40 Medicine Trivia Questions for Kids
The easiest medicine questions in the game, picked for younger players. Every one comes with the answer and a short explanation of why it is right.
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Easy Medicine Questions and Answers
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Which specialist would you see about a problem with your feet?
A podiatrist
A podiatrist diagnoses and treats conditions of the foot, ankle and lower leg, from bunions and ingrown nails to the foot complications of diabetes. In Britain the same practitioners were long called chiropodists, and the two titles now mean the same thing.
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Which device can analyze rhythm and deliver a shock during cardiac arrest?
AED
An automated external defibrillator (AED) analyzes heart rhythm and can deliver an electrical shock when appropriate.
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What term describes a rapid, severe allergic reaction?
Anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis is a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction requiring emergency care.
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What does anemia commonly reduce the blood's ability to carry?
Oxygen
Anemia commonly reduces the blood’s oxygen-carrying capacity because of reduced hemoglobin or red blood cells.
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What blocks all sensation, not just pain, during many operations?
Anesthesia
Anesthesia is used to block or reduce sensation, especially pain, during medical procedures. General anesthesia can make a person unconscious, while local anesthesia numbs only a specific area.
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Which medicine is taken to relieve heartburn and indigestion?
Antacid
Antacids are medicines that neutralize stomach acid and can relieve heartburn or indigestion.
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What is the name for a foreign molecule that triggers an immune response and gets bound by antibodies?
Antigen
An antigen is anything the immune system reads as foreign and reacts to, most often a protein on the surface of a virus, bacterium or pollen grain. Rapid antigen tests work by using antibodies to catch exactly those surface proteins.
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Which medicine is commonly used to relieve allergy symptoms?
Antihistamine
Antihistamines block the effects of histamine and are commonly used for symptoms of allergies.
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Sneezing, itching and a runny nose in hay fever are mostly caused by one chemical the body releases. Which?
Histamine
Histamine is released by mast cells when the immune system overreacts to something harmless like pollen. It makes small blood vessels leak and nerve endings fire, producing the sneezing, itching and streaming eyes of hay fever, and antihistamine tablets work by blocking it at its receptors.
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In antimicrobial resistance, what is it that changes so the medicine stops working?
The germs develop changes
Resistance happens in the germ, not the patient. Bacteria and fungi pick up changes that let them survive a drug, then pass those changes on as they multiply, so the same medicine no longer clears the infection in anyone who catches that strain.
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Which disease involves recurring narrowing and inflammation of airways?
Asthma
Asthma causes episodes of airway inflammation and narrowing.
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What is a procedure that removes tissue for laboratory examination?
Biopsy
A biopsy removes cells or tissue for examination by a pathologist, often using microscopy or other tests.
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Which genes are strongly associated with inherited breast and ovarian cancer risk?
BRCA1 and BRCA2
Inherited harmful variants in BRCA1 or BRCA2 can increase breast and ovarian cancer risk.
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What eye condition clouds the natural lens?
Cataract
A cataract is clouding of the eye's normally clear lens.
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Which US federal agency tracks disease outbreaks and works to prevent them?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, headquartered in Atlanta, monitors outbreaks, runs the national disease surveillance system and issues US public health guidance.
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Cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. How does it usually reach people?
In water contaminated with sewage
Vibrio cholerae spreads through drinking water and food contaminated by infected faeces, which is why outbreaks follow floods, war and broken sanitation. John Snow proved the water link in 1854 by tracing a deadly Soho outbreak to a single public pump.
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Which procedure lets clinicians view the inside of the large intestine?
Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy uses a flexible camera to examine the colon and rectum.
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What does the abbreviation COPD stand for?
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
COPD is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a long-term lung condition, most often caused by smoking, in which the airways narrow and airflow out of the lungs is permanently limited. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis both sit under the term.
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What emergency procedure uses chest compressions to circulate blood?
CPR
The American Heart Association recommends a pace of 100 to 120 compressions per minute, about the tempo of the Bee Gees song Stayin Alive, which trainers sometimes use to help rescuers keep count.
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Dehydration means the body has lost too much what?
Fluid
Dehydration happens when the body loses more fluid than it takes in, leaving it without enough water to function normally. It can result from sweating, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, or simply not drinking enough.
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What treatment is used to remove waste from the blood after kidney failure?
Dialysis
Dialysis filters waste products and excess fluid out of the blood when the kidneys can no longer do it, either by pumping blood through a machine or by using the lining of the abdomen as the filter.
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What chromosomal condition is also called Down syndrome?
Trisomy 21
Down syndrome results from an extra copy of chromosome 21.
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What does an ECG record?
The heart's electrical activity
An electrocardiogram, also called an EKG, detects and records the electrical activity of the heart.
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What type of skin problem is eczema?
An inflammatory condition
The most common form, atopic dermatitis, often begins in infancy and is linked to a weakened skin barrier that lets moisture out and irritants in. It frequently runs alongside asthma and hay fever, a pattern doctors call the atopic march.
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What test records electrical activity in the brain?
EEG
An electroencephalogram records electrical activity in the brain.
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What should go on a small heat burn first?
Cool running water
Hold a minor burn under cool, not ice-cold, running water for about 20 minutes. Skin keeps cooking after the heat source is gone, and the water draws that heat back out and limits how deep the damage runs. Gel, dressings and ointment come afterwards, not instead.
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During a nosebleed, which direction should a person lean?
Forward
Leaning forward helps blood drain out rather than being swallowed; gentle pressure on the soft part of the nose is also commonly advised.
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Which profession did Florence Nightingale help professionalize?
Modern nursing
Florence Nightingale is widely associated with professionalizing modern nursing and improving hospital sanitation and organization.
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Which supplement helps prevent neural tube defects during pregnancy?
Folic acid
Adequate folic acid before and during early pregnancy helps prevent neural tube defects.
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Which eye disease can damage the optic nerve?
Glaucoma
Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can damage the optic nerve.
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What term describes population protection when enough people are immune?
Herd immunity
Herd immunity is resistance of a group to an infectious agent when a high proportion of its members are immune, reducing spread and protecting susceptible people.
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Which virus causes most cervical cancers?
Human papillomavirus
Persistent infection with high-risk human papillomavirus causes most cervical cancers.
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Ibuprofen belongs to which class of medicines?
NSAID
Ibuprofen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID.
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What type of infectious agent causes influenza?
Virus
Influenza, commonly called flu, is caused by influenza viruses.
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Which hormone allows glucose to pass from the blood into the body's cells?
Insulin
Beta cells in the pancreas release insulin after a meal, and muscle, fat and liver cells then take glucose out of the blood for fuel or storage. Glucagon, adrenaline and cortisol all push blood glucose the other way, up.
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In a hospital, what does ICU stand for?
Intensive care unit
An intensive care unit provides continuous monitoring and life support for the most seriously ill patients.
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Which organs filter wastes from the blood to form urine?
Kidneys
The kidneys filter blood, remove wastes and extra water, and produce urine while helping regulate fluid and mineral balance.
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Which cancer begins in blood-forming tissue?
Leukemia
Leukemia is a cancer of blood-forming tissues, including bone marrow.
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Which organs exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with the blood?
Lungs
In the lungs, oxygen moves into blood and carbon dioxide moves out at tiny air sacs called alveoli.
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Which parasite causes malaria?
Plasmodium
Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites transmitted by infected mosquitoes.
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