An English summer

Nursing crosswords*

Les mots croisés infirmiers

ACROSS

1 infirmière

3 plaque, lamelle

6 souci

8 cœur

11 paludisme

12 sida

14 circuler

17 se détacher (5, 3)**

20 poumons

22 mettre en pratique

23 escarres (8, 5)**

DOWN

2 coupon, échantillon

4 moyenne

5 essai (clinique)

7 engourdissement

9 tension artérielle (5, 8)**

10 milieu de culture (6, 6)**

13 sécher

15 abstinence

16 suivi (6, 2)**

18 grave

19 stagiaire, élève

21 conseil

What year was it*

Quelle année était-ce ?

1. John F. Kennedy was in the second year of his presidency. The Cuban missile crisis had ended. Bethany Hospital, Kansas, USA, established the first Intensive Care Unit (ICU) devoted to patients with myocardial infarction. John Glenn became the first US astronaut to orbit the earth.

2. Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain’s entry into the EEC. Dame Cecily Saunders set up the first hospice in London. Concorde was unveiled in Toulouse.

3. William Rathbone, a Liverpool philanthropist, employed the first district nurse at his home, to look after his dying wife. Queen Victoria was on the throne. Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was born.

Body talk

Mots mêlés

→ 25 parts of the body are hidden in the grid. Horizontal, vertical, diagonal, backwards…

Have fun !

BLADDER

BLOOD

BOWELS

BRAIN

CALF

EAR

ELBOW

EYE

FASCICLE

FEET

HAIR

KIDNEYS

KNEE

LIVER

NECK

SCALP

SHIN

SHOULDERS

SKIN STOMACH

THIGH

TOES

TONSILS

VEIN

VESSELS

Anagrams*

Anagrammes

→ Rearrange each set of letters to make a single, medical word.

1. (kinésithérapie) share hypo pity

2. (renvoi de l’hôpital ; écoulement) cigar shed

3. (déséquilibre) banal mice

4. (personnel de soins) racier veg

5. (malade externe) teapot unit

6. (grossesse) crag penny

7. (moelle épinière 6, 4) rancid slop

8. (maladie) seaside

9. (médicament) ice denim

10. (ordonnance) porcine trips

ANSWERS RÉPONSES

Nursing crosswords :

Word bank: trial, trainee, swatch, serious, pressure sores, plate, nurse, numbness, malaria, lungs, implement, heart, growth medium, follow up, flow, dry, concern, break off, blood pressure, average, AIDS, advise, abstention.

What year is it ? :

1. 1962

2. 1967

3. 1859

Anagrams : 1. physiotherapy 2. discharge 3. imbalance 4. caregiver 5. outpatient 6. pregnancy 7. spinal cord 8. disease 9. medicine 10. prescription