- •Healthy and happy – Active Vocabulary Diseases:
- •Feeling unwell:
- •Symptoms:
- •Asking about health:
- •Doctors:
- •Making an appointment with a doctor:
- •What do we do at the doctor’s?
- •What do the doctors do?
- •Medications and their effects:
- •Procedures of curing:
- •Prescriptions
- •At the chemist’s
- •Recovering
- •Dental problems:
- •Dental equipment:
- •Dental procedures:
- •Dentist’s advice:
- •Hospital terminology
- •Procedures in hospital
- •Patients’ condition
- •Operation
- •Convalescence and recuperation period
- •Social maladies
- •Heart Disease: Causes:
- •Prevention or cure
- •Prevention
- •Causes and symptoms
- •How to cope with it
Healthy and happy – Active Vocabulary Diseases:
Disease, ailment, illness, sickness, malady
An allergy (to) Appendicitis Asthma AIDS Bronchitis Cancer A chill A cold
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Chickenpox Concussion Diarrhoea Diabetes A fever (The) flu / influenza Food poisoning Hay fever
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A heart attack Indigestion Insomnia Malaria Malnutrition Measles Mumps A nervous breakdown |
Pneumonia Rheumatism Scarlet fever Stomach ulcer A stroke Tonsillitis Tuberculosis Typhoid |
Travel-, motion-, air-, car-, seasickness
A headache (A) toothache Earache, backache, stomach-ache, heartache |
To be ill with a disease (Compare: to be sick), To be down with a disease, To be laid up with a disease
To fall ill with a disease / To be taken ill with a disease / To come (go) down with a disease
An acute, common, serious, sudden, rare, chronic, mental, incurable / untreatable; fatal / terminal disease
To be prone to minor ailments
A contagious / infectious / catching disease
To spread / to pass on / to give / to carry a disease
To catch / to pick up a disease (from smb)
Isolated cases of – There is a lot of it about – An outbreak of – To reach epidemic proportions
Feeling unwell:
To feel out of sorts / To feel a bit funny / To feel off colour / To feel under the weather;
Ant: to be as fit as a fiddle
To feel run down, Compare: To be worn out
To look faint / feel faint / be faint
To be sickening for smth
Not to feel up to doing something
Symptoms:
To ache – To hurt – To be painful – To be sore
To feel a dull ache in smth
To be in pain, Ant: To be out of pain
An acute / severe / sharp, constant, dull, steady, sudden, shooting, slight pain
To feel pain rather like pins and needles
To be aching all over / to be all aches and pains
To suffer from smth, Compare: To suffer smth (a heart attack)
To hurt / injure smth badly / seriously / severely
To cause / bring on pain
To affect (heart, lungs…)
A bad / heavy / nasty cold; Ant: A slight cold
To develop / get a temperature /
To feel feverish / To have a (slight, high, constant) fever / To run a temperature
To shiver / To feel shivery
To shiver all over with cold
A bout of (the shivers) / a fit of (coughing) / an attack of asthma / a touch of (rheumatism)
Inflammation sets in
To be inflamed (by / with an infection)
To be allergic to smth / To have an allergy to smth
To lose consciousness / pass out / faint (from hunger)
HEAD To have a (splitting) headache, To feel giddy / dizzy, To suffer from giddiness / dizziness
EYES Eyes are running, sore, swollen, itchy, inflamed;
NOSE To have a cold in the head – To sneeze, The nose is running, The nose is stuffed up
THROAT To have a sore throat, It hurts to swallow, Swollen glands
CHEST To cough; To have a bad / heavy, dry, persistent cough; To suffer from chest pains, heartache, a pain in the chest; To be short of breath, Compare: To be out of breath; A fit of coughing, To cough away all night
STOMACH Stomach-ache, To lose appetite, A pain on eating, A pain in my side, Indigestion, Diarrhea, Constipation, To feel nauseous / to feel sick, To vomit / to throw up
SKIN To come out in (a rash) / To break into (sweat); Tomatoes bring me out in a rash; Spots, rash, bruises, blisters, cuts, wounds, inflammation, swelling; To itch
JOINTS Painful, stiff, hot to the touch, To swell up (Swollen joints)
ANKLE Sprained, twisted, broken / fractured
MUSCLES Aching, Pulled