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What do we do at the doctor’s?

To complain to smb of smth

To consult a doctor about

To take one’s shirt off

To breathe in, to breathe out (deeply)

To have one’s eyes examined

To have a blood test taken

To have one’s eyesight tested

To have one’s chest X-rayed

To have one’s cardiogram taken

To have one’s tonsils removed

To have one’s height and weight measured

To be diagnosed with

To malinger / to feign a sickness; To be a malingerer

What do the doctors do?

To examine (carefully / thoroughly) / To give (a thorough / careful) examination; To examine for smth

To feel the pulse, To take the pulse

To sound the heart and lungs

To take the temperature,

To take smb’s blood pressure

To test smb’s eyesight

 

To diagnose an illness as smth

To make a (skilful, accurate) diagnosis

It sounds like … to me

By the sound of it, you caught a cold

Medications and their effects:

A medicine for To take medicines (pills, tablets) A painkiller Antibiotics Vitamins Half an aspirin Eye drops, nose drops To put in drops, to put drops into the nose Cough mixture To rub ointment in / To rub ointment into the skin To apply mustard plaster To use herbal remedies /medicinal herbs Vaccination, To vaccinate against smth   To ease / soothe / relieve / reduce / lessen a pain To kill / deaden a pain To reduce fever / to bring down the temperature To reduce the swelling To reduce the blood pressure To relieve symptoms To fight off infection To prevent complications To build up strength To speed up the recovery

 

Procedures of curing:

To grant (two-weeks’) sick-leave

To go on sick-leave

To be on sick-leave / on the sick-list

To be off work sick / To stay away from school

To keep to bed, to stay in bed / to have total bed rest Compare: To take to bed

To treat a person for a disease (with smth)

To cure a person of a disease, To cure an illness

A cure for a disease / A remedy for a disease

To put smb on treatment, To put smb on antibiotics

To follow the doctor’s instructions

 

Prescriptions

To prescribe some medicine (for smb) for an illness

To write out a prescription for

To prescribe a course of treatment, a course of injections

To take a teaspoonful 3 times a day after meals, last thing at night, before going to bed

To gargle with salt water

To follow the directions

Be careful not to exceed the prescribed dose

To avoid side-effects of the pill

At the chemist’s

The chemist’s / A drugstore

To take the prescription to the chemist’s

To have medicines on hand

Available on prescription

To have the prescription filled / made up at the chemist’s

To leave the prescription with the chemist

To come by for the prescription later

Recovering

The cut heals up / heals over

The swelling goes down

The pain goes away / wears off / eases off

To be out of pain

To be (well) on the road to recovery / on the way to recovery

To be on the mend

To recover from an illness

To recover after an operation

To get over / to overcome a disease

To make a recovery, To make a quick recovery, slow recovery, good recovery, total recovery

To burst with health

Dental problems:

To have toothache / To suffer from (bad) toothache

The tooth is bothering me

The tooth keeps me awake

The pain skips around

To have a loose filling which is about to drop out / fall out

To have a sore gum

The tooth is sore to the touch

The tooth is sensitive to heat and cold

The tooth needs seeing to, stopping, pulling

To have a cavity in the tooth and a (good deal of) decay around it

The decay has gone deeply into the tooth

The jaw swelled with toothache

To dread coming to see a dentist

To put off going to the dentist

To pluck up one’s courage

Dental equipment:

Dentist’s chair Electric drill A syringe A tongue depressor A pair of forceps A mirror on a long handle

 

Dental procedures:

To open one’s mouth wide

To look over / to examine one’s teeth Compare: to see to the teeth

To give an injection of a painkiller (of Novocaine)

To feel a prick on the gum

To drill a tooth

To put in a filling / To fill in a cavity

To last / hold long (The filling will last long)

To save a tooth

To have one’s teeth cleaned

To have one’s tooth X-rayed

To have one’s tooth filled / stopped

To have one’s tooth pulled / extracted / taken out, To have a tooth out

Painful, Ant: painless extraction

Dentist’s advice:

To take better care of one’s teeth

Not to put off going to the dentist

To have one’s teeth examined twice a year

To clean, to brush one’s teeth regularly

To use dental floss

To keep an eye on a diet

Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you

To have sound teeth


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