MEDICAL - STARTLING FACTS

1. Identify- famous tragedy
SBBBHOP
BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY
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2. What is the connect?
MINAMATA DISEASE
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3. IDENTIFY THE DISEASE-TAPVC

4. These characters are from?
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
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5. WHAT DISEASE IT CAUSES- LYME
DISEASE

6. HUMAN ORGAN RELATED TO IT-STRAWBERRY
GALLBLADDER

7. IDENTIFY THE POISON?RICIN

8. He suffered from- Alzheimers

9. IDENTIFY-Drusus Julius
Caesar

10. IDENTIFY THE SYNDROME- STEVEN JOHNSON
SYNDROME

11. IDENTIFY THE SYNDROME?

12. Birth mark related – Port wine stain

13. Identify the condition- Ebstein anomaly

14. Famous cardiac surgeon-christian
barnard

15. Identify him- Michael jackson

16. What does the „O‟ of
blood group O stand
for?
Ohne

17. What does this Gram
stain show?
Gram-positive cocci

18. How many wells does a
standard microtitre plate
have?
96

19. Feeling a plastic
blood bag gave a
surgeon the idea for
what cosmetic
procedure?
Breast augmentation

20. What instrument was
used to produce this
image?
A transmission
electron microscope

21. 2.
After a study conducted it was
found that this deficiency is
found quite commonly among
orthodox Muslim women .
What deficiency is it?
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22. VITAMIN D deficiency
due to their
lack of exposure to sunlight owing to the
burkha and of course restricted life style.
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23. 3.
X is a movie starring father
and son bachchans revolving
around the life of a boy
suffering from a particular
syndrome Y and the reunion
of his mother and father.
Give me X & Y
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24. AMITABH as Auro
Progeria is a genetic disorder that accelerates the
aging process and causes the death of the person at
a young age. The average age of the person
suffering from Progeria is 13 years and the death
could be caused by age related diseases like heart
attack and stroke.
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25. 4.
EMERSON MOSER, Crayola‟s head
crayon maker only at the time of
his retirement revealed that he was
in fact ___, leaving the board
dumbstruck.
What was the condition he had hidden all
through his career?
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26. In his retirement and resignation
letter Emerson Moser revealed to
his board that he was blue–green
colorblind…
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27. IDENTIFY the person on the left.
“When I woke up on Sept. 28 1928 I
certainly didn’t expect to revolutionize all
medicine by discovering the world’s first __
But I suppose that’s exactly what I did.” 27

28. ALEXANDER FLEMMING
…World’s first antibiotic (penicillin)
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29. 9.
This condition is one of the most
common causes of death in
developing countries and also the
second most common cause of
infant death (the first being
malnutrition). The name of the
condition arises from a Greek word
meaning “flowing through” …..
What is the condition?
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30. Diarrhoea
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31. 2.
„___‟referred to a medical condition
thought in ancient Greece to be
particular to women and caused by
disturbances of the uterus-supposedly the movement of a
woman's uterus to various
locations within her body as it
became light and dry due to a lack
of bodily fluids.
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32. HYSTERIA
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33. Connect
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34. Guy De Maupassant ,
Winston Churchill,
Al Capone.
…. All three were
diagnosed with the STD
syphilis.
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35. 4.
Who was the famous
scientist who discovered
spermatozoa using his own
invention?
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36. Anton Von Leeuwenhoek,
Father of microscopy.
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37. The tubercle indicated on the ear Is
evidence of a vestigial feature
indicating common ancestry among
primates (An atavistic feature).
Name the tubercle.
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38. • DARWIN‟S TUBERCLE
It‟s description first published in
the opening pages of „the
descent of man‟ by Charles
Darwin.
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39. 6. SCHIZOPHRENIA
Commonly known as split
personality- The term Arises from
Greek : schizo meaning split and
phrenium meaning diaphragm –
why split diaphragm when the
condition has nothing to do with
the diaphragm and is purely
neurological ?
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40. 7.
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41. • The authors of all the
given novels Is/were
doctors.
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42. 9. X was one of the most famous
among the plague doctors. X was a
French apothecary who was
expelled from the university he
attempted to learn medicine in.. X
very famous for his prophecies
(then and even now) is … ?
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43. NOSTRADAMUS
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44. 13.
• The external surface of ____
has many elevations and
depressions/furrows and its
print is unique to every
individual as is the finger print.
The study of these prints is
known as cheiloscopy.
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45. Cheiloscopy : the study of
LIP PRINTS
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46. 15. Queen Cleopatra would use
the juice from the plant Atropa
belladona topically to appear
more alluring to the men she
wished to attract…
What exactly is the effect of the juice?
it was also used widely by women in
ancient Greece for the same purpose..
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47. The juice (atropine) when applied
to the eye caused – mydriasis
(pupil dilation) believed to give a
woman a more inviting, irresistible,
alluring appearance…
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48. 18. This disease was responsible
for the death of over 60,000 U.S.
troops in Africa and in the south
pacific during the second world
war. The name of the disease
arises from 2 Latin words meaning
“bad” and “air” as it was believed
that the disease spread through
contaminated air (a misnomer).
the disease?
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49. MALARIA
Arising from “malus”- bad/improper
and “aria” – air.
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50. CONNECT
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51. PABLO PICASSO, SYD BARRETT
AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ALL 3 SUFFERED FROM:
Schizophrenia
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52. 20. One of The most widely
practiced ancient methods of
suturing involved the use of
what and how...???
( still followed in some parts of Africa…)
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53. SOLDIER ANTS
2
1
3
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54. 21. ELEPHANTIASIS / FILARIASIS
can be diagnosed in the
laboratory by demonstration
from a blood sample which is to
be taken when?
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55. A blood sample is taken
only at night b/n 10 pm and
2 am as the worm is
believed to have nocturnal
tendencies and stays
lodged within the lymphatic
system during the day
time….
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