Nurses Week 2010

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care (8)
  2. 8. A ___ in a hospital or clinic staffed and equipped to provide ___ care to persons requiring (13)
  3. 9. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease (3)
  4. 10. A chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure (10)
  5. 12. The preservation of mental and physical ___ by preventing or treating illness through services (10)
  6. 14. The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures (7)

Down

  1. 1. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a ___ school and that is (8)
  2. 2. The act of firing a projectile (4)
  3. 3. A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold (8)
  4. 5. A sudden severe instance of abnormal ___ function (11)
  5. 6. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)
  6. 7. The natural process by which the body repairs itself (7)
  7. 11. A loving feeling (6)
  8. 13. Alternative names for the body of a human being (7)