Surgical, medical, and Medicine Trivia Questions and Answers with Questions About Surgery, chiropractic medicine, Physicians, the Human body, and Uncontrollable Winking to Name a Few!

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Medical trivia questions and answers about chiropractic medicine, surgery, disease, muscles, teeth, bones, and more.

Fun Trivia questions and answers - Medical Surgical Medicine Disease.

How many miles of blood vessels are there in the average human body?
A: About 62,000.

How many fat cells does the average adult have?
A: Between 40 and 50 billion.

What is the skin that peels off after a bad sunburn?
A: Blype.

What is a perfusionist's role in a hospital operating room?
A: Running the hear-lung machine during open-hear surgery. The machine keeps the patient's hear pumping while it removes carbon dioxide from the blood and adds oxygen to it.

There are two atria in the human body--where are they?
A: In the heart. They are the two upper chambers (auricles) that receive the blood from the veins and pump it into the two lower chambers (ventricles).

What do the letters CAT represent in CAT scan--the three dimensional composite image that can be taken of the body, brain or lungs?
A: Computerized axial tomography.

What system of healing did Canadian-born grocer Daniel David Palmer formally introduce in Davenport, Iowa, in September 1895?
A: Chiropractic medicine. Although new at the time, the principles upon which chiropractic medicine was based can be traced back to the earliest physicians--including Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.). Palmer created the name "chiropractic" by combining the Greek words for hand, cheir, and practical fo(or efficient). praktikos.

What does the acronym DSB mean to a hospital worker?
A: Drug-seeking behavior. The designation is used for a patient or wannabe patient who is complaining of a bogus ailment in an attempt to get narcotics.

Do identical twins have identical fingerprints?
A: No. No two sets of prints are alike, including those of identical twins.

What is the name of the protein--the most abundant in the human body--that holds our skin together?
A: Collagen.

How much saliva does the average human produce daily?
A: One quart.

How many muscles are there in the human ear?
A: Six.

What is the average lifespan of a red blood cell in the normal human body?
A: Four months.

How many bones are there in the human hand?
A: 27.

What is N2O--nitrous oxide--more commonly called?
A: Laughing gas.

What physical symptom is exhibited by those who suffer from blepharospasms?
A: Uncontrollable winking.

How many true vocal cords does a normal person have?
A: Two.  They are called true (or inferior) vocal cords and are involved in the production of sound.  We also have a pair of false (or superior) vocal cords that have no direct role in producing the voice.

Where on the human face is there a muscle known as the corrugator?
A: On the forehead. It's the muscle that contract the forehead into wrinkles and pulls the eyebrows together.

What part of the human body has the thinnest skin?
A: The eyelid--it's less than 1/100 inch thick.

How many bones are there in your big toe?
A: Fourteen, the same as in your other toes.

How many teeth are there in our first se to teeth--our baby teeth?
A: Twenty. Our second set has 32.

For what operation was Antonio de Egas Moniz of Portugal awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1949?
A: The now-discredited prefrontal lobotomy.

 

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