Medical Terms
Verbs
Adjectives
Polio Related
Miscellaneous
100

Adjective: unable to walk normally (not paralyzed!)

What is crippled?

100

To look at closely

What is gaze?

100
Describes something that is against the law

What is illegal?

100

Noun; machine that helps polio patients breathe

What is the iron lung?

100

noun; a tune

What is a melody?

200

Noun: medicine given to prevent catching a disease

What is a vaccine?

200

To shine

What is glisten?

200

Describes something that is one of a kind

What is unique?

200

Adjective; unable to move

What is paralyzed?

200

noun; expectation, a feeling of looking forward to something

What is anticipation?

300

Noun; thick, slimy liquid manufactured in the respiratory passages

What is phlegm or mucus?

300

To take away

What is confiscate?

300

Describes something that is extremely painful

What is excruciating?

300

Adjective: Capable of being passed from one person to another

What is contagious?

300

Noun; someone in favor of equal rights for women

What is a feminist?

400

Noun; Medical test for taking fluid from around the spinal cord

What is a spinal tap?

400

to identify an illness

What is diagnose?

400

Describes something or someone that is very skilled

What is adept?

400

Noun: tiny creature that infects a living organism with a disease

What is a virus?

400

Adverb; perfectly, without imperfections

What is flawlessly

500

Noun: section of the hospital where infectious patients stay

What is the isolation ward?

500

To persuade, or ask nicely

What is coax?

500

Describes something related to breathing

What is respiratory?

500

Noun: violent muscle contraction

What is a spasm?

500

Noun; food and other substances that help the body grow, heal, and thrive

What is nourishment?