Across
- 3. noun [ C ] a small amount of blood or urine used for testing; adjective [ before noun ] used to refer to a container for things collected for medical or scientific use.
- 4. noun [ C ] a small knife with two cutting edges and a sharp point that a doctor uses when cutting the skin
- 5. verb [ T ] medical to add oxygen to something.
- 7. noun [ U ] the process of quickly examining patients who are taken to a hospital in order to decide which ones are the most seriously ill and must be treated first; verb [ I or T ] to quickly examine patients who are taken to a hospital in order to decide which ones are the most seriously ill and must be treated first
- 12. noun [ C ] specialized a stitch used to sew up a cut in a person's body
- 13. noun [ U ] specialized death of cell tissues
- 16. verb [ T ] specialized to reduce pain without curing its cause.
- 18. noun [ U ] the systems for taking dirty water and other waste products away from buildings in order to protect people's health
- 21. noun [ C ] one of the thick tubes that carry blood from the heart to other parts of the body
- 22. noun [ C ] any small organism, such as a virus or a bacterium that can cause disease.
- 24. noun [ U ] formal the regular use of illegal or harmful drugs
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- 1. noun [ C ] B2 a successful way of curing an illness or dealing with a problem or difficulty
- 2. verb [ I ] disapproving to pretend to be ill in order to avoid having to work
- 6. adjective of or relating to the veins
- 7. noun [ C ] a strip of cloth that is tied tightly around an injured arm or leg to stop it bleeding
- 8. verb [ T ] If a problem or illness afflicts a person or thing, they suffer from it
- 9. noun [ C ] US a doctor who specializes in identifying and treating diseases that do not need surgery (= cutting into the body)
- 10. noun [ U ] the act of bringing someone or something back to life or waking them
- 11. noun [ U ] formal the way that people do not live for ever; C2 the number of deaths within a particular society and within a particular period of time.
- 14. noun [ C ] B2 one of the parts or large rooms into which a hospital is divided, usually with beds for patients
- 15. verb [ T ] (of animals and insects that carry disease) to cause a problem by being present in large numbers
- 17. noun [ C ] an illness
- 19. verb [ T ] specialized to burn body tissue using heat or a chemical, to stop an injury from bleeding or getting infected, or to remove harmful cells
- 20. noun [ plural ] a small piece of equipment made of two narrow strips of metal joined at one end. It is used to pull out hairs or to pick up small objects by pressing the two strips of metal together with the fingers
- 23. noun [ C ] a report, especially in a newspaper, that gives the news of someone's death and details about their life