Across
- 1. A substance or composition with curative or preventive properties against disease
- 4. Being in pain, not feeling OK
- 5. Who carries a disease but does not have the symptoms of that disease
- 7. Low level of oxygen in blood
- 10. A person who does scientific research
- 11. A specialist in microbiology. This is Didier Raoult’s job.
- 14. An experiment that is done outside the living organism, usually in a test tube or in a petri dish
- 15. proportion in a group
- 16. A trial that compares the effectiveness of the test substance with that of a placebo or a known active substance: some of the participants take a placebo or other active substance and constitute a “control” group.
Down
- 2. A therapeutic trial in which participants are randomly assigned to two or more groups that receive different treatments.
- 3. at the end of a study
- 6. A measure of the acid-base state of a solution
- 8. A set of deaths occurring, in the same period and/or for the same disease
- 9. An invasion of the body by a foreign agent, such as bacteria or viruses, causing a medical condition
- 12. admission to hospital for a treatment
- 13. An infectious agent requiring a host, often a cell, whose constituents and metabolism trigger replication