Health Care

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A serious infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans (6)
  2. 4. Country north of the USA known for maple syrup (6)
  3. 6. The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures (7)
  4. 8. The act of firing a projectile (plural) (5)
  5. 9. Any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated (plural) (8)
  6. 11. Health care for the aged (8)
  7. 12. Person who treats sick people (plural) (7)
  8. 13. The preservation of mental and physical ___ by preventing or treating illness through services (10)
  9. 15. Immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order (7)

Down

  1. 1. Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism (7)
  2. 2. Person who cares for patients in a hospital (5)
  3. 5. An illness that harms the body (7)
  4. 7. A person who requires medical care (plural) (8)
  5. 10. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a ___ school and that is (8)
  6. 11. Coins and bills used to buy things (5)
  7. 14. Land of the free; the USA (7)