Health and Medicine

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Across
  1. 4. A state of complete physical, mental and social well being.
  2. 5. A protein on the surface of a cell. White blood cells are able to recognise pathogens because of their antigens.
  3. 7. When a person does not feel ill after an infection because their immune system attacks and destroys the pathogen quickly.
  4. 11. An estimate of how healthy a person’s weight is for their height.
  5. 12. Something that transfers things from one place to another.
  6. 14. The use of chemical compounds to defend against attack
  7. 15. An illness caused by an insufficient supply of an essential dietary requirement.
  8. 17. A substance containing dead or weakened pathogens (or parts of them), introduced into the body to make a person immune to that pathogen.
  9. 21. A mixture of different indicators giving a different colour for different points on the pH scale.
  10. 22. A condition in which someone is overweight for their height and has a BMI above 30.
Down
  1. 1. A type of white blood cell that produces antibodies.
  2. 2. A disease in which the heart or circulatory system does not function properly.
  3. 3. An organism (usually a microorganism) that causes disease.
  4. 4. Keeping things clean by removing or killing pathogens
  5. 6. the process of giving a vaccine to a person to protect them against disease.
  6. 8. Health problems caused by a diet that contains too little or too much of one or more particular nutrients.
  7. 9. Any disease that can be spread directly from one person to another.
  8. 10. An organism (usually a microorganism) that causes disease.
  9. 13. The way we live that can affect our bodies, such as what we eat, whether we smoke or do exercise.
  10. 16. A substance capable of causing cancer.
  11. 17. A particle that can infect cells and cause the cell to make copies of the virus
  12. 18. When many people over a large area are infected with the same pathogen at the same time.
  13. 19. A protein produced by lymphocytes. It attaches to a specific antigen on a microorganism and helps destroy or neutralise it.
  14. 20. Damage to the liver caused by drinking large amounts of alcohol over a long time.