Medical Literacy Terms

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Across
  1. 2. term meaning ‘as needed’ or ‘when necessary’
  2. 3. a hormone produced by your heart, released in response to changes in pressure inside the heart that can be related to heart failure
  3. 5. The main sugar that the body makes from the food in the diet
  4. 6. a disease involving constriction of the airways and difficulty or discomfort in breathing
  5. 7. acting against or in contrary direction
  6. 9. depletion of water in the body
  7. 11. repeatedly elevated blood pressure exceeding 140 over 90 mmHg
  8. 15. commonly used to denote nothing to eat and drink overnight before scheduled surgery; meaning nothing by mouth
  9. 16. swelling caused by fluid in the body’s tissues
  10. 17. opposite of brand name
  11. 18. simultaneously having two chronic diseases or conditions in a patient
  12. 21. a method of therapeutic approach or a method of diagnosis
Down
  1. 1. a life-threatening condition in which the body is fighting a severe infection that has spread via the bloodstream
  2. 4. term relating to the lungs
  3. 8. an increase in the severity of a disease or its signs and symptoms
  4. 10. term relating to the kidneys
  5. 12. subjective evidence of disease or physical disturbance
  6. 13. a condition or factor that serves as a reason to withhold a certain medical treatment due to the harm that it would cause the patient
  7. 14. used to describe a yellowish tinge to the skin and the whites of the eye ball
  8. 19. coming and going at intervals
  9. 20. abbreviation; difficulty inhaling and exhaling