, what does the term ‘specific gravity’ tell us about someone’s health?

What are two medical terms used for what we would call poo?

What disease is a biochemist particularly looking for when they measure the glucose level of someone’s blood?

What heart valve lies between the left atrium and the left ventricle?

What does the colour flow signify on an echocardiogram

Which heart chamber is the strongest and most powerful that supplies oxgenated blood to the rest of the body?

What does NHSBT stand for?

What does RBC stand for?

Where can you go online to find out about being a blood donor?

How many samples do biomedical scientits in the UK handle every year?

Haematologists diagnose diseases of the…

Microbiologists diagnose illnesses by studying…

Name a type of ionising radiation?

What are gamma-rays?

Do Ultrasound scanners use ionising radiation?

Which of these is considered to be a simple sugar?

Which of these drinks has the lowest amount of sugar?

How many teaspoons of sugar does the average UK person eat every week?

When HIV infection progresses to AIDS what part of the immune system becomes dramatically reduced?

Advances in technology and techniques biomedical science is constantly evolving and moving into new areas including:

What precious metal is commonly used to make the housing for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs)?

What irregular heart rhythm is commonly treated by an ablation procedure?

In beats per minute (bpm) What is the normal range for resting pulse rate in adults?

What is microbiology the study of?

Are all bacteria, yeasts, moulds and viruses bad for you?

What are bacteria grown on in the laboratory?

How many muscles do you have in your fingers?

How many times will your heart beat today?

In which human body joint do you find the rotator cuff tendon?

What is a visioneer?

Who wrote Frankenstein?

What can a robotic exoskeleton be used for?