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Flashcards by Nuala Glasheen, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Nuala Glasheen
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Bloodletting | The drawing of blood from a patient by a doctor. |
| Dissection | Cutting open a body to examine its internal structure. |
| Four Humours | A theory that developed in Ancient Greece to explain illness due to an imbalance of blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile. |
| Latrine | Something used as a communal toilet. |
| Privy | Individual latrines. |
| Medieval | A name for the 'Middle Ages', the period between the Ancient World, which ended when the Romans left, and the Renaissance of the 16th and 17th Century. |
| Physician | A trained doctor |
| Public Health | The standard of living conditions and general health of the people. |
| Purging | Getting rid of bad or excess Humours by making someone sick or by making them have diarrhoea. |
| Society | The way a group of people links together in some common ways. |
| Supernatural | Forces outside nature that some people believe can affect events, for example, God, charms and luck, witchcraft or astrology. |
| Surgeon | Someone who deals with wounds or with treatment that involves cutting the body. |
| Anatomy | The structure of the body, for examples, bones, nerves, muscles. |
| Black Death | A highly infectious disease that spread throughout Europe in the mid- 14th Century. |
| Physiology | The way organs function within the body, for example, the work of the heart, liver and kidneys. |
| Reformation | A period of challenges and divisions within the Christian Church. |
| Renaissance | A period in the 16th and 17th centuries when people thought they were reviving Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman culture but also made new discoveries. |
| Royal Society | A group set up in 1660 to enable educated people to discuss scientific ideas. |
| Epidemic | A severe outbreak of an infectious disease. |
| Industrial | Connected to industry and manufacturing. |
| Industrial Revolution | The period c1750 - c1900 when there were rapid changes in the way work and industry was organised. |
| Inoculation | A way of giving a patient a mild dose of an illness so that the body builds up its immunity. |
| Miasma | The theory that disease is caused by poisonous vapours in the air. |
| Spontaneous Generation | The idea that rubbish or decaying material creates microbes. |
| Microbes | Small organisms or germs. |
| Vaccination | A safe way of stimulating the body's immune system against a particular disease. |
| Antibiotics | Drugs that stop infections caused by bacteria. |
| Consultant | A doctor specialising in a specific disease or part of the body; usually based in hospital. |
| Crystallography | Using radiation to take a high-powered X-ray photograph. |
| DNA | The abbreviation for deoxyribonucleic acid, which contains the genetic instructions for every cell in the body. |
| General Practitioner (GP) | A doctor who works in a practice dealing directly with the public. |
| Genetics | The study of genes and inherited characteristics. |
| Immunisation | The process of making someone immune to a disease, including inoculation and vaccination. |
| Magic Bullet | A chemical drugs that kills the microbes causing a specific disease without harming the rest of the body. |
| National Health Service (NHS) | An organisation set up by the government in 1948 to give free health care. |
| Pharmaceutical Industry | The business of manufacturing medicinal drugs prescribed by a doctor or sold by a chemist. |
| Pharmacy | A business selling medical drugs; a chemist's shop. |
| Prescription Charges | Payment for medicine prescribed by a doctor. |
| Radiotherapy | The use of radiation in medicine, often to attack cancer. |
| Welfare State | The co-ordination and provision by the government of all matters affecting the health of people. |
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