health vocab
Across
- 2. a strong heated container used for chemical reactions and other processes using high pressures and temperatures
- 3. a disease that affects your body's ability to produce or use insulin
- 6. CPR without mouth-to-mouth breaths
- 7. rain polluted by acid that has been released into the atmosphere
- 8. an emergency technique to help clear someone's airway
- 10. a medical practitioner qualified to diagnose and treat skin disorders
- 12. a layer in the earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth from the sun
- 13. a substance used for destroying insects or other organisms that are harmful to cultivated plants or to animals
Down
- 1. a medical procedure involving repeated compression of a patient's chest, performed in an attempt to restore the blood circulation and breathing of a person who has suffered cardiac arrest
- 4. someone who specializes in a particular occupation, practice, or field of study
- 5. when the Earth's atmosphere becomes thick with gases and substances which trap the sun's radiation, making the Earth warmer
- 9. a disorder in which nerve cell activity in the brain is disturbed, causing seizures
- 11. a place to dispose of waste material by burying it and covering it with soil