Q 01/05

Which ancient Greek physician is widely regarded as the 'Father of Medicine'?

A) Galen

B) Hippocrates

C) Avicenna

D) Paracelsus

Answer · why

B) Hippocrates

Hippocrates, born on the island of Kos around 460 BC, probably wrote few of the sixty or so medical works that carry his name, and perhaps not even th...

Q 02/05

Which part of the eye turns cloudy in a cataract?

A) The cornea

B) The lens

C) The retina

D) The iris

Answer · why

B) The lens

The lens clouds over when its proteins break down and clump together, usually with age; surgeons remove it and slip a clear artificial one into its pl...

Q 03/05

Which instrument did French physician René Laennec invent in 1816, at first a simple hollow tube of wood?

A) Stethoscope

B) Otoscope

C) Laryngoscope

D) Ophthalmoscope

Answer · why

A) Stethoscope

Stethoscope: Laennec was uneasy about pressing his ear to a young woman's chest, tried a rolled-up tube of paper instead, and found he could hear her ...

Q 04/05

What is the outermost layer of the human skin called?

A) Basement membrane

B) Dermis

C) Hypodermis

D) Epidermis

Answer · why

D) Epidermis

The epidermis has no blood supply of its own, and its surface is made of dead, keratin-filled cells that are shed all the time.

Q 05/05

Which organ, the largest inside the body, both detoxifies your blood and makes the bile that breaks down fat?

A) Kidney

B) Liver

C) Pancreas

D) Spleen

Answer · why

B) Liver

The liver can grow back after losing a large part of itself, which is why surgeons can transplant part of a living donor's liver and the donor's remai...