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Year 8 - Medicine Key Words

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Define: A type of plague. Boils under the arms (buboes) were one of the symptoms.

a)

Pneumonic plague

b)

Cholera

c)

Bubonic plague

d)

Miasma

2.

Define: A micro-organism that causes disease

a)

Germ

b)

Micro-organism

c)

Bacteria

d)

Virus

3.

Define: A drug given to make a person insensitive to pain.

a)

Antisceptic

b)

Anaesthetic

c)

Anticlimactic

d)

Anaphylaxis

4.

Define: An infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the small intestine, typically caught from infected water supplies.

a)

Typhoid

b)

Tuberculosis

c)

Ebola

d)

Cholera

5.

Define: surgery.

a)

The science of understanding the structure and make-up of the body.

b)

A person who is qualified to treat people who are ill.

c)

A part of medicine which uses operations to treat diseases and injuries.

d)

The removal of a limb or part of limb by surgery.

6.

Define: Hippocratic oath.

a)

The theory of the 4 Humours.

b)

A person who is qualified to treat people who are ill.

c)

The principles by which doctors work for the best of the patient and to do no harm.

d)

The theory of the Opposites.

7.

Define: An injection of killed or weakened organisms to give the body resistance against disease.

a)

Vaccination

b)

Inoculation

8.

Define: Four Humours

a)

Blood, sweat and tears

b)

Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile

c)

Black blood, yellow bile, red blood and phlegm

d)

Urine, feces, tears and sweat

9.

Define: An outbreak of disease that affects a large number of people.

a)

Epidemic

b)

Pandemic

c)

Bubonic

d)

Plague

10.

Define: Public health

a)

A person who is qualified to treat people who are ill.

b)

Refers to the well-being of the whole community.

c)

An outbreak of a disease that affects a large number of people.

d)

Something that can only be improved by going for a 30 minute jog.