• Question: What is the medical term for the body’s natural painkillers?
  Answer: Endorphins.
• Question: What part of the eye gives it its color?
  Answer: Iris.
• Question: What organ in the human body can regenerate itself?
  Answer: Liver.
• Question: What connects muscles to bones?
  Answer: Tendons.
• Question: What is the smallest bone in the human body?
  Answer: Stapes (in the ear).
• Question: What gland produces insulin?
  Answer: Pancreas.
• Question: What is the medical term for the voice box?
  Answer: Larynx.
• Question: What is the body’s largest organ?
  Answer: Skin.
• Question: What is the medical term for the kneecap?
  Answer: Patella.
• Question: What do you call a doctor who specializes in the treatment of cancer?
  Answer: Oncologist.
• Question: What is the medical term for the shoulder blade?
  Answer: Scapula.
• Question: What part of the brain controls balance and coordination?
  Answer: Cerebellum.
• Question: What is the medical term for a bruise?
  Answer: Contusion.
• Question: What is the name of the largest artery in the human body?
  Answer: Aorta.
• Question: What is the medical term for the collarbone?
  Answer: Clavicle.
• Question: What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange occurs?
  Answer: Alveoli.
• Question: What is the medical term for the thigh bone?
  Answer: Femur.
• Question: What is the medical term for the voice box?
  Answer: Larynx.
• Question: What gland in the neck regulates metabolism?
  Answer: Thyroid.
• Question: What is the medical term for the eardrum?
  Answer: Tympanic membrane.

• What has keys but can’t open locks? (Answer: ECG)
• What is full of holes but still holds water? (Answer: Kidney)
• What has a spine but no bones? (Answer: Stethoscope)
• What has a neck but no head? (Answer: Syringe)
• What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? (Answer: Future, as in “prognosis”)
• What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? (Answer: Stamp, as in “traveling” or “spreading” diseases)
• What is as light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold it for much longer than a minute? (Answer: Breath)
• What has many ears but cannot hear? (Answer: Field of corn, as in “ear” of corn)
• What is at the end of a rainbow? (Answer: V, as in “Vitamin”)
• What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you? (Answer: Pill)
• What is it that if you have, you want to share me, and if you share, you do not have? (Answer: Secret)
• What belongs to you but is used more by others? (Answer: Name)
• What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves? (Answer: Fence, as in “immune response”)
• What has keys but can’t open any doors? (Answer: Piano, referring to “keynotes” or “music therapy”)
• What gets bigger when more is taken away? (Answer: Hole, as in “wound” or “cavity”)
• What has a heart that doesn’t beat? (Answer: Artichoke)
• What has teeth but cannot eat? (Answer: Comb)
• What is always coming but never arrives? (Answer: Tomorrow, as in “future treatments” or “medical breakthroughs”)
• What has a head, a tail, but no body? (Answer: Coin, as in “medical expenses”)
• What has many needles but cannot sew? (Answer: Pine tree)

Another Medical riddles

• What is full of holes but still holds water? (Answer: Sponge, as in “absorbent material for wounds”)
• What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? (Answer: Clock, as in “monitoring patient’s vital signs”)
• What has keys but can’t open locks? (Answer: Keyboard, as in “medical records”)
• What can be cracked, made, told, and played? (Answer: Joke, as in “laughter therapy”)
• What is both a weapon and a remedy? (Answer: Antibiotic, as in “fighting infections”)
• What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? (Answer: Future, as in “prognosis”)
• What is small, red, and whispering? (Answer: Blood cell, as in “red blood cell”)
• What has a head, a tail, but no body? (Answer: Coin, as in “medical expenses”)
• What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? (Answer: Stamp, as in “traveling” or “spreading” diseases)
• What is as light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold it for much longer than a minute? (Answer: Breath)
• What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you? (Answer: Pill)
• What belongs to you but is used more by others? (Answer: Name)
• What has teeth but cannot eat? (Answer: Comb)
• What can you catch but cannot throw? (Answer: Cold, as in “common cold”)
• What has many ears but cannot hear? (Answer: Cornfield, as in “ear” of corn)
• What can be seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month? (Answer: The letter “R”, as in “March” and “April”)
• What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, and yet never grows? (Answer: Mountain, as in “patient’s health journey”)
• What has a heart that doesn’t beat? (Answer: Artichoke)
• What can you break without touching it? (Answer: Promise)
• What is always coming but never arrives? (Answer: Tomorrow, as in “future treatments” or “medical breakthroughs”)

• What is a surgeon’s favorite kind of music?
• Why did the doctor carry a red pen?
• What did the X-ray say to the broken bone?
• What did one blood cell say to the other?
• Why did the skeleton go to the party alone?
• What do you call a fake noodle?
• Why did the nurse always carry a red marker?
• What do you call a doctor who fixes websites?
• Why was the microscope such a good friend?
• What did the thermometer say to the graduated cylinder?
• Why was the cell phone wearing glasses?
• What kind of tree does a dentist climb?
• Why did the doctor carry a dictionary?
• Why did the skeleton sit under the tree?
• What did the doctor say to the invisible man?
• Why did the nurse always bring a pencil to work?
• What did the doctor say to the computer?
• Why did the EKG blush?
• What did the dentist say to the golfer?
• Why did the MRI bring a camera?

Getting over with Medical riddles

• Why did the skeleton go to the doctor alone?
• What do you call a skeleton who won’t work?
• Why did the doctor always carry a stethoscope?
• What did the ECG machine say to the heart?
• Why did the nurse bring a ladder to work?
• What did the doctor say to the sore throat?
• Why did the virus go to school?
• What did the surgeon say to the broken bone?
• Why was the microscope always tired?
• What did the thermometer say to the fever?
• Why did the skeleton refuse to go to the party?
• What did the X-ray technician say to the skeleton?
• Why did the nurse bring a map to work?
• What did the dentist say to the tooth?
• Why did the MRI machine break up with the CT scanner?
• What did the doctor say to the patient with amnesia?
• Why did the blood cell fail the exam?
• What did the dentist say to the toothpaste?
• Why did the skeleton cross the road?
• What did the nurse say to the bandage?