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What is Potassium?
This electrolyte is spared by some diuretics.
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What is a sinus headache?
This type of headache is caused by pressure in the spaces behind your cheekbones and nose.
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Who was Major Houlihan from MASH?
A surgical nurse, nicknamed "hot lips".
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Who was Florence Nightingale?
Perhaps the most famous, this nursing pioneer is known for her efforts to reform the British military health system.
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What are lymph nodes?
High concentrations of these nodes in the human body are located in the armpits and groin.
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What is a hernia?
A protrusion of an organ through the abdominal wall.
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What is Herpes Simplex?
Cold sores which may or may not be triggered by a cold are caused by this 2-word virus.
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Who was Carol Hathaway?
This ER nurse had an on-again, off-again romance with Dr. Doug Ross.
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Who was Clara Barton?
This nurse is known as the founder of the Red Cross.
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What is the epidermis?
This outer layer of the skin contains no blood vessels.
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What is goose bumps?
The common term for piloerection.
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What is GERD?
Chronic acid reflux is also known by this 4-letter acronym.
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Who was Nurse Ratched?
The battle-axe nurse at Salem State Hospital.
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Who was Margaret Sanger?
This nurse was the founder of the organization of what became Planned Parenthood.
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What is the mandible?
Of the 14 facial bones, it is the only movable one.
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What is AB+?
The universal recipient blood type.
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What is anesthesia?
The local variety is used on a limited area of the body; the general type involves the loss of consciousness.
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Who was Greg "Gaylord" Focker?
This male nurse had to "meet the parents".
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Who was Dorthea Dix?
This nurse who served as the Superintendent of Army Nurses in the Civil War became the driving force behind the first mental asylums in the United States.
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What is the gluteus maximus?
It's the two-word Latin name for those 2 big muscles you sit on.
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What is Cushing's syndrome?
This condition is indicated by a rounded moon face and caused by an increased adrenal production.
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What is Scurvy?
In 1753, Naval surgeon James Lind published a study showing that citrus fruit prevented this disease.
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Who was Nurse Betty?
Renee Zellweger believed she was this nurse when really she was a diner waitress.
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Who was Walt Whitman?
Few people realize that this famous poet was a volunteer nurse in the Civil War, leading to his "The Great Army of the Sick".
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What is the liver?
A baby is born with a six month supply of iron stored in this organ.
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