1
a doctor who is trained in general medicine and who treats patients in a local community rather than at a hospital.
2
the treatment of disease, injury or weakness in the joints or muscles by exercises, massage and the use of light and heat.
3
an official piece of paper on which a doctor writes the type of medicine you should have, and which enables you to get it from a chemist's.
4
a doctor who studies and treats heart diseases.
5
a person whose job is to prepare medicines and sell or give them to the public in a shop or in a hospital.
6
a serious illness affecting one or both lungs that makes breathing difficult.
7
to make something less severe.
8
a large number of cases of a particular disease or medical condition happening at the same time in a particular community.
9
the state of being healthy, especially when you actively try to achieve this.
10
a substance that is put into the blood and that protects the body from a disease.
11
a sudden attack of an illness, especially one that affects the brain.
12
a small earthquake in which the ground shakes slightly.
13
a long narrow piece of cloth used for tying around a part of the body that has been hurt in order to protect or support it.
14
to injure a joint in your body, especially your wrist or ankle, by suddenly twisting it.
15
a disease, especially of children, that causes painful swellings at the sides of the face and under the ears.
