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Medicine Through Time - Keywords
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- 1ALMSHOUSEA house founded by charity, offering accommodation to the poor.
- 2ANAESTHETICA substance that induces insensitivity to pain.
- 3ANATOMYThe branch of science concerned with the bodily structure of humans, animals and other living organisms.
- 4ANTIBIOTICSA medicine that inhibits the growth of or destroys micro-organisms.
- 5ANTISEPTICPreventing the growth of disease - causing micro-organisms.
- 6APOTHECARYA person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs.
- 7ASEPTICFree from contamination caused by micro-organisms. Surgically sterile or sterilized.
- 8BLACK DEATHDevastating pandemic in history. 75-200 million deaths. 1346-53
- 9BLOODLETTINGThe surgical removal of some of a patients blood for therapeutic purposes.
- 10CAUTERYAn instrument or a caustic substance used for cauterizing.
- 11DISSECTIONThe action of dissecting a body or plant to study its internal parts.
- 12DNAA self replicating material which is present in all living organisms. Carrier of genetic information.
- 13FLAGELLANTSA person who subjects themselves or others to flogging as a religious discipline.
- 14FOUR HUMOURSHippocrate's theory. Blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. It has an influence on the body and emotions.
- 15HYGIENEConditions or practises conductive to maintaining health and preventing disease.
- 16IMMUNISATIONAn individuals immune system becomes fortified against an agent.
- 17INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONThe Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
- 18INOCULATIONThe action of being vaccinated.
- 19LAISSEZ FAIREThe policy of leaving things to take their own course, without interfering.
- 20LIGATUREA thing used for tying or bonding something tightly.
- 21MAGIC BULLETA medicine or other remedy with advanced or highly specific properties.
- 22MIASMAAn unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapour.
- 23MICROBESA micro-organism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation.
- 24NHSThe National Health Service.
- 25PATENT MEDICINEA property medicine made and marketed under a patent and available without prescription.
- 26PHARMACYA shop or hospital dispensary where medicinal drugs are sold.
- 27PHYSIOLOGYThe branch of biology that deals with the normal functions of living organisms.
- 28PLASTIC SURGERYThe process of reconstructing or repairing parts of the body.
- 29PUBLIC HEALTHThe health of the population as a whole, especially as monitored, regulated and promoted.
- 30PURGINGRid (someone) of an unwanted feeling, memory or condition.
- 31RENAISSANCE14th-16th century.
- 32SEPSISThe presence in tissues of harmful bacteria and their toxins, typically through infection of a wound.
- 33SEWERAn underground conduit for carrying off drainage water and waste matter.
- 34SPONTANEOUS GENERATIONThe supposed production of living organisms from non-living matter.
- 35SUPERNATURALManifestations of events considered to be of supernatural origin, such as ghosts.
- 36SURGEONA medical practitioner qualified to practice surgery.
- 37TRANSFUSIONThe act of transferring donated blood, blood products, or other fluid into the system.
- 38VACCINATIONThe administration of antigenic material to create a pathogen.
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