SICKNESS AND HEALTH

The Word's The Thing

Specialized Vocabulary

Dr. Louis D. Appel

 

The answers to the clues below will be related to sickness and health. 

 

1. Drug or medication that relieves pain

2. Neutral substance used to appease a patient or as a control

3. Quack medicine (or favorite remedy for change) 

4. One who constantly complains of imaginary illnesses

5. Pretends to be sick or hurt in order to avoid work 

6. The symbol of the medical profession, a serpent entwined on a staff

7. Bring back to life or revive an unconscious person

8. Recover slowly from a serious illness or injury

9. Forecast of the likely course of a medical condition 

10. Any organism that causes disease

11. Weak and run down (due to a lack of red blood cells)

12. Non-cancerous

13. One paralyzed from the waist down

14. One paralyzed from the neck down

15. Total of the chemical processes taking place in the body to sustain life

Answers:

 

1. Analgesic

2. Placebo

3. Nostrum

4. Hypochondriac

5. Malinger

6. Caduceus

7. Resuscitate

8. Convalesce

9. Prognosis

10. Pathogen

11. Anemic

12. Benign

13. Paraplegic

14. Quadriplegic

15. Metabolism