🇬🇧 English Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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CEFR B1 Medical Breakthroughs

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➡ Across 15 Words

4. Past tense: scientists ___ a new vaccine
6. Conjunction: the patient will not improve ___ he takes the medicine
7. A large building where sick people receive care
9. To provide a hospital with the necessary tools
15. Careful study to discover new medical facts
18. Tiny living things that can cause infection
19. A person who treats sick people
20. A medicine that protects people from a disease
23. A person who cares for patients in a hospital
24. Past tense: the vaccine ___ many lives
25. A person who studies science and does experiments
27. The process of getting better after an illness
28. To give medical care to a sick person
29. The condition of your body and mind
30. A medical operation to repair the body

⬇ Down 15 Words

1. The red liquid that flows through your body
2. Preposition: wash your hands ___ you see the patient
3. A substance used to treat or prevent disease
5. Preposition: ___ the operation, the doctors worked quickly
8. An illness caused by germs entering the body
10. A disease where the body cannot control sugar levels
11. To find something new, like a cure
12. An illness that affects the body or mind
13. To cause a change in the body, as a disease does
14. A place where people go for medical help
16. A person who receives medical care
17. Preposition: the medicine goes ___ the skin slowly
21. A chemical used to treat or prevent illness
22. To create a new medicine or device
26. Treatment to help someone recover from illness

📚 Study Guide: CEFR B1 (Intermediate) Vocabulary Focus

This CEFR B1 (Intermediate) English crossword targets descriptive vocabulary, workplace and academic terms, and abstract nouns connected to "Medical Breakthroughs". Pay attention to prefixes, suffixes, and intersecting letter patterns.

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