Across
- 4. Illness of the body or mind.
- 5. People who treat patients by pressing joints in places where two joints are connected, e.g, the spine, or backbone.
- 7. Small centre offering primary care, run by a single GP or a group of GP's.
- 8. Past the most difficult period.
- 9. Injured by turning it suddenly.
- 11. General expression for all of the services offered by hospitals, clinics, dentists, opticiants, etc.
- 15. People who treat patients by using needles at special points around the skin.
- 19. Measured amount of medicine that is relatively small.
- 20. Getting better.
- 23. Doctor who looks after people's general health.
- 24. Fully healthy again.
- 25. Persistent low-level pain.
- 26. Used for more long-term problems.
- 27. Without sleeping much.
- 28. Record of medical conditions a person has experienced.
- 30. Has caught, usually a non-serious illness.
- 35. We usually say come down, not go down with, when talking about ourselves.
- 38. Shaking.
- 40. Tax paid by most working adults which covers the costs of healthcare for everyone.
- 41. Approaches that differ from conventional western approaches.
- 43. With a high temperature/fever.
- 45. British name for the state-funded service that covers hospitals, clinics, dentists, etc. (often abbreviated to the NHS).
- 46. Fatty substance found in the body tissue and blood of all animals.
Down
- 1. Therapist who use aromatic oils and massage.
- 2. Choose private healthcare.
- 3. Sudden, burning pain.
- 6. Doctors who use tiny amounts of natural substances to treat an illness.
- 10. Slowed down or made difficult.
- 12. Pain and difficulty in moving your neck round.
- 13. Illness of the stomach or digestive passages.
- 14. Unwanted substance forms on the surface of the arteries.
- 16. Cause something to become blocked.
- 17. Charge of medication the doctor prescribes, which you pay at pharmacy.
- 18. Got better, recovered.
- 21. Gives pain caused by an injury.
- 22. A feeling that you are spinning round and can't balance.
- 24. Blocked;informal.
- 29. Tube that carries solid waste out of the body.
- 31. Beating with pain.
- 32. Sudden change in the blood supply to the brain causing loss of function of part of the body.
- 33. Centre which specialises in treating a particular condition or group of conditions.
- 34. Trying to get rid of.
- 36. Part of the body, e.g, stomach, liver.
- 37. Medical condition in which breathing becomes difficult because air passage have narrowed.
- 39. Getting better:used for more serious illnesses.
- 42. One that is severe and sudden in onset.
- 44. Shaking slightly, usually because of a fever.