Medical Jeopardy

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Medical Jeopardy

• Sterile Procedures

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• These type of bacteria are unable to grow in the
  presence of oxygen

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• What are anaerobic bacteria?

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• Lysol is an example of one

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• What is a disinfectant?

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• It is a machine that uses vibrations to remove
  bloody debris but does not disinfect or sterilize
  at all

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• What is an ultrasonic cleaner? (same as a jewelry
  cleaner)

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• It is the number of layers of wrap that every
  pack for the autoclave must have

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• What is two? (outer one is for the non sterile
  nurse to open for the sterile nurse to then open
  for the surgeon)

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• Tuberculosis and tetanus have this in common

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• What are bacilli?

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• The two modalities (physical forces) that are at
  work in the autoclave to kill microorganisms

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• What are high temperature and high pressure?

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• The time required to a proper surgical scrub

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• What is ten minutes? (for both the surgeons
  hands and the patients skin)

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• It is an inanimate surface that may carry
  microorganisms

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• What is a fomite?

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• It means a hospital infection generated by
  healthcare workers transmitted to patients

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• What is a nosocomial infection?

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• It is a type of bacterium that generally causes
  abscess formation and purulence (pus)
• (Pus is dead bacteria and the white blood cells
  that killed them)

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• What is staphylococcus?

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• It is an example of a disease caused by a
  spirochete

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• What is syphilis ( also cholera?)

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• It is a group of diseases generally carried by
  insects

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• What are Rickettsia? (Rocky Mountain Spotted
  Fever and typhus both carried by insects)

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• It is a dish commonly used to culture bacteria
  for identification

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• What is a Petri dish?

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• It is a machine used to keep bacteria growing
  overnight at body temperature

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• What is an incubator? (98.6 degree Fahrenheit and
  37 degrees on the Celsius (centigrade) scale
  i.e. normal human body temperature)

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• It is the name of the growth medium used in Petri
  dishes to grow bacteria

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• What is agar? (carbohydrate and some protein)

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• It is the seed-form of fungi that helps them
  survive inhospitable environments

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• What are spores? (even boiling water and Clorox
  cannot kill spores!)

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• It is the single most important method of
  breaking the chain of infection cycle

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• What is hand washing?

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• He is credited with creating the germ theory of
  disease

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• Who was Louis Pasteur?

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• He is credited with developing most of the
  culturing techniques we use in microbiology labs

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• Who was Robert Koch?

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• It is a chemical which literally means, against
  life

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• What is an anti-biotic? (in this case, the life
  is not yours but that of a bacterium)

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• It is a chemical which literally means against
  dirt

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• What is an anti-septic? (septicfilth, like a
  septic tank for poop)

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• The type of bacteria that only infects people
  whos resistance is low or have a gaping wound
  which could be infected by even non-pathogens

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• What is an opportunistic bacterium?
• Any bacteria, pathogenic or otherwise, can
  contaminate a wound if left untreated and this
  means they are opportunistic, not necessarily
  pathogenic by themselves

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• This disease is anaerobic and associated with
  puncture wounds only

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• What is tetanus?

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• Mr. Clean and Pine sol are examples of these

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• What are disinfectants?

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• It is an example of the most feared nosocomial
  infection

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• What is MRSA or methicillin resistant
  staphylococcus aureus? (Superbugs!)

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• The science that deals with the study and
  culturing organisms in order to understand
  disease better

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• What is microbiology(invented by Dr. Robert Koch)?

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• This type of chemical solution is used for cold
  sterilization?

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• What is a detergent? (ex. The blue stuff in the
  barbers jar for combs)

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• It is the place in the hospital where patients
  with airborne bacteria are kept

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• What is isolation?

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• The nose, the eyes, the rectum and skin are all
  potential parts of this link in the chain of
  infection

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• What are portals of entry?

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• What HIPAA stands for

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• What is Health Insurance Portability and
  Accountability Act? i.e. HIPAA

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• If mosquitos hatch their eggs in your pond water
  outside your house, which carry a rickettsia
  later to a host by a portal of entry, then the
  pond with the infected mosquito eggs becomes this
  in the chain of infection cycles

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• What is a reservoir?(anywhere bacteria can live
  until they infect us)
• Another reservoir could be an abscess hiding
  somewhere in your body to one day open up and
  spread all over you like in your urinary bladder,
  tooth decay site, etc.

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• It is the serous lining of the abdominal cavity

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• What is the peritoneum?

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• It means a bulging of ones abdominal wall

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• What is a hernia?

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• It means an interruption in the continuity of the
  skin

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• What is an ulcer?

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• The state in which Fort Stockton, Fort Davis and
  the McDonald Observatory are all found

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• Texas

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• Of the following, syphilis, gonorrhea and
  Chlamydia, the one that is most common STD in the
  U.S.

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• Chlamydia by far (common in college age kids) and
  far less of concern than syphilis and gonorrhea.
  Causes bad odors and is often confused with a
  yeast infection in girls that wont go away,
  because its a bacteria not a yeast different
  meds needed)

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• This type of microorganism is the only one that
  makes beer, wine, cheese and yoghurt

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• What is yeast?

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• Five routes for administering a medication

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• Orally, Intravenously, intramuscularly, trans
  dermally, sublingually, rectally, subcutaneously,
  by inhalation

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• The parasympathetic nervous system relies on this
  as its unique neurotransmitter

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• What is acetylcholine?

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• These two fibrils comprise the muscle fiber

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• What are actin and myosin?

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• The Nodes of Ranvier assure this rapid type of
  neural conduction

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• What is saltatory conduction?

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• The father of middle eastern medicine

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• Rhazi al Razi

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• The first craniotomy was probably done by him

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• Imhotep

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• Because of his work we have penicillin

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• Who was Sir Alexander Fleming ?

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• It means the inner portion of any organ

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• What is the medulla?

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• It is the type of cartilage found on the
  epiphyses of long bones for articulation

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• What is hyaline cartilage?

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• It is a type of fx associated with many small
  fragments of bone left behind

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• What is a comminuted fx?

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• One tab prn hs means this

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• Take one as needed at bedtime

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• Three elements of a contract

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• Offer, acceptance and consideration

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• This specialist does biopsies and autopsies

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• What is a pathologist?

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• To be DNR youll need this legal document

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• What is a living will?

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• Petit mal and grand mal are the two types of this

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• What are epileptic seizures?

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• Coordination, posture and balance are derived
  from this site in the brain

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• What is the cerebellum?

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• A strep or staph infection on the skin of a young
  child is commonly known as this

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• What is impetigo?

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• The feared side effect of delayed tx of children
  with streptococcal infections

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• What is rheumatic fever (may lead to heart valve
  damage and a murmur requiring heart sx)

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• Four signs of inflammation/infection

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• Erythema, hyperthermia, edema, dolor

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• The two cranial bones which anchor the teeth

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• What are the mandible and maxilla?

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• Two cranial bones with sinus

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• Frontal and maxillary

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• The kind of tooth 8 is

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• What is an incisor? Your two front teeth

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• The type of structures one finds smooth muscle in

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• What are body organs?

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• Three classes of all mental disorders

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• Neuroses (nervous disorders like bad habits)
• Psychoses (delusional disorders like
  schizophrenia)
• Personality disorders (schizoid, paranoid,
  compulsive types)

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• The organization that has set the guidelines for
  standard/universal precautions in hospitals and
  medical offices

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• What is the center for disease control? (CDC in
  Atlanta)? Best way to prevent the spread of
  Superbugs like MRSAs

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• The type of organism that cannot live outside a
  hosts body and alters its hosts DNA when it
  infects them

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• What is a virus?

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• The procedure for treating a boil or abscess
  surgically

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• What is an incision and drainage?

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• In order to determine which antibiotic to use on
  a patient to treat an infection, youll need to
  do this lab test first

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• What is a culture and sensitivity?
• The sensitivity tests the bacteriums
  vulnerability to our disks of antibiotic in the
  Petri dish)

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• The doctor who utilized the first antiseptic for
  surgeons prior to operating

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• Who was Dr. Joseph Lister?

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• He wrote The Circles Corner and The Caves of
  Norman Island

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• Dr. Ricken

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• She sang the song At Last at the inauguration
  of Obama to which he and the first lady danced
  the first dance together as the first couple

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• Beyonce

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• UConn won the NCAA championship. What Ivy League
  university is nearby and in Connecticut as well?

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• Yale U.

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• Their mascot is BOKO the Bobcat

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• Texas State University in San Marcos

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• The game played by the lead character in the hit
  film Slumdog Millionaire in which he won all his
  money

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• So you want to be a millionaire

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• Opening today in theatres, Kevin Costners new
  film involves what event that goes on nationally
  this month

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• The NFL draft

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• What Keanu Reaves and Barack Obama have in common

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• Both are Hawaiians

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• The minimum section of brain you would need to
  maintain vital signs even if you are in a coma
  although its a vegetative coma

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• What is the medulla oblongata?

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• The instrument you need to surgically implant a
  band around a patients esophagus in order to
  restrict their eating

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• What is a laparoscope? (Lapar is the Greek word
  for abdomen) so the procedure is a Lap-banding

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• Complete this run George, Paul, John and -------

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• Ringo (the Beatles)

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• The space between the surgeon and the patient
  during sterile surgery is called this

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• The golden area.

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• The definition of a calorie

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• The amount of heat from burning a food sample
  that can raise the temperature of one liter of
  water, one degree centigrade

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• The outer portion of an organ

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• The cortex

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• Three side effects of cortisone

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• Water retention, fat accumulation, less
  resistance to disease, hypertension, blanching of
  skin, elevated blood sugar

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• We give a dose of attenuated (weakened) germs to
  prevent disease its a procedure called this and
  who invented this procedure?

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• A vaccine and Louis Pasteur

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• What the origin of the word trivia is?

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• In old Rome, where three roads or Vias cross
  and folks exchanged gossip of trivial information
  with each other so its a Tri-via

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• The most common emetic

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• ipecac

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• Its a university located directly between Austin
  and San Antonio

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• Texas State U.

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• I hate flying airplanes The terminal sounds so
  final and deadly because the word terminal also
  means this

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• The END!