Across
- 2. something that you wear over part or all of your face in order to protect it
- 4. medical operations that involve cutting open a person’s body
- 6. a limited variety or amount of food that you eat for medical reasons or because you want to lose weight
- 8. an arrangement with a company in which you pay them regular amounts of money and they agree to pay the costs if you die or are ill
- 10. a person who does not eat meat or fish
- 11. the equipment and systems that keep places clean
- 13. a treatment or medicine to cure a disease or reduce pain that is not very serious
- 14. an instrument used for measuring the temperature of the air, a person’s body
- 15. connected with breathing
- 19. an illness that is caused by bacteria or a virus and that affects one part of the body
- 20. a substance that you take in order to cure an illness
Down
- 1. the feeling that you have when you want to vomit
- 3. clean and free of bacteria
- 5. an act of slowly putting a drug or other substance into a person’s vein
- 7. the process of heating a liquid to a particular temperature and then cooling it, in order to kill harmful bacteria
- 9. an illness that causes a part of the body to stop functioning correctly
- 12. the state of having a physical or mental condition that means that part of your body or brain does not work correctly
- 16. a plastic or glass tube with a long hollow needle that is used for putting drugs, etc. into a person’s body or for taking a small amount of blood from a person
- 17. a large number of cases of a particular disease or medical condition happening at the same time in a particular community
- 18. the process of becoming well again after an illness or injury