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Health,Illness,and disease vocabulary

1. Pain
Feeling in your body when you have been hurt or when you are ill,sick
 She felt a strong pain in her neck and shoulder
 She teill take the medicine to relieve the pain

2. Ache
Continuous pain:feel a continuos pain
 My mother can’t sleep because her head aches so bad
 I don’t think I can go with you to the supermarket I have a terrible headache

3. III
Suffering from an illness or disease; not feeling well; sick
 My older sister is ill in Bunda hospital
 The people stard to feel ill an hour after the dinner

4. Sick
Physical or mentaly ill; wanting to vomit
 Ifeel very sick I don’t think I can go to campus today
 Don’t forget to tale the vitamin,unless you want to get sick

5. Sore
Painful ( and often red )because of infection or because a muscle has been used
tpp much
 I will eatporridge since I have a sore throat
 His feet were sore after the exercise

6. Illness
The state of being physically or mentally ill
 My lecturer missed a lot of classes through illness last month
 I don’t think she got a serious illness

7. Disease
Serious illness often caused by infection
 The spread of the disease should be stopped soon
 Her father has a lung disease
8. Heal
Become healthy again; make something, somebody heal thy again make
somebody feel happy again
 It will take a long time to heal the scratches
 The cake you made really healed me

9. Cure
Make somebody or something healthy again after an illness make an illness go
away
 I’m sure that doctor will be able to cure my disease
 This medicine is recommended to cure my headache

10. Cure
Medicine or medical treatment that cures an illness;the act of curing or the
process of being cured
 The cure
 She sould be taken to hospital for the cure

11. Treat
Give medical care or attention to somebody or something deal with something
pr somebody
 I was treated for thyphus
 This illness is usually treated with antibiotic

12. Treatment
( the wayor process of ) curing an illness or injury or making somebody look and
feel good; the way of dealing with something or somebody
 Various treatmets have been applied by the doctor
 My sister goes to beauty centre to have face treatment every month

13. Diagnose
Define what an illness or the cause of a problem is
 The blood test can be used to diagnose all kinds of diseases
 He was diagnosed cancer in her early childhood

14. Diagnosis
Medical description of an illness or condition
 My family to know the detail of the diagnosis
  I’m afraid of hearing the diagnosis of my disease
15. Injury
Harm done to the body; for example in an accident
 She got serioud injuries after the accident
 The injuries are being treated by the nurses

16. Injure
Harm somebody pr yourself physically especially in an accident receive/suffer
an injury
 She injured his finger when he was cutting the vegetables
 Two people were seriously injured in the accident

17. Wound
An injury to part of the body,especially one in which a hole is made in the skin
 He got the wounds from the accident last month
 He was taken to the hospital because his wounds seem so serious

18. Bruise
A blue, brown or purple maekon the skin after somebody has fallen
 The bruises he had after the match have gone
 He has a bruise over his eye

19. Scratch
Rub your skin with your nails usualy beause it’s itching a mark or a small cut or
injury made by scratching
 The child scratched his itchy skin
 She had a long scratch after the accident

20. Infection
Illness caused by bacteria or avirus ;the act or process of causing or getting a
disease
 The infection will get worse if you do not take care of it well
 His father died because of blood infection

21. Inflamtion
A condition when a part of the body becomes red,sore and swollen because of
infection or injury
 The inflammation has caused a trouble for me
  The child is crying because of her inflammation
22. Symtpom
A change in your body or mind that shows that you are not healthy
 You should tell the doctor about the symptoms cleary
 Depression can cause physical symptoms

23. Tempreatur
The measurement of how hot your body is
 He had a high temperature last night
 The nurse is checking his tempereature

24. Fever
Medical condition in which someone has a temperatue that is higher than
normal; a particular tyoe of disease with high temperature
 The doctor gave this to reduce my fever
 My cousin was diagnosed with scarlet fever

25. Cold
Illness affecting the nose and/or throat,making you cough and/or sneeze
 I think I change cold because of the rain last night
 She can’t come to school because she caught a cold

26. Flu
A very bad cold an infectious disease with fever painsand weakness
 Don’t come near me I have a flu
 The flu has been spread out

27. Vomit
Discharge stomach contents through the mount
 The children vomited soon afther they ate the meat
 I vomit after getting up every morning

28. Medicine
A substance that you drink or swallow so as to cure an illness
 Have you taken your medicine this morning ?
 The doctor prescribed two kinds of medicine for me
29. Antibioticts
Medical that kills bacteria and cures infections
 My flu has went away after I took the antibiotic
 Don’t forget to take the antibiotics after the meal

30. Pain killer

Kind of medicine that takes away some or all of the discomfort of an illness or
injury
 I took two pain killer because I got a terrible headache last night
 My mother has thrown away my pain killer

31. Boold pressure

The rate ar which blood flows through the body
 I think my blood pressure is too low
 The nurse is checking my mother blood pressure

32. Pulse
The regular beat of blood as it sent around the body
 The doctor said that I have a weak pulse
 The doctor started the examination by checking my pulse

33. Patient
A person staying in a hospital or medical facility
 The patient in room 102 suffers lung damage
 There were so many patients waiting to consult to the doctor that I finally
want home

34. Surgery
A place where a doctor or dentist sees patients; medical treatment of injuries or
diseases involving cutting open somebody’s body
 The surgery went well
 I don’t want to have a surgery

35. Operation
Cutting open a part of somedody’s body in order to remove or cure a part
 The operation was led by a senior surgeon
 The operation is scheduled tomorrow
36. Operaying theatre
A room in a hospital used for medical operations
 The patient died on the way to the operating theatre
 She falt nervous as she looked round the operating theatre

37. Chemist’s (shop)

A shop where medicine is sold
 The doctor suggested to go the chemist’s for the medicine right after the
surgery
 The chemist’s is so far away from my house

38. Prescription
An official piece of paper filled out by a doctor with which you can get medicine
from a chemist’s shop
 The doctor is signing the prescription for my mom
 I will keep this prescription, I may need it later