Medicine Crossword

1. Stitch that is used to join the lips or the edges of a wound.
2. One of the two organs that products urine and filtrates body toxins.
5. Loss of sensation and incapacity to move a part of the body caused by spinal or brain traumas or diseases of the nerves.
9. Used to inject fluids into the body and made of a plastic tube and a needle.
11. Greek physician who lived from 460 to 377 b.c and is considered as the father of medicine.
13. The … column is the series of vertebrae in our back; backbone.
15. Physician working with children and specialized in children’s illnesses and their treatments.
16. Penicillin is an…. that treats infectious diseases.
17. Important bleeding caused by the rupture of blood vessels.
19. A medical student that works at a hospital for a specific period in which he or she going to acquire experience in a particular field.

1. Instrument used to listen to the sounds made within the body, especially heartbeats.
3. Plain medical uniform worn by nurses and surgeons in the operating room which consists of a short-sleeve shirt and pants normally green or blue.
4. Injury of the ligaments of a joint, without fracture or dislocation, by overstraining them.
6. Swollen blood vessels full of blood that can cause great damages if broken.
7. Common medical treatment used in the past that consisted to let the blood flow by a vein.
8. Radiations used in radiography that penetrate tissues and allow to see bones
10. Hormone that diabetics need to inject that regulates the metabolism of glucose.
12. Abbreviation that designates the hospital area where are treated victims of traumas and other medical emergencies.
14. The process of determining the nature of a disease by close examination of the symptoms and circumstances.
18. Bursting or obstruction of a brain artery which the most common symptom is hemiplegia.