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