VOCABULARY BUILDER UNIT 4

5. medical care given to a patient for an illness or injury.
8. keep (something) from happening or arising.
10. disorder that produces specific signs or symptoms
12. thephysical structure of a person or an animal including the bones flesh and organs.
15. having the power to move heavy weights or perform other physically demanding tasks.
18. an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be provided a medicine or treatment.
19. a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system.
20. (of a part of one's body) painful or aching.

1. a sensation given by an object or material when touched.
2. a person trained to care for the sick or infirm especially in a hospital.
3. a person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment.
4. to become sound or healthy again.
6. feeling fear or anxiety; frightened.
7. the red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans carrying oxygen.
9. a damage to your body.
11. removal, repair, or readjustment of organs and tissues often involving cutting into the body.
13. an abnormally high body temperature.
14. a strip of material used to bind a wound or to protect an injured part of the body.
16. an arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place.
17. a small round mass of solid medicine to be swallowed whole.