Across
- 2. the process of deciding how seriously ill or injured a person is, so that the most serious cases can be treated first
- 3. a case made of plaster that covers a broken bone and protects it
- 6. a medical condition in which the body cannot produce enough insulin to control the amount of sugar in the blood
- 10. a method of treating pain and illness using special thin needles that are pushed into the skin in particular parts of the body
- 12. a person who is trained to help women give birth to babies
- 13. to injure a joint in your body by suddenly twisting it
- 14. a room in a hospital used for medical operations
Down
- 1. an official piece of paper on which a doctor writes the type of medicine you should have
- 4. a piece of material that can be stuck to the skin to protect a small wound or cut
- 5. a doctor, especially one who is a specialist in general medicine and not surgery
- 6. a drug, especially a barbiturate, that relaxes you or makes you want to sleep
- 7. an illness that is usually mild but spreads easily from person to person
- 8. a short piece of thread, etc. that doctors use to sew the edges of a wound together
- 9. a sudden pain that you get when the muscles in a particular part of your body contract
- 11. the feeling that you have when you want to vomit, vaccine a substance that is put into the blood and that protects the body from a disease