Health Vocab

2. rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm.
6. a medical practitioner qualified to diagnose and treat skin disorders.
8. a medical procedure involving repeated compression of a patient's chest, performed in an attempt to restore the blood circulation and breathing of a person who has suffered cardiac arrest.
9. A landfill site is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.
10. a layer containing a high concentration of ozone, which absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth from the sun.
11. A disorder in which nerve cell activity in the brain is disturbed, causing seizures.

1. Abdominal thrusts or the Heimlich maneuver is a first aid procedure used to treat upper airway obstructions (or choking) by foreign objects.
2. a strong heated container used for chemical reactions and other processes using high pressures and temperatures.
3. the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
4. a person highly skilled in a specific and restricted field.
5. a substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals.
6. A group of diseases that result in too much sugar in the blood (high blood glucose).
7. CPR without mouth-to-mouth breaths.