Dissections & Empirical Evidence - Midterm

We now know that blood becomes oxygenated from the lungs. Which of the following did Galen believe?

• The lungs were only to remove waste, not add anything to the blood

• The lungs distributed animal spirit to the organs from hollow nerves

• Blood mixed with pneuma from the air and gave blood vital spirit

• Air reached the right ventricle from the pulmonary arteries

What did Galen notice about the gladiators who survived neck injuries?

• None survived neck injuries and they all died

• They survived if their diaphragm was still active

• They survived if their liver was still active

• They survived if their spinal cord was injured above the second cervical vertebra

____ carry oxygenated blood away from the heart and ____ carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart

• arteries, veins

• veins, arteries

• arteries and veins, veins

• arteries and veins, arteries

Veins get ____ as they approach the heart

• smaller

• larger

• weaker

• stronger

Galen's description of the anatomy of the uterus came from which animal?

• ape

• goat

• dog

• pig

Which famous artist did dissections in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in the 1490s?

• Michelangelo

• Donatello

• Raphael

• Leonardo Da Vinci

Vesalius believed which of the following?

• Barber surgeons should complete dissections

• Lecturers should complete dissections themselves

• Students shouldn't be allowed to do dissections

• Dissections were morally wrong

Which humor was considered wet and cold?

• Yellow bile

• Black bile

• Phlegm

• Blood

Which procedure did Galen practice that was not again practiced for centuries?

• Cataract removal

• Lasik

• Lobotomy

• Bloodletting

Galen was the first to discover which of the following?

• Trachea generates voice

• Larynx generates voice

• Heart generates electricity

• Larynx generates voice and heart generates electricity