Across
- 5. when referring to bacteria, means changing in ways that reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of antibiotics to destroy them
- 6. systems- combinations of two or more organs to provide major body functions
- 7. nursing homes- facilities for the care of individuals who do not require hospitalization, but need general nursing care and assistance
- 8. standard methods of performing tasks
- 11. terms identifying diseases, body structures, and procedures that are named for the person who identified or discovered them
- 12. heath care practice based on the belief that pressure on the nerves leaves the spinal column pain/dysfunction of the body part served by that nerve
- 13. dementia- decline in memory and/or other thinking skills
- 14. tendency of a cell or the whole organism to maintain a state of balance
- 15. not a precise disease but groups of related signs and symptoms
- 17. condition in which the blood pressure is above the normal range
Down
- 1. health care services that don't require hospitalization
- 2. a fraction that has been "turned upside-down" during the process of dividing fractions
- 3. how one mentally views a situation
- 4. gathering information; step in charting the health care professionals impression of what is wrong with the patient, based on the signs and symptoms
- 5. pertaining to identifying and determining that cause and extent of disease/injuries
- 7. promises that are enforceable by law
- 9. abbreviations in which groups of letters are formed by taking the first letter of each word of a phrase
- 10. admitted to, and treated within a hospital
- 12. ethics- a system of principals a society develops to guide decision making about what is right and wrong
- 16. two or more types of tissues combined to work together