Medical terms

2. An instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.
5. Being unable to empty your bowels as often as you should.
7. A drug or a medicine for relieving pain.
8. An act of shaking slightly because you are frightened, cold, or ill.
9. A part of your body below the chest, in which the stomach is contained.
10. A continuous pain in the head.
14. An injury or mark caused by scraping.
16. A feeling that you are going to vomit.
18. Having a blocked nose and not being able to breathe through it.
19. An act or practice of injecting a person with a mild form of a disease to protect the body against that disease.

1. To empty the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
3. An injury or mark where the skin has not been broken but is darker in colour, often as a result of being hit by something.
4. A feeling as if everything is turning round and that you might fall.
6. A disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind.
9. A damaging immune response by the body to a substance to which it has become hypersensitive.
11. A serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.
12. An injury or opening in the skin made with a knife, etc.
13. A person trained to care for the sick, especially in a hospital.
15. To force air out of your lungs through your throat with a short, loud sound.
16. Not being able to feel or move anything.
17. A medical doctor, especially one who has general skill and is not a surgeon.