Health

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Across
  1. 3. an establishment or hospital department where outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, especially of a specialist nature
  2. 9. a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh, and often occurring in epidemics
  3. 11. a person who is abnormally anxious about their health
  4. 14. a prolonged state of deep unconsciousness, caused especially by severe injury or illness
  5. 15. a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high
  6. 16. a damaging immune response by the body to a substance, especially a particular food, pollen, fur, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive
  7. 19. an arrangement by which a company or the state undertakes to provide a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment of a specified premium
  8. 20. a form of complementary medicine in which fine needles are inserted in the skin at specific points along what are considered to be lines of energy
  9. 22. the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats
  10. 23. an open sore on an external or internal surface of the body
  11. 24. an undesired effect of a drug or other type of treatment, such as surgery
Down
  1. 1. characterized by a sharp tingling or burning sensation
  2. 2. a smooth oily substance that is rubbed on the skin for medicinal purposes or as a cosmetic
  3. 4. the organized provision of medical care to individuals or a community
  4. 5. death that occurs before the average age of death in a certain population
  5. 6. having or involving a sensation of spinning around and losing one's balance
  6. 7. a form of complementary medicine based on the diagnosis and manipulative treatment of misalignments of the joints, especially those of the spinal column, which are believed to cause other disorders by affecting the nerves, muscles, and organs
  7. 8. feeling inclined to vomit
  8. 10. pain or discomfort in the stomach associated with difficulty in digesting food
  9. 12. a strip of woven material used to bind up a wound or to protect an injured part of the body
  10. 13. an injury appearing as an area of discoloured skin on the body, caused by a blow or impact rupturing underlying blood vessels
  11. 17. an infectious disease causing a mild fever and a rash of itchy inflamed pimples which turn to blisters and then loose scabs
  12. 18. difficult to breathe (about nose)
  13. 21. expel air from the lungs with a sudden sharp sound