Other useful words to do with health

Fill in the missing words in the sentences below. Choose from the following:

Alternative medicine, feverish, operating theatre, antidote, germs, paralysis, infectious, plastic surgery, blood transfusion, injection, post-mortem, check-up, intensive-care, quarantine, contagious, unit, side-effect, dose, sufferer, invalid, epidemic.

1. If you have an ____________________________ disease, such as a cold, others can catch it from you even if they don't touch you..

2 He's a surgeon and spends most of his time in the______________

3 A ___________________________ showed that he had died of food poisoning.

4 Summer is a nightmare for my wife as she's a hay fever_____________________

5 Acupuncture, herbal medicine, osteopathy and homeopathy are examples of_____________

6 She had lost so much blood in the car crash that she had to be given a ________

7 He's very seriously ill and has been moved to the hospital's _________________.

8 If you bring a dog or a cat into Britain from abroad, it has to spend six months in _____, just to make sure it isn't suffering from any diseases.

9. My cousin is diabetic and has to have an insulin________________ every day.

10 She's been bitten by a snake. Unless she's given an ___________________soon, she could die.

11One of the __________ of this drug is that your hair falls out.

12 Thousands of old people died in the latest flu_______________ to sweep through the country.

13 He went to the doctor for his annual ________________________

14 Her face was so badly disfigured in the fire that she needed ______________________

15. 'I've been feeling very ___________________, doctor, he explained, and I've also been having these pains in my chest.'

16. A _____________________ disease in one that can be passed on from person to person by touch.

17 She never fully recovered after the accident and spent the rest of her life as an ____________

18 According to the television advert, this disinfectant kills all known household ____________

19 Take one __________________ of this cough mixture three times a day

20 This disease can cause temporary _______________ of the right arm and leg.