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A space medicine quiz

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Do you have what it takes to study space medicine? Some Jeopardy-style questions to test your knowledge.

1. While travelling in space, these can sometimes stiffen. 2. Space flight osteopenia is a term for the deteriorat­ion of these, caused by exposure to microgravi­ty in space. 3. Astronauts maintain muscle mass by doing this for two hours each day. 4. Orthostati­c hypotensio­n refers to low this, experience­d by some astronauts after they return to earth. 5. The backs of these can flatten after astronauts spend more than six months in space.

Answers: 1. What are blood vessels? 2. What are bones? 3. What is working out? 4. What is blood pressure? 5. What are eyeballs?

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