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This health word search hides words like doctor, healthy, medicine to find. Play it free online or print the PDF with the answer key, a handy health vocabulary activity.

10 words · 11×11 grid · Medium · Answer key included · Free printable PDF

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  • STETHOSCOPE
  • NUTRITION
  • BREATHING
  • HEARTBEAT
  • MEDICINE
  • EXERCISE
  • RECOVERY
  • HEALTHY
  • VITAMIN
  • DOCTOR
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Did you know?

doctor
The snake-on-a-staff medical symbol traces back to Asclepius of ancient Greece, whose temples were among the first healing centers.
healthy
A healthy adult can carry roughly as many bacterial cells as human cells, a crowd of microscopic neighbors inside one familiar body.
medicine
Penicillin grew from a chance observation: mold kept nearby bacteria away, turning a spoiled laboratory dish into a medical clue.
exercise
Astronauts exercise with special resistance machines because ordinary weights feel almost weightless while orbiting Earth.
vitamin
The word vitamin comes from Latin vita, meaning life; chemist Casimir Funk coined it in 1912 thinking the substances were amines.
recovery
Some animals recover lost limbs; humans can sometimes regrow the very tip of a finger, including part of its nail.
nutrition
The body can't make its own vitamin C, although many other mammals can manufacture it instead of getting it from food.
breathing
Some wind players breathe in through their noses while pushing air from their cheeks, keeping a note going without a break.
heartbeat
The familiar lub-dub of a heartbeat comes mainly from valves closing, not simply from the heart muscle squeezing.
stethoscope
The stethoscope began as a rolled paper tube, letting a doctor listen to a patient's chest without pressing an ear against it.
thermometer
Celsius originally put zero at boiling and one hundred at freezing, the reverse of the thermometer scale carrying his name today.
wellness
A Montreal museum partnered with doctors to prescribe free visits, putting time with paintings alongside more familiar forms of medical care.
pharmacy
Agatha Christie's hospital pharmacy work supplied knowledge of medicines that later helped her write detailed mystery plots, linking two very different careers.
appetite
The tiny Etruscan shrew can eat roughly twice its body weight each day, giving a very small mammal an outsized appetite.
fitness
Exercising one arm can increase strength in the other, untrained arm, revealing that gains aren't limited to the muscles doing the work.

Trivia

  1. Roughly what fraction of an adult human body is made up of water: one tenth, one third, or about two thirds?

    About two thirds (around 60%).

  2. What is the largest organ of the human body?

    The skin.

  3. Which vitamin does your skin make when it is exposed to sunlight?

    Vitamin D.

  4. What is the normal resting body temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, often rounded to a familiar number?

    About 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 Celsius).

  5. Which doctor is known as the father of medicine and gave his name to a famous oath?

    Hippocrates.

Trivia · 1 / 5
Roughly what fraction of an adult human body is made up of water: one tenth, one third, or about two thirds?
About two thirds (around 60%).

In their words

Eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise.

Hippocrates, Regimen

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Florence Nightingale

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This health word search is a free printable puzzle with 10 hidden words in an 11×11 grid. Find words like STETHOSCOPE, NUTRITION, BREATHING hidden across, down, and diagonally. You can play it right here in your browser — tap the first and last letter of a word — or download it as a printable PDF with the full answer key on page two. It's free for personal and classroom use, so teachers can print copies for a whole class with no sign-up and no account. Word searches like this one are a proven way to build vocabulary, spelling, and word-shape recognition, which is why they're a favourite with ESL learners, elementary classrooms, and anyone who likes a quiet puzzle with their coffee.

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Sources: Ignaz Semmelweis (Wikipedia) · Blue Zones (National Geographic) · Vitamin etymology / Casimir Funk · Florence Nightingale, Notes on Hospitals

Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.