Questions
Is it possible to recover from malaria?
Yes
A symptom of illness in which you have a very high body temperature
Fever
An instance of injecting or being injected
Injection
Electrical prosthesis surgically implanted into a human eye in order to allow for the transduction of light (the change of light from the environment into impulses the brain can process) in people who have sustained severe damage to the retina
Bionic eye
The treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by physical methods such as massage, heat treatment, and exercise rather than by drugs or surgery
Physiotherapy
Are scientists trying to modify bacteria that live in mosquitoes?
Yes
A medical specialist who administers anaesthetics
Anaesthetist
A person who is professionally qualified to prepare and dispense medicinal drugs
Pharmacist
A person who uses X-rays or other high-energy radiation, especially a doctor specializing in radiology
Radiologist
A medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness
Psychiatrist
A disease in part of your body caused by bacteria or a virus
Infection
A person (typically a woman) trained to assist women in childbirth
Midwife
A medical practitioner qualified to practice surgery
Surgeon
A drug or a medicine for relieving pain
Painkiller
An operation in which an organ or tissue is transplanted
Transplant
A plant or animal that lives on or in another plant or animal and gets food from it
Parasite
Painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints
Arthritis
Disease which affects the heart
Heart disease
A disease in which the body’s ability to produce or respond to the hormone insulin is impaired, resulting in abnormal metabolism of carbohydrates and elevated levels of glucose in the blood and urine
Diabetes
A medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms
Antibiotcs
Something that shows you have an illness
Symptoms
To get a serious illness
Contract
A substance used to protect people against a disease, which contains a weak form of the virus that causes the disease
Vaccine
When a doctor says what illness someone has
Diagnosis
Another illness that happens when someone is already ill
Complications