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- 4. The organized provision of medical care to individuals or a community.
- 6. the process of infecting or the state of being infected.
- 7. permission for something to happen or agreement to do something
- 9. an infectious and frequently fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus, whose normal host species is unknown.
- 11. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
- 12. the quality or state of being in accordance with the law.
- 13. Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
- 14. An infectious disease caused by rickettsiae, characterized by a purple rash, headaches, fever, and usually delirium, and historically a cause of high mortality during wars and famines. There are several forms, transmitted by vectors such as lice, ticks, mites, and rat fleas.
Down
- 1. Improper, illegal, or negligent professional activity or treatment, especially by a medical practitioner, lawyer, or public official.
- 2. lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid. Inflammation may affect both lungs (double pneumonia), one lung (single pneumonia), or only certain lobes (lobar pneumonia).
- 3. the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
- 5. a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.
- 8. An infectious bacterial disease characterized by the growth of nodules in the tissues, especially the lungs.
- 10. Human immunodeficiency virus, a retrovirus which causes AIDS.