Health and Healthcare

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Across
  1. 2. the lower part of your cheek, especially if the skin hangs down and covers your jaw
  2. 5. that’s what you do when you cannot breathe because there is not enough air or because something is blocking your throat
  3. 7. a medical condition in which blood is suddenly blocked and cannot reach the brain, or in which a blood vessel in the brain breaks, often causing a loss of the ability to speak or to move particular muscles
  4. 13. a brownish or reddish mark that is on a person's skin from when they are born
  5. 15. your skull
  6. 19. the area at the back of your mouth and inside your neck
  7. 21. a sudden painful tightening in a muscle, often after a lot of exercise, that limits movement
  8. 23. a disease that can be passed from one person or animal to another
  9. 24. a doctor who is an expert in illnesses of the eyes and who can perform operations on people’s eyes
  10. 26. one of the two organs in your body that clean your blood and remove waste
  11. 27. a substance similar to bone that surrounds the joints (=places where two bones meet) in your body, or a piece of this substance
Down
  1. 1. a tool that you use for picking up or removing very small objects. It consists of two narrow pieces of metal joined at one end
  2. 3. the bone at the front of your knee. The usual word for this is kneecap
  3. 4. someone whose job is to help people with physical, mental, or emotional problems, using a particular type of therapy
  4. 6. to cause a mark to appear on someone’s body by hitting or knocking it
  5. 8. the bone at the front of your knee
  6. 9. the firm pink flesh in your mouth that your teeth are fixed into
  7. 10. one of the two bones on the sides of your upper back. A less technical name for this is shoulder blade
  8. 11. the lower part of your face that includes your chin and your bottom teeth
  9. 12. a doctor
  10. 14. one of the parts of your body that connects a muscle to a bone
  11. 16. a doctor who is trained to perform operations that involve cutting open someone’s body, usually in a hospital
  12. 17. to feel weak, as if you are about to become unconscious
  13. 18. the middle part of the human body that is usually narrower than the parts above and below
  14. 20. breathing
  15. 22. a small sharp knife used by a doctor for doing an operation
  16. 25. one of the hard white objects inside your mouth that you use for biting and for chewing food