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

Hospital terminology

An in-patient, Ant: an out-patient A casualty To call the ambulance To take to hospital To check in hospital Ant: to discharge from hospital

A case history An interesting case A (surgical) ward Intensive therapy / Intensive care unit To make rounds / To go one’s rounds

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