Statistics for Medicine and related terms with S

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A surgeon's knife	Scalpel	93%
Largest organ of the body	Skin	90%
Abnormal sideways curvature of the spine	Scoliosis	77%
Contains cranial and facial bones	Skull	72%
The male gamete	Sperm	72%
Mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally	Schizophrenia	65%
Also called shoulder blade	Scapula	61%
An operative stitch	Suture	56%
A bacterial STD	Syphilis	55%
A bone consisting of manubrium, body and xiphoid process	Sternum	51%
An eradicated virus that used to be contagious, disfiguring and often deadly	Smallpox	45%
Inside the vertebral column	Spinal cord	42%
Cancer of the connective tissue	Sarcoma	32%
Smallest bone in the human body	Stapes	32%
Qualitative genetic disorder of the RBC	Sickle cell anaemia	31%
A causative bacteria of pneumonia	Streptococcus pneumoniae	26%
Salivary glands located beneath the tongue	Sub-lingual	25%
Valves that prevent backflow of blood into ventricles of the heart	Semilunar valves	21%
Longest muscle in the human body	Sartorius	17%
A neutral amino acid	Serine	16%
Surgical removal of a part of, or the complete fallopian tube	Salpingectomy	15%
A G.I tract hormone secreted by the duodenum	Secretin	10%
Growth hormone	Somatotropin	10%
An enzyme in saliva	Salivary amylase	8%
SCID stands for	Severe Combined Immunodeficiency	8%
Blood fluke (a nematode)	Schistosoma haematobium	5%
A term to define DNA replication	Semi conservative	3%
Largest artery in the human body	Systemic aorta	3%
Blood coagulation factor X; also called thrombokinase	Stuart factor	2%
Intestinal juice	Succus entericus	1%