Medical Terms Word Search
Medical terms give doctors a shared vocabulary precise enough to avoid confusion between patients and across countries. Many come from Latin and Greek roots, so once you learn a few pieces you can often guess at a new word. Useful for anyone who wants to follow a doctor's explanation.
Medical Terms word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- allergy
- checkup
- dose
- fever
- germ
- infection
- pulse
- symptom
- vaccine
- virus
Medical Terms word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- allergy
- antibiotic
- bacteria
- checkup
- chronic
- diagnosis
- dose
- fever
- germ
- immune
- infection
- pulse
- symptom
- vaccine
- virus
Medical Terms word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- allergy
- anatomy
- antibiotic
- bacteria
- checkup
- chronic
- contagious
- diagnosis
- dose
- fever
- germ
- immune
- infection
- inflammation
- prescription
- pulse
- symptom
- therapy
- vaccine
- virus
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Words in the Medical Terms word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- fever
- Body temperature raised above normal by illness
- pulse
- Beat of blood felt at the wrist or neck
- virus
- Tiny germ that multiplies inside living cells
- germ
- General word for a microbe that causes disease
- allergy
- Immune overreaction to something usually harmless
- vaccine
- Preparation that teaches the immune system to resist disease
- dose
- Measured amount of medicine taken at one time
- symptom
- Sign of illness a patient notices and reports
- infection
- Illness caused by germs multiplying in the body
- checkup
- Routine visit to review a person's health
- immune
- Protected against a particular disease
- bacteria
- Single-celled organisms, some helpful and some harmful
- diagnosis
- A doctor's conclusion about what is wrong
- antibiotic
- Medicine that kills or stops bacteria
- chronic
- Describes a condition lasting a long time
- therapy
- Treatment aimed at healing or improving function
- prescription
- Written order from a doctor for a medicine
- inflammation
- Redness, heat and swelling from the body's response
- contagious
- Able to spread from one person to another
- anatomy
- Study of the structure of the body
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