Across
- 1. An illness that affects people, animals or plants, for example one which is caused by bacteria or infection
- 5. The condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them
- 6. A harmless form of the germs that cause a particular disease
- 8. To look at a patient or do some tests in order to check how healthy the patient is
- 10. Being extremely fat
- 12. A serious disease in which cells in a person’s body increase rapidly in an uncontrolled way, producing abnormal growths
- 13. To examine people to make sure that they do not have a disease
- 14. To officially allow a patient to leave hospital
Down
- 2. To give a drug to a patient
- 3. To identify an illness or health problem
- 4. A disease caused by germs or bacteria
- 7. The condition of becoming ill or getting a rash when you eat, smell, or touch something that does not normally make people ill
- 9. Losing too much water from your body
- 11. A condition when a blood vessel in the brain bursts or becomes blocked, which may kill a person or make him unable to move one side of their body
- 15. To take a patient into hospital for treatment and to keep him there until he's well enough to go home
