Medicine/

Question 1

Not able to be cured
incurable.

Parkinson’s disease is a debilitating and incurable disease of the nervous system.

(INCURABLE)

Answer 1

INCURABLE

Question 2

Not feeling well, or suffering from a disease.

I felt ill so I went home.

(ENFERMO)

Answer 2

ILL

Question 3

Disease of the joints (= places where two bones join together)

Arthrosis of the wrist joint.

(ARTROSIS)

Answer 3

ARTHROSIS

Question 4

A substance that is put into the body of a person or animal to protect them from a disease by causing them to produce antibodies (=proteins that fight diseases)

This vaccine protects against some kinds of the bacteria.

(VACUNA)

Answer 4

VACCINE

Question 5

A disease of the body or mind

He died at home after a long illness.

(ENFERMEDAD)

Answer 5

ILLNESS

Question 6

Either of a pair of small organs in the body that take away waste matter from the blood to produce urine.

kidney failure
(insuficiencia renal)

(RIÑON)

Answer 6

KIDNEY

Question 7

The smallest basic unit of a plant or animal.

(célula)

Answer 7

CELL

Question 8

(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by an accident.

A contagious/infectious disease.

(ENFERMEDAD)

Answer 8

DISEASE

Question 9

The organ in the body of a woman or other female mammal in which a baby develops before birth.

Researchers are looking at how a mother’s health can affect the baby in the womb.

(ÚTERO)

Answer 9

WOMB