BME Quiz #1

one of the body's most important tendons is the _______ tendon.

Achilles

Causation of events can be determined by

Aristotle's criteria; Hill's criteria

What is the earliest civilization that showed evidence of advanced healthcare technology?

Egyptian

Hospitals have always been the locus of high technology healthcare instruments and systems

False

The word ingenium has nothing to do with biomedical engineering

False

An early pioneer and healthcare delivery innovator who helped shape modern medicine as well as the practice of biomedical engineering was

Hippocrates

One of the fundamental principles of medicine, and later biomedical engineering was stated by

Hippocrates

Two people are studying the biology attending Type 2 diabetes in humans. Person A is interested in the related biological processes because new info about diabetes will help others with this disease. Person B is interested in the related biological processes because new info about diabetes will help lead to a new diabetes monitoring system. Which one of these people would most likely be a scientist?

Person A

Medical technology was held in abeyance for many years, finally to burst forth and advance during a period known as

Renaissance

Biomedical engineers must have sound understanding of science, particularly biology, so that they understand the basic mechanisms of how the human body works

True

You are reading post operative notes dictated quickly by a surgeon who used your company's intramedullary fracture fixation rod to treat a femur fracture. The instructions for the device specifically indicate that the device must be inserted into the femur in an antegrade direction. Upon reading the operative report, you observe that the surgeon instead the rod in a caudad direction. Did the surgeon follow the instructions you provided?

True

an example of an anticipatory mechanism is salivation

True

biomedical engineers develop quantitative objectives, design and conduct experiments, analyze data and draw conclusions regarding biological processes that have human healthcare relevance

True

biomedical engineers use scientific principles from biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics to design devices, materials, and systems used to diagnose or treat diseases, traumatic injuries, congenital disorders

True

Which of the following factors do not play a role in maximum muscle force contraction

anatomic cross section of muscle

considerations required of a biomedical engineer charged by his or her employer with developing a new total ankle prostheses might include

anatomy, biomaterials, orthopaedic practice manufacturing processes, regulatory status of the implant, tribology, biological response to wear debris, biomechanics of the joint implant, patient factors, cost of the implant

Engineering code of ethics

are formal statements of general principles and professional conduct; are required of all members of a particular profession; identify the responsibility of the individual member of that organization to the public, clients, employers, and the profession; are useful because they provide guidance for general professional thinking and behavior

tendons and ligaments have similar but not precisely identical structures. Tendons connect __________ while ligaments connect_________

bone to muscle, bone to bone

O.U. means

both eyes

The $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter crashed due to a failure of engineering

communications

human cortical bone is a composite material made of mineral and matrix. This structure enables human bone to have engineering properties that rival those of

concrete

Which engineering principles was key to solving the stair climbing problem in which of the forces generated by the quadriceps muscle force were sought by the calculation we made during class?

concurrent force model

Advantages of specificity in the written objectives for defining a biomechanics problem include all but the following

confuses nontechnical readers

The big three offenses in science and engineering are

data fabrication, data falsification, plagiarism

While engineering code of ethics provide _______ for professional behavior ,interpretation of these codes of ethics to _______ requires sound judgement by the engineer. This is one of the reasons formal engineering educational curricula includes teaching engineering ethics and engineering Codes of Ethics

general principles, specific circumstances

Examples of negative feedback mechanism include all of the following except:

hemorrhage and blood clotting

Science and engineering are founded upon principles summarily contained in two words. These words are

honesty, trust

in vivo means

in a living animal

in vitro means

in or under glass

when engineering build models of physiologic systems, they engage in an activity called encoding. This refers to

incorporating perturbation-related changes into the model

The fields of medicine and biomedical engineering each have their own subspecialty fields of endeavor. These subspecialty fields have arisen due primarily to

increases in knowledge

questioning the interpretation of engineering data

is healthy and encouraged

Your roommate tells you that the following are the core principles of physiology. Which of these statements are incorrect:

living tissues are the fundamental basis of life; heterogeneity is the central theme of physiology; physiologic controls systems employ negative and positive feedback as well as anticipatory and defense mechanisms

measure what is _____ and make _______ what is not so

measureable

Choose the best word that describes the field of biomedical engineering : biomedical engineering is a _______ field

multidisciplinary

the tensile mechanical behavior of normal physiologically moist human tendon is

nonlinear

the engineering performance of normal human muscle is ______ to that of an internal combustion engine because muscle produces its greatest force at ________

opposite, zero contraction velocity

instrumentation developed by Galileo was important because it enabled a fundamental _______ shift by enabling human health related processes to be _________

paradigm, measured

ad lib refers to a

patients wishes

All engineers including biomedical engineers use scientific principals and engineering skills to design materials, structures and systems while simultaneously considering

practically, cost, safety, regulations

The predominant and most important principle found in all engineering Codes of Ethics

protect the public

Engineering models of the human musculoskeletal system draw upon the six simple machines to man. Which of these simple machines were used in our biomechanics lecture to solve for joint reaction forces at the knee and the hip?

pulley, lever

_______ is an exceptionally useful tool for biomedical engineers because it allows for the explanation of the collective workings of an object of method by describing the individual constituents

reductionism

Which of the following can NOT be a basis for an engineering model of a biological system:

regulatory

Biomedical engineers do not

repair diagnostic medical instrumentation, routinely fit prostheses or orthotics to amputees, serve as clinical technicians, refurbish used medical devices

Cells the organizational unit of life have varying

shapes, sizes, compositions, functions

DOE means

shortness of breath

Which of the following properties incorrectly describe the properties of normal human articular cartilage

smooth surface

the root word ptysis means

spitting

Solutions to the joint reaction forces at the knee and hip, as worked during lecture, underestimated the real world joint reaction forces because of the

static approach used

s/p means

status post

The role of hospital in human healthcare has changed ________during the past 150 years

substantially

the root word rrhapy means

suture

Two important biomedical engineering invention of Galileo were the

thermoscope, pendulum

Which of the following were not among the components of a vector used in class to solve simple biomechanics problems

thickness of the line representing the vector

Which anatomical plane are coved by pie residue?

transverse, coronal