| ASPIRATOR | Suction device used in medicine to clear fluids, tissue etc. from body cavities (9) |
| STEMCELL | Self-renewing generator of tissue, etc |
| SPECIMEN | A typical example; a remarkable type; a sample of blood, plasma, tissue etc, for diagnostic analysis; or, derogatorily, a person or animal (8) |
| ANETIC | From "abating sickness", word used in medicine to mean "soothing" (6) |
| LEECHES | Worms historically used in medicine to remove blood from patients (7) |
| IMMUNESYSTEM | A complex network of cells, tissues etc. that defends the body against infection (6,6) |
| NIGHTSTAND | Place for a lamp, tissues, etc. |
| ENDOSCOPY | Use of an optical instrument to view internal body cavities |
| ENDOSCOPE | Instrument for viewing internal body cavities and organs (9) |
| OPHIDIANS | Snakes etc. from India wriggling around in weird shop (9) |
| STALEMATE | Situation, in chess, politics etc, from which neither side can win. (9) |
| MASSMEDIA | Reporters etc from a ship by the sea in the end returning |
| INGENERAL | Overall taken from body of tiny Tom Thumb? |
| STRIKEOFF | Delete name etc. from a list (6,3) |
| AMADOU | A spongy substance made from certain fungi, used as tinder, in medicine to stop bleeding, and by anglers to dry off dry flies between casts |
| PALPATE | In medicine, to examine (a part of the body) by means of touch or pressure (7) |
| STOMACHPUMP | Stand, something to do with iron suction device (7,4) |
| JUICE | Thin clear fluid secreted by the stomach to aid digestion, containing hydrochloric acid, pepsin etc. (5) |
| NONENTITY | Nobody with first three characters in 11 down from body (9) |
| CATHETER | Medical tube to remove waste from body - heart etc (anag) (8) |
