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The person performs X-rays to help doctors produce diagnostic images for their patients.
Radiologist
This department provides medical care to patients who have problems with their heart or circulation.
Cardiology
An official name for the infectious disease caused by a new form of virus that emerged in China in late 2019.
COVID-19
A medical condition in which the temperature of your body is very high and you feel ill.
Fever
A small piece of solid medicine that you swallow with water.
Pill
The person prepares and dispense prescription medications and educate patients on how to take their medications safely.
Pharmacist
This department investigates and treats digestive and upper and lower gastrointestinal diseases.
Gastroenterology
A serious medical condition in which your body does not produce enough insulin to reduce the amount of sugar in the blood.
Diabetes
A small, often red, mark or lump on a person's skin.
Spot
A needle fitted to a plastic tube, used for taking blood from your body or for putting medicine or drugs into it.
Syringe
A nurse whose job is to look after women when they are giving birth to a baby.
Midwife
This department investigates and treats problems relating to the female urinary tract and reproductive organs, such as endometriosis, infertility and incontinence.
Gynaecology
An infection that inflames your lungs' air sacs (alveoli). The air sacs may fill up with fluid or pus, causing symptoms such as a cough, fever, chills and trouble breathing.
Pneumonia
When food comes up from your stomach and out through your mouth because you are ill. The usual British expression is be sick.
Vomiting
A long thin piece of cloth that you wrap around an injured part of your body
Bandage
A doctor who operates on patients to repair injuries or help treat diseases or conditions.
Surgeon
This department services work with the laboratory. In addition doctors treat blood diseases and malignancies related to the blood.
Haematology
An infectious disease of the liver that can be very serious, there are five types of this illness (A, B, C, D, E)
Hepatitis
An area of your body that has increased in size as a result of an injury or an illness.
Swelling
A thin piece of cloth or plastic that is sticky on one side, and that you put on your skin to cover a cut.
Band-Aid
The person supports doctors by caring for sick, injured or recovering patients and communicating with patients and families.
Nurse
This department monitors and assesses patients with various kidney (renal) problems and conditions.
Nephrology
An infectious disease that most children get once, in which the skin is covered with red spots. It is a more serious disease in adults.
Chickenpox
Sudden severe pain in a tired muscle that becomes very tight.
Cramp
A stick that fits under your arm so that you can lean on it and walk when your leg or foot is injured.
Crutch/ a pair of crutches