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WorksheetsYear 8 - Medicine Key Words
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Define: A type of plague. Boils under the arms (buboes) were one of the symptoms.
Pneumonic plague
Cholera
Bubonic plague
Miasma
Define: A micro-organism that causes disease
Germ
Micro-organism
Bacteria
Virus
Define: A drug given to make a person insensitive to pain.
Antisceptic
Anaesthetic
Anticlimactic
Anaphylaxis
Define: An infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the small intestine, typically caught from infected water supplies.
Typhoid
Tuberculosis
Ebola
Cholera
Define: surgery.
The science of understanding the structure and make-up of the body.
A person who is qualified to treat people who are ill.
A part of medicine which uses operations to treat diseases and injuries.
The removal of a limb or part of limb by surgery.
Define: Hippocratic oath.
The theory of the 4 Humours.
A person who is qualified to treat people who are ill.
The principles by which doctors work for the best of the patient and to do no harm.
The theory of the Opposites.
Define: An injection of killed or weakened organisms to give the body resistance against disease.
Vaccination
Inoculation
Define: Four Humours
Blood, sweat and tears
Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
Black blood, yellow bile, red blood and phlegm
Urine, feces, tears and sweat
Define: An outbreak of disease that affects a large number of people.
Epidemic
Pandemic
Bubonic
Plague
Define: Public health
A person who is qualified to treat people who are ill.
Refers to the well-being of the whole community.
An outbreak of a disease that affects a large number of people.
Something that can only be improved by going for a 30 minute jog.
