Health & medicine
Across
- 2. a mark on the skin from a blow or fall
- 3. the disease you might have if your eyes are red and itchy
- 9. a strip of cloth or other material used to bind up a wound, sore, sprain, etc.
- 10. an injury involving breaking of the skin (usually involves blood)
- 13. high blood pressure
- 14. a chronic respiratory disease characterized by difficulty breathing
- 16. having a sensation of spinning
- 17. the movable or fixed place or part where two bones or elements of a skeleton join
- 19. what you have put on when you break a bone
- 20. a drug that induces partial or total loss of sensation (used for surgery)
- 23. the removal of tissue from a living body to test for the presence of disease
- 24. a foot doctor
- 25. characterized by redness, swelling, pain
- 26. the process of determining the nature of a disease
Down
- 1. the transfer of an organ from one person’s body to another’s
- 4. a doctor specializing in diseases of the heart
- 5. the paper you need from a doctor to get certain medicines
- 6. a shot given to prevent certain diseases
- 7. the throbbing of the arteries cause by the beating of the heart
- 8. a feeling of sleepiness, esp. after having taken a medication
- 11. what you put in your eyes if they are red and itchy
- 12. inflammation of the liver, caused by a virus or a toxin and characterized by jaundice, liver enlargement, and fever
- 15. a medical professional who specializes in manipulation of the spinal column (you go to this person if you have a serious back problem)
- 18. a red skin eruption
- 21. a concentrated liquid sugar solution that contains medication
- 22. acute or chronic inflammation of a joint