Derogatory Medicine

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Your doctor compassionately informs you that your deformed, mentally retarded son has Hurler’s syndrome, and that he will likely not live to be a teenager.  Several hours later, the medical student assigned to your child enters the room. Much to your shock, the tactless student announces, "I am so sorry Mr. and Mrs. Smith that your son is a?" Bird-headed dwarf Gargoyle Cretin Mongoloid

2. What unprepossessing word is used to describe the obesity of a patient who is 100 or more pounds overweight? Morbid Unnatural Grotesque Vile

3. Merriam Webster defines a cretin as a "stupid, vulgar and insensitive person,” so you understandably feel insulted when your pediatrician, after examining your child, asks you if there are any other cretins in your family?  What has he asked you? Do any other children in the family have Hunter’s Syndrome? Are there any other children in your family with achondroplasia? Any other children in the family with juvenile hypothyroidism? Are there any other children in your family with stunted growth as a result of Human Growth Hormone deficiency?

4. Seckel Syndrome is better known as what? Mule-faced goonism Gargoylism Bird-headed dwarfism Leprechaunism

5. What derogatory term is used in medicine to describe usually non-viable fetuses with extremely rare, visually hideous, anatomically perplexing, birth defects? In cultures throughout the world, these fetuses/stillbirths are objects of both curiosity and fright. Many are the result of chromosomal abnormalities.   The Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia has a large collection of these preserved in formaldehyde. Answer: (One Word: The film about serial killer Aileen Wournos' life has this one word title)

6. The Stanford-Binet IQ has sub-classifications for mental deficiency based upon the intelligence quotient (IQ) obtained with the test. If your IQ on the Stanford Binet test is in the 20-49 range, what derogatory classification do you fall into? Moron Imbecile Idiot Simpleton

7. What euphemistic term is widely used derogatorily by doctors to suggest that there is no physical basis for your problems, or that you are lying about your symptoms? Gray-matter effect Extralobular Extratesticular Supratentorial

8. What 19th century physician named a disease that was derogatory to a whole race of people? John Langdon-Down Thomas Addison Harvey Cushing Burrill Crohn

9. This rare disorder, less commonly known as Donohue’s syndrome, is characterized by severe resistance to insulin, dwarfism, atrophy of fat tissue, and unusual craniofacial features. What is the name of this disorder? Bird-Headed Dwarfism Imbecilic Gnome Syndrome Leprechaunism Gargoylism

10. People who have an infiltration of their lymphatic system with worms have a condition that derogatorily compares them to what? Decaying Corpses Hippopotamuses Rotten Fish Elephants