Unit 1 Meeting colleagues

Word 12-hour clock (n) Definition a way of telling the time using 12 hours from midnight to midday and 12 hours from midday to midnight a way of telling the time using the 24 hours in the day before something happens or is expected to happen the hours after midday a nurse who works for a business that provides nursing services for people or organisations to make a decision with someone after a discussion with them used to look inside the coronary arteries to determine if a heart condition is present an arrangement for a meeting at an agreed time and place, for a particular purpose the sister of your father or mother, or the wife of your PHOTOCOPIABLE 2012 Pearson Translation horario en base a 12 horas (n)

24-hour clock (n)

horario en base a 24 horas (n)

advance (n)

por adelantado (n)

afternoon (n) agency nurse (n)

tarde (n) enfermera de agencia (n)

agree (v)

acordar (v)

angiogram (n)

angiograma (n)

appointment (n)

cita (n)

aunt (n)

ta (n)

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Definition father's or mother's brother

Translation

bank (n)

a business that keeps and lends money and provides other financial services a hot or cold drink a cover for a bed, usually made of wool a set of printed pages held together in a cover so you can read them a band or chain that you wear around your wrist the meal you have in the morning a male who has the same parents as you an area where people can park their cars a thin tube that is put into your body to remove liquids

banco (n)

beverage (n) blanket (n)

bebida (n) manta (n)

book (n)

libro (n)

bracelet (n)

brazalete (n)

breakfast (n)

desayuno (n)

brother (n)

hermano (n)

car park (n)

aparcamiento (n)

catheter (n)

catter (n)

charge nurse (n)

a nurse who is responsible enfermera jefe (n) for the work done in one part of a hospital information that is arranged grfico (n) clearly in the form of a set of figures, graph or a piece of paper with information on it someone who is not yet an adult a group of students who are taught together register your arrival time at work register your departure time at work nio (n)

chart (n)

child (n)

class (n)

clase (n)

clock in (v)

fichar a la entrada (v)

clock out (v)

fichar a la salida (v)

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Word code (n)

Definition a set of numbers, letters or symbols that shows what something is or gives information about it something that is cold has a low temperature a common illness that makes it difficult to breathe through your nose and often makes your throat hurt the child of your uncle or aunt

Translation cdigo (n)

cold (adj)

fro (adj)

cold (n)

resfriado (n)

cousin (n)

primo (n)

CT scanner (n)

(= computerised tomography Escner mediante tomografa scanner) an X-ray machine computerizada (n) that takes multiple pictures of structures within the body and turns them into pictures on a computer screen (= department) one of the groups of people who work together in a particular part of a large organisation, e.g. a hospital an illness in which waste from the bowels is watery and comes out often the main meal of the day to interrupt someone so that they cannot continue what they are doing a piece of paper that has official information on it Dpto. (abrev)

dept. (abbr)

diarrhoea (n)

diarrea (n)

dinner (n) disturb (v)

comida (n) interrumpir (v)

document (n)

documento (n)

drip (n)

a piece of equipment used in gotero (n) hospitals for putting liquids directly into your blood to stop holding or carrying something so that it falls dejar caer (n)

drop (v)

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Word during (prep)

Definition from the beginning to the end of a period of time

Translation durante (prep)

ECG (n)

electrocardigrafo (= electrocardiograph) a (ECG) (n) piece of equipment that records the electrical activity of the heart someone who is paid to work for someone else to go or come into a place empleado (n)

employee (n)

enter (v)

entrar (v)

equipment (n)

the tools, machines, clothes, equipo (n) etc. that you need to do a particular job or activity to take someone acompaar (v) somewhere, especially when you are protecting or guarding them the early part of the night, between the end of the day and the time you go to bed to make a fire or light stop burning rooms, equipment or services that are provided for a particular purpose primera hora de la noche (n)

escort (v)

evening (n)

extinguish (v)

apagar (v)

facilities (n pl)

instalaciones (n)

family tree (n)

a drawing that gives the rbol genealgico (n) names of all the members of a family over a long period of time, and shows how they are related to each other a male parent the father of your husband or wife a coloured or white part that a plant or tree produces before fruit or seeds padre (n) suegro (n)

father (n) father-in-law (n)

flower (n)

flor (n)

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Word flu (n)

Definition

Translation

a common illness that gives gripe (n) you a sore throat and makes you cough and have to clear your nose a lot the first name, any middle nombre completo (n) names and the surname of a person the daughter of your son or daughter the father of your father or mother nieta (n)

full name (n)

granddaughter (n)

grandfather (n)

abuelo (n)

grandmother (n)

the mother of your mother or abuela (n) father the son of your son or daughter nieto (n)

grandson (n)

healthcare assistant (n)

a support worker in a clinical asistente sanitario (n) area who works under the supervision of a registered practitioner things you do to make it easier or possible for someone to do something the man that a woman is married to ayuda (n)

help (n)

husband (n)

marido (n)

identity bracelet (n)

a band that you wear around pulsera identificativa (n) your wrist with your name and other details about you a brief description of a position held by an employee to go away from a place cargo (n)

job title (n)

leave (v)

salir (v)

litter (v)

waste paper, cans, etc. that people have thrown away and left on the ground in a public place

desperdicios (n)

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Word machine (n)

Definition a piece of equipment with moving parts that uses power such as electricity to do a particular job an X-ray picture of a woman's breasts used to check for signs of cancer someone whose job is to manage part or all of a company or other organisation a time during the day when you have a meal relating to medicine and the treatment of disease or injury to see and talk to someone for the first time, or be introduced to them a person who belongs to a group or organisation the middle of the day; 12 o'clock 12 o'clock at night a telephone that you can carry with you and use in any place the hours before midday a female parent the mother of your wife or husband (= magnetic resonance imaging scanner) a special test that uses magnetic waves to create pictures of an area of the body,

Translation mquina (n)

mammogram (n)

mamografa (n)

manager (n)

director (n)

mealtime (n)

hora de comer (n)

medical (adj)

mdico (adj)

meet (v)

conocer (v)

member (n)

miembro (n)

midday (n)

medioda (n)

midnight (n) mobile phone (n)

medianoche (n) telfono mvil (n)

morning (n) mother (n) mother-in-law (n)

maana (n) madre (n) suegra (n)

MRI scanner (n)

Escner por imagen de resonancia magntica (n)

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Word

Definition including bones, muscles and tendons

Translation

need (v)

to have to have something or someone

necesitar (v)

night (n)

during the dark part of each noche (n) 24-hour period when the sun cannot be seen and when most people sleep a period of time at night when people regularly work a surface intended for the posting of public messages turno de noche (n)

night shift (n)

notice board (n)

tabln de anuncios (n)

opening hours (n pl)

the hours when a shop, horario de apertura bank, bar, etc. is open to the (n) public one of the numbers, e.g. first, second, third which show the order of things someone who is receiving medical treatment from a doctor or in a hospital nmero ordinal (n)

ordinal number (n)

patient (n)

paciente (n)

radiology (n)

the study and medical use of radiologa (n) radiation a plan of what someone is going to do and when they are going to do it if workers work shifts they work for a particular period of time during the day or night and are then replaced by others so that there are always people working a girl or woman who has the same parents as you someone's male child the people who work for an programa (n)

schedule (n)

shift (n)

turno (n)

sister (n)

hermana (n)

son (n) staff (n)

hijo (n) personal (n)

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Word

Definition organisation

Translation

staff nurse (n)

enfermera titulada (n) British English a British hospital nurse whose rank is just below a sister a nurse in training enfermera en prcticas (n) sufrir (v)

student nurse (n)

suffer (v)

to experience physical or mental pain to pass an information scanner over digital information so that it can read the electronic information British English a small meal eaten in the afternoon a group of people who have been chosen to work together to do a particular job a medical examination on a part of your body to check your health or to discover what is wrong with you a piece of paper on which the hours you have worked are written or printed feeling that you want to sleep or rest to put your hand, finger, etc. on someone or something a temporary bed on wheels used to transport patients

swipe (v)

escanear (v)

tea (n)

t (n)

team (n)

equipo (n)

test (n)

prueba (n)

time sheet (n)

informe de horas (n)

tired (adj)

cansado (adj)

touch (v)

tocar (v)

trolley (n)

camilla (n)

turn off (phr v)

to do something to an object desconectar (v) so that it is not working or operating the time period when horario de visita (n)

visiting hours (n pl)

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Definition someone is allowed to visit a place or a person

Translation

visitor (n)

someone who comes to visit visitante (n) a place or a person a set of rules, laws or principles that tell visitors how to behave when food or other substances that come up from your stomach and through your mouth a stick that is used to support someone while they walk a large room in a hospital where people who need medical treatment stay a nurse in charge of a large room in a hospital where people who need medical treatment stay to clean something using water and a type of soap not physically strong a chair with wheels; used by people who cannot walk or have difficulty walking the woman that a man is married to an injury to your body cdigo del visitante (n)

visitors code (n)

vomiting (n)

vomitar (v)

walking stick (n)

bastn (n)

ward (n)

sala (n)

ward sister (n)

Enfermera de sala (n)

wash (v)

lavar (v)

weak (adj) wheelchair (n)

dbil (adj) silla de ruedas (n)

wife (n)

esposa (n)

wound (n)

herida (n)

X-ray (n)

a beam of radiation that is used for photographing the inside of the body

rayos X (n)

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