Medicine Through Time KeyWords Part 4
Across
- 6. the investigation of genes and how they can be used to change how the body works
- 7. surgery using the modern techniques, including computers, new skills and new drugs
- 9. part of the nucleus of a cell that determines how our bodies look and work. Genes are passed from parents to children
- 10. a medical term for bleeding
- 11. a microorganism that causes disease
- 12. the process of giving protection from disease through the body's own immune system
Down
- 1. the principles by which doctors work, for the best health of the patient and to do no harm, named after Hippocrates who wrote it
- 2. the infection of dead tissue causing, in some case of gas gangrene, foul smelling gas
- 3. protected against a disease
- 4. protection from disease through the body's own defences or immune system
- 5. the people controlling NHS health care in the regions
- 6. the theory that germs cause disease, often by infection through the air
- 8. a sexually transmitted disease that can be treated with antibiotics