MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS



Medical Technology - CORRECT ANSWER-It is also known as
'clinical laboratory science' or 'medical laboratory science'. This
is the application of principles of various science to evaluate a
certain health condition.

Clinical Laboratory Science or Medical Laboratory Science -
CORRECT ANSWER-Another name/s for Medical Technology

RA 5527 Section 2 - CORRECT ANSWER-This stated that
"Medical Technology is the examination by various chemical,
microscopic, bacteriologic, and other medical lab procedures
that will aid the physician in the diagnosis, study and treatment
of the disease, and promote of health."

The Medical Technology Act of 1969 - CORRECT ANSWER-
Another name for RA 5527

Vivian Hedrick - CORRECT ANSWER-She stated that intestinal
parasites (taenia and ascaris) and the three stages of
hookworm infections were found in Ebers Papyrus

Parasitology section of the clinical laboratory - CORRECT
ANSWER-The section where identification of intestinal
parasites is done today

Anne Fagelson - CORRECT ANSWER-She stated that Medical
Technology began in the 14th Century when an Italian
physician at the University of Bologna employed Alessandra

,Gilliani to perform certain tasks now under the domain of the
MT profession

Ruth Williams - CORRECT ANSWER-She wrote the book "An
Introduction to the Profession of Medical Technology", and
believed that science began in the Medieval Period (when
urinalysis was a fad)

Urinalysis - CORRECT ANSWER-This is the "oldest laboratory
science" and is the diagnosing of diseases through the
appearance of urine

Observing Urine - CORRECT ANSWER-The oldest known
practice on bodily fluids

Diabetes - CORRECT ANSWER-The diagnosis of ancient
physicians when they saw that ants were attracted to the urine

Ebers Papyrus - CORRECT ANSWER-The oldest preserved
Egyptian compilation of medical texts
- Contains chapters on contraception, pregnancy, eye and skin
problems, surgery, burns, and intestinal diseases and parasites

Hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWER-"Father of Medicine"
- The mind and senses are diagnostic tools
- Mentioned TB, malaria, mumps, anthrax, and purpuria
septicemia > childbed fever

4 Humors/Body Fluids - CORRECT ANSWER-blood, phlegm,
yellow bile, black bile

Blood - CORRECT ANSWER-The Fluid of Life

Purpuria septicemia - CORRECT ANSWER-childbed fever

Pope Innocent VII - CORRECT ANSWER-First unlucky
recipient of the blood draught

, William Harvey - CORRECT ANSWER-Discovered blood
circulation -> era of blood transfusion started

Richard Lower - CORRECT ANSWER-Animal to animal blood
transfusion

Jean-Baptiste Denis - CORRECT ANSWER-Animal to human
blood transfusion

James Blundell - CORRECT ANSWER-Human to human blood
transfusion

Karl Landsteiner - CORRECT ANSWER-Discovered ABO
blood group system

1492 - CORRECT ANSWER-The year the first blood
transfusion was ever recorded

Herman Fehling - CORRECT ANSWER-Performed the first
quantitative test for urine sugar

Jules Duboscq - CORRECT ANSWER-Developed the first
colorimeter based on Beer's Law

Beer Lambert's Law - CORRECT ANSWER-This law states
that the concentration of a substance is directly proportional to
the amount of light absorbed and inversely proportional to the
logarithm of the transmitted light

Aniline dyes - CORRECT ANSWER-Because of these,
bacterial staining and microscopic study on bacteria were made
possible -> led to the development of microbiology

Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
Alexander Fleming - CORRECT ANSWER-Pasteurization