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
