Health and Healthcare 15

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Across
  1. 5. Medical explanation of an illness or condition
  2. 6. It is used to record the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time (ECG)
  3. 9. any of the rod-like structures found in all living cells, containing the chemical patterns that control what an animal or plant is like
  4. 10. a type of drug that stops you from feeling pain
  5. 11. a medical operation in which the flow of a person's blood is changed to avoid a diseased part of their heart
  6. 13. a chemical substance produced in animals and plants that controls things such as growth and sexual development
  7. 16. It is used to look inside the gastrointestinal tract, used mainly in surgery or by surgical consultants
  8. 17. the practice of keeping yourself and the things around you clean, in order to prevent illness and disease
  9. 19. the lower part of a person's or animal's body, containing the stomach, bowels, and other organs, or the end of an insect's body
  10. 22. the process of changing food into the substances that your body needs
  11. 24. It is used to correct arrhythmias of the heart or to start up a heart that is not beating
  12. 25. the long tube in your body that processes food and carries waste out of your body
  13. 26. a piece of tightly stretched skin inside your ear that vibrates when sound reaches it
  14. 28. (катетер) It is used to drain and collect urine directly from the bladder (primary use) also to act as a makeshift oxygen tube etc.
  15. 29. a chemical produced by your adrenal glands that makes your heart beat faster and gives you more energy when you are frightened, excited, or angry
  16. 30. a substance similar to bone that surrounds the joints (=places where two bones meet) in your body, or a piece of this substance
  17. 31. a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin
Down
  1. 1. a substance in red blood cells that combines with and carries oxygen around the body, and gives blood its red colour
  2. 2. A hard bandage that is wrapped around a broken bone to keep it in place
  3. 3. a temporary feeling that your sense of balance is not good and that you may fall down
  4. 4. He is considered to be the father of modern medicine
  5. 7. the scientific study of the structure of substances and the way they react with other substances
  6. 8. a condition that makes a person become sick or develop skin or breathing problems because they have eaten certain foods or been near certain substances
  7. 12. pain that you get in your stomach when your body has difficulty in digesting the food you have eaten
  8. 14. a disease that can be passed from one person or animal to another
  9. 15. the total amount of genetic information in the chromosomes of a living thing, including its genes and DNA
  10. 18. the organ in your throat that contains your vocal cords, which produce sounds
  11. 20. a type of hormone produced in the body that reduces pain, especially when you are injured or physically tired
  12. 21. a sudden painful tightening in a muscle, often after a lot of exercise, that limits movement
  13. 23. the parts of fruit, vegetables, and grains that your body cannot digest
  14. 25. a branch of biology that covers the study of immune systems in all organisms
  15. 27. the part of a heart that opens and closes to keep blood flowing in one direction through the chambers of the heart