Health Problems
Across
- 5. to breathe noisily and with difficulty
- 7. lasting for a long time; difficult to cure
- 10. the state of being extremely tired or ill, either physically or mentally, because you have worked too hard
- 13. physical weakness, especially as a result of illness
- 14. to die from the effect of a disease or an injury
- 19. a feature or characteristic in a person’s body or behaviour that is not usual and may be harmful or cause illness or worry; the fact of having such a feature or characteristic
- 20. an uncomfortable feeling caused by having too much gas in the stomach
- 22. a sudden pain that you get when the muscles in a particular part of your body contract, usually caused by cold or too much exercise
- 26. a general feeling of being ill, unhappy or not satisfied, or that something is wrong in society, without being able to explain or identify what is wrong
- 27. the state of being addicted to something
- 28. an acute illness is one that has quickly become severe and dangerous
- 32. to shake slightly because you are cold, frightened, excited, etc.
- 33. a growth containing liquid that forms in or on a person’s or an animal’s body and may need to be removed
- 34. a medical condition of the chest that makes breathing difficult
- 36. a mental state where somebody becomes excited and not able to think or speak clearly, usually because of illness
- 37. a blue, brown or purple mark that appears on the skin after somebody has fallen, been hit, etc.
- 39. pain and difficulty or something that causes it
- 42. an open sore on the outside of the body or on the surface of an organ inside the body, where there is a break in the skin or membrane covering the organ that fails to heal
- 43. a person or animal that passes a disease to other people or animals, usually without showing any symptoms
- 45. to hit something, especially a part of the body, against something by accident
- 46. a painful place on a person’s skin, caused by lying in bed for a long time
- 49. the condition of being unable to get rid of waste material from the bowels easily
- 51. having to stay in bed all the time because you are sick, injured or old
- 52. to make something worse, especially a disease or problem
- 55. to make somebody ill
- 56. to make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse
- 58. a very small living thing that can cause infection and disease
- 59. attacked violently or repeatedly and injured
- 60. deeply unconscious
- 61. (especially of an old person) physically weak and thin
- 62. a slight pain
- 63. the headache and sick feeling that you have the day after drinking too much alcohol
Down
- 1. to make your skin or a part of your body painful
- 2. to break the surface of your skin by rubbing it against something rough
- 3. a mass of cells growing in or on a part of the body where they should not, usually causing medical problems
- 4. not dangerous or likely to cause death
- 6. to walk with difficulty, especially because your feet or legs hurt
- 8. to take too much of a drug at one time, so that it is dangerous
- 9. a very severe type of headache that often makes a person feel sick and have difficulty in seeing
- 11. the sudden start of something unpleasant, especially violence or a disease
- 12. an injury in which something inside the body breaks apart or bursts
- 15. to hit somebody on the head, making them become unconscious or confused for a short time
- 16. a serious disease in which growths of cells form in the body and kill normal body cell
- 17. the state of being too ill to do your work or take care of yourself
- 18. to spend time getting your health and strength back after an illness
- 21. a disease spread by rats that causes a high temperature, swellings on the body and usually death
- 23. an illness with a high temperature and often loss of consciousness, caused by being in too great a warmth for too long
- 24. ill and weak, especially over a long period or as a result of being old
- 25. feeling sick; wanting to vomit
- 29. extremely dangerous or harmful and quick to have an effect
- 30. pale, especially because of illness
- 31. a disease that causes painful white areas on the skin and can destroy nerves, muscles, etc.
- 35. to injure a joint in your body, especially your wrist or ankle, by suddenly twisting it
- 38. to burn yourself or part of your body with very hot liquid or steam
- 40. spreading very quickly and difficult to stop
- 41. a break in a bone or other hard material
- 44. to touch your skin or make a very small hole in it so that you feel a sharp pain
- 47. existing since or before birth
- 48. very fat, in a way that is not healthy
- 49. disease spreads by close contact between people
- 50. a serious problem
- 51. a swelling on the surface of the skin that is filled with liquid and is caused, for example, by rubbing or burning
- 53. to go back into a previous condition or into a worse state after making an improvement
- 54. a feeling of being extremely tired, usually because of hard work or exercise
- 57. the fact of being very thin and weak, usually because of illness or lack of food