Medical Terms Crossword
Across
- 1. a woman that has been pregnant once
- 3. the study of patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations
- 4. a woman that has given birth to two or more children
- 5. produced by the body in response to invasion by a foreign organism or molecules
- 6. unicellular eukaryotic organisms, protists with animal-like behavior such as movement & motility
- 8. large domain or kingdom of prokaryotic microorganisms
- 11. requires a large incision, usually inpatient
- 15. multiple eggs fertilized by different sperm
- 17. administration of antigenic material to stimulate an individual's immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen
- 20. used to cut & cauterize
- 22. causes thickening of endometrium
- 23. in the scrapie form is an infectious agent
- 24. single fertilized egg that splits
Down
- 1. born before 37 weeks of gestation
- 2. connects baby to placenta
- 7. surgical instruments passed through several small incisions
- 9. microscope used to see small structures during surgery
- 10. polyphyletic group of eukaryotic parasites, worm-like organisms living in and feeding on living hosts
- 12. third leading cause of death in America
- 13. you are the donor and the recipient
- 14. use of robot operated by the surgeon
- 16. what the developing baby is called at 4 days old
- 18. a large Y shaped protein produced by B cells that is used by the immune system to identity and neutralize foreign objects such as bacteria and viruses
- 19. small infectious agent that replicates only inside living cells of other organisms
- 21. a substance foreign or toxic to the body