Medical & other vocabulary
Across
- 7. a gap, ambiguity,inadequacy in the law
- 8. imposed confinement
- 11. another word for stretcher
- 12. putting the focus, stress on something
- 15. the peak, uppermost of something
- 18. fat, obese
- 19. old people; senior citizens
- 20. another word for relationship
- 22. the number reached like death
- 25. empathetic, compassionate
- 26. an intern doctor
- 28. painful; it hurts
- 30. the opposite of strength
- 32. frightening
- 33. very serious
- 34. the layman's term for uterus
- 35. it may lead to paralysis
- 36. improve; make better
- 37. bandage used to cover a wound
- 38. meaning problem or subject
- 40. a quality required in a carer
Down
- 1. result, consequence
- 2. it means to follow and learn
- 3. acceptance to follow a treatment
- 4. you excrete them when you sneeze or cough
- 5. it lasts nine months
- 6. she helps deliver the baby
- 9. a feeling of too much
- 10. the cost, the price of
- 13. it dulls the suffering
- 14. another word for pain
- 16. when you're grumpy
- 17. illness, disease
- 21. nice treatment towards people
- 23. it makes you hot, sweaty and poorly
- 24. when you have to endure an operation
- 27. a substance that has no therapeutic effect
- 28. a small part or quantity
- 29. synonym of personnel
- 31. sickness, disease
- 35. you manage to overcome something awful
- 39. they are sewn to heal a wound