MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND MEDICAMENTS

plaster

a plaster

a thermometer

bandage

pill

painkiller

aspirin

a wheelchair

a first - aid kit

HEALTH PROBLEMS

to have an accident

to be in a hospital

to take medicaments

PEOPLE AND ACTIVITIES

patient

doctor/physician

nurse

to examine

examination

to prescribe

prescription

to treat

treatment

SYMPTOMS

to vomit (if you get travel - sick or eat sth bad)

to cough (if you have asthma or problems with breathing)

to have fever/high temperature (if you sweat and want to drink a lot)

to sneeze (if you have a cold or allergy)

rash (if you have problems with skin)

bruise (if you have a dark mark on the skin after you hit sth very hard)

wound (an injury to a part of your body, especially a cut)

INJURIES

to bleed (nose)

to cut (a finger)

to twist (an ankle)

to break (an arm/leg)

to ache (head)

to burn (skin)

to injure/to hurt (knee)

COMMON DISEASES/ILLNESSES

To say we feel pain in a particular part of our body we put it before the verb ache - `pain', e.g. toothache, headache, stomachache, earache, backache, etc.

-itis occurs in some nouns which refer to an illness involving inflammation of some organs

tonsillitis arthritis meningitis

hepatitis bronchitis laryngitis

appendicitis dermatitis nephritis

- osis occurs in some nouns which refer to an illness

tuberculosis cirrhosis psychosis

avitaminosis multiple sclerosis osteoporosis

mycosis

OTHER ILLNESSES AND MEDICAL CONDITIONS

AIDS* glaucoma salmonella*

allergy (anaphylactic shock) haemophilia scarlet fever*

Alzheimer's disease influenza(the flu) * schizophrenia***

anaemia jaundice* scurvy

anorexia nervosa*** leprosy * shingles*

asthma leukaemia smallpox*

autism malaria* syphilis**

bipolar disorder*** measles* tapeworm

bulimia nervosa*** mumps* tetanus *

cancer muscular dystrophy toxic shock syndrome

coma narcolepsy typhoid

common cold* Parkinson's disease yellow fever*

coronary heart disease plague*

diabetes pneumonia

Ebola fever* rabies*

eczema rheumatoid arthritis

epilepsy rickets

food poisoning rubella*

* infectious disease

** veneral/sexually transmitted disease (VD/STD)

*** mental disorder

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