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- 2. spreads quickly to other areas
- 3. a doctor who treats babies
- 5. you suddenly take in your breath and then blow it down your nose noisily without being able to stop yourself, for example because you have a cold.
- 8. is a small glass tube with a hollow rubber part on one end which you use for drawing up and dropping small amounts of liquid
- 10. a long strip of cloth which is wrapped around a wounded part of someone's body to protect or support it.
- 12. a medical condition in which someone has too much sugar in their blood.
- 14. a doctor or nurse puts a medicine into your body using a device with a needle called a syringe.
- 16. an area of red spots that appears on your skin when you are ill or have a bad reaction to something that you have eaten or touched.
- 18. s medical treatment in which someone's body is cut open so that a doctor can repair, remove, or replace a diseased or damaged part
- 19. a vehicle for taking people to and from hospital.
- 21. a kind of germ that can cause disease
- 22. an instrument for measuring temperature. It usually consists of a narrow glass tube containing a thin column of a liquid which rises and falls as the temperature rises and falls.
- 23. a steady, fairly strong pain in a part of your body.
- 25. a situation when there is a particular disease somewhere, it affects a very large number of people there
- 27. the prevention and treatment of illness or injury, esp. on a comprehensive
- 29. the prevention and treatment of illness or injury, esp. on a comprehensive
- 32. the condition of being excessively fat or fleshy
- 33. the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
- 35. a condition when a bone or joint in your body, or in someone else's body moves out of its proper position in relation to other bones, usually in an accident
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- 1. a drug which reduces or stops physical pain.
- 4. a small tube with a thin hollow needle at the end. It is used for putting liquids into things and for taking liquids out, for example for injecting drugs or for taking blood from someone's body.
- 6. a person whose job is to care for people who are ill.
- 7. a cover made of plaster of Paris which is used to protect a broken bone by keeping part of the body stiff.
- 9. the piece of paper on which your doctor writes an order for medicine and which you give to a chemist or pharmacist to get the medicine.
- 11. a smooth thick substance that is put on sore skin or a wound to help it heal.
- 13. the condition of being anable to sleep during night time
- 15. an unexpected and difficult or dangerous situation, especially an accident, which happens suddenly and which requires quick action to deal with it.
- 17. a long strip of cloth which is wrapped around a wounded part of someone's body to protect or support it.
- 20. a very strong irrational fear or hatred of something.
- 24. when a doctor tries to make the patient well again
- 26. is the fact or experience of being ill
- 28. you have pains in your stomach and chest that are caused by difficulties in digesting food.
- 30. the condition when smb's heart begins to beat very irregularly or stops completely.
- 31. a person whose training is similar to that of a nurse and who helps to do medical work.
- 34. a place where people who are ill are looked after by nurses and doctors.