Medical Inventions Quiz

Match the following medical inventions with the individuals who hatched the ideas!

1. Virginia Apgar
2. Earle Dickson
3. Berson and Yalow
4. Charles Richard Drew
5. Leonardo da Vinci and Ren� Descartes
6. Ida Henrietta Hyde
7. Madam Chien-Shiung Wu
8. Dean Kamen

1. Invented the idea of a blood bank and a system for long-term preservation of blood plasma
2. Prolific inventor of the portable kidney dialysis machine, intravascular stents, and the portable medical infusion pump
3. Invented the radioimmunoassay (RIA)
4. Invented the modern bandaid
5. Invented the microelectrode
6. A nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan project, and also discovered molecular changes that occur in hemoglobin with sickle-cell anemia
7. Scale used to determine the physical status of an infant at birth
8. Contact lenses

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