Unit 2 History

What is the practice of drilling holes in the skull called?

• Bloodletting

• Acupuncture

• Trepanation

• Dissection

What is the practice of draining blood, believed to release illness, called?

• Acupuncture

• Bloodletting

• Trepanation

• Dissection

What is the process of pricking the skin with tiny needles called?

• Trepanation

• Bloodletting

• Acupuncture

• Dissection

What is the oath that doctors take called?

• Hippocratic Oath

• Trepanation

• Bloodletting

• Dissection

What disease killed most of Europe hundreds of years ago?

• Smallpox

• Bubonic plague

• Influenza

• Cholera

What is the analysis or cutting apart in order to examine called?

• Trepanation

• Bloodletting

• Dissection

• Acupuncture

What were early pharmacies where medicine was made and sold called?

• Apothecaries

• Hospitals

• Clinics

• Laboratories

What is something that is used to tie things tightly called?

• Ligatures

• Bifocals

• Sutures

• Bandages

What are eyeglasses called?

• Monocles

• Spectacles

• Bifocals

• Goggles

What is a microscopic organism, especially a bacterium, virus, or fungus, called?

• Microorganisms

• Pathogens

• Cells

• Germs