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Healthy and happy – active Vocabulary

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Diseases:

Disease, ailment, illness, sickness, malady

 

An allergy (to) Appendicitis Asthma AIDS Bronchitis Cancer A chill A cold Chickenpox Concussion Diarrhoea Diabetes A fever (The) flu / influenza Food poisoning Hay fever 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; 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

Asking about health:

To ask after smb: How is N. keeping? How is N these days? What’s wrong with N.? What’s the trouble with N? Where does it hurt? What seems to be the matter? To show sympathy:   I am sorry to hear that! Oh, no! Poor old N.! How upsetting / awful! I know how it feels. Give him my regards! We wish you speedy recovery! To give advice:   Why don’t you lie down? Would you like an aspirin? Would you like me to call the doctor? Let me know if there is anything I can do. Tell him to take things easy. I hope he soon gets over it / feels better

 

Doctors:

Doctor / physician/ medical man General Practitioner (GP) Surgeon Optician Paediatrician / children’s doctor Gynaecologist / women’s doctor Psychiatrist Dentist Midwife Nurse Pharmacist

Making an appointment with a doctor:

To call a doctor

To make / fix / to ask for an appointment with smb

To have an appointment with smb,

To keep an appointment Ant: To break / cancel / miss an appointment

To be by appointment only (Consultation is by appointment only)

Surgery hours are from 9 to 5.

To check one’s schedule

To be fully booked

To fit smb in

 

To consult / to see a doctor

To go for a check-up / to have a check-up

Annual check-up

To come at the appointed time

To arrive at the waiting-room

Surgery / Consulting-room


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