PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL
LABORATORY SCIENCE QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|100%
CORRECT|GRADE A+
Medical Technology - ANSWER Also known as clinical laboratory science or laboratory medicine
Application of diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic medicine to monitor and improve the management
of health conditions
RA 5527 - ANSWER Known as a Philippine Medical Technology Act of 1969
An act requiring the registration of medical technologist defining their practice and for other purposes
examination of tissues, secretion and excretion of the human body and body fluids by various electronic,
chemical, microscopic and other medical laboratory procedures or techniques either manual or
automated
June 21, 1969 - ANSWER Date of approval of the RA 5527
Ebers Papyrus - ANSWER An Egyptian document, dated approximately 1500 B.C., containing more than
eight hundred prescriptions for common ailments and diseases
Oldest preserved Egyptian compilation of medical texts
110-page long scroll
20 meters long
Contains chapters on contraception, pregnancy, eye and skin problems, surgery, burns and intestinal
diseases and parasites
, Vivian Herrick - ANSWER She is a medical technologist who traced the beginning of medical technology
when intestinal parasites such as Taenia and Ascaris were first identified (1500 BCE).
Hippocrates II / Hippocrates of Kos - ANSWER Father of Medicine1
Mind and senses as diagnostic tools
He described four humors or body fluids in the human body
Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, Black Bile - ANSWER Four humors or body fluids
Urinalysis - ANSWER Oldest lab procedure
Uroscopy - ANSWER Medical examination of urine
Urine flask - ANSWER Symbol of medieval medicine
Greeks - ANSWER Poured urine on ground and when it attracted ants = patient diagnosed with diabetes
Hindu Doctors - ANSWER Made the ‟scientific observation" that the urine of certain individuals attracted
to ants - such urine have a sweetish taste.
Chinese - ANSWER Practiced immunization by inhaling powder made from smallpox scabs to develop
immunity to the disease
Romans - ANSWER Developed lab tools: forceps, scalpels, specula, and surgical needles
Indians - ANSWER Practiced toxicology (agad tantra)
LABORATORY SCIENCE QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|100%
CORRECT|GRADE A+
Medical Technology - ANSWER Also known as clinical laboratory science or laboratory medicine
Application of diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic medicine to monitor and improve the management
of health conditions
RA 5527 - ANSWER Known as a Philippine Medical Technology Act of 1969
An act requiring the registration of medical technologist defining their practice and for other purposes
examination of tissues, secretion and excretion of the human body and body fluids by various electronic,
chemical, microscopic and other medical laboratory procedures or techniques either manual or
automated
June 21, 1969 - ANSWER Date of approval of the RA 5527
Ebers Papyrus - ANSWER An Egyptian document, dated approximately 1500 B.C., containing more than
eight hundred prescriptions for common ailments and diseases
Oldest preserved Egyptian compilation of medical texts
110-page long scroll
20 meters long
Contains chapters on contraception, pregnancy, eye and skin problems, surgery, burns and intestinal
diseases and parasites
, Vivian Herrick - ANSWER She is a medical technologist who traced the beginning of medical technology
when intestinal parasites such as Taenia and Ascaris were first identified (1500 BCE).
Hippocrates II / Hippocrates of Kos - ANSWER Father of Medicine1
Mind and senses as diagnostic tools
He described four humors or body fluids in the human body
Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, Black Bile - ANSWER Four humors or body fluids
Urinalysis - ANSWER Oldest lab procedure
Uroscopy - ANSWER Medical examination of urine
Urine flask - ANSWER Symbol of medieval medicine
Greeks - ANSWER Poured urine on ground and when it attracted ants = patient diagnosed with diabetes
Hindu Doctors - ANSWER Made the ‟scientific observation" that the urine of certain individuals attracted
to ants - such urine have a sweetish taste.
Chinese - ANSWER Practiced immunization by inhaling powder made from smallpox scabs to develop
immunity to the disease
Romans - ANSWER Developed lab tools: forceps, scalpels, specula, and surgical needles
Indians - ANSWER Practiced toxicology (agad tantra)
