10. health and illness Flashcards
blood vessel
your blood vessels are the tubes (veins and arteries)
which carry blood around your body
blood vessels in his brain had been damaged
donor
a donor is someone who gives some of their blood or part of their body to be used for medical operations. A blood donor gives blood, and an organ donor gives something such as a kidney or a liver
Collocates: a blood donor | an organ donor |
a donor card
drip
goteo. A drip is a tube that feeds medicine directly into
someone’s body
drop
drops are medicine that you drop into your eyes, ears, or
nose
I bought some eye drops because my eyes were really
sore | try these ear drops if the pain hasn’t gone away
yet | the doctor gave her nose drops to take three times
a day
excruciating
extremely painful
filling
empaste. if you have a filling in a tooth, a dentist has put a small
amount of metal or plastic in it to protect it from breaking
or rotting
I went to the dentist to have a filling | she never had
a filling until she was in her 30s | when he opened his
mouth, you could see he had several fillings
graft
injerto. a graft is a piece of healthy skin or bone that is put onto
a damaged area of someone’s body so that it will grow
there and repair it
Collocates: a skin/bone graft
mercifully ( adv)
mercifully /ˈmɜː(r)sɪf(ə)li/ Adverb
mercy is forgiving someone or treating them gently
instead of punishing or hurting them. Someone who is
merciful shows mercy to someone. You use mercifully to
say you are glad that a situation is not as bad as it might
have been, or that someone has treated you gently
instead of punishing or hurting you. Compasión
undergo
someterse a, sufrir
relapse / rilaps/
a relapse is when someone who has slightly recovered
from a serious illness becomes seriously ill again. Recaída
remission
remisión. if a patient with a serious disease is in remission, or if the
disease is in remission, the disease stops developing for
a while and the patient recovers slightly
bout
episodio.he suffered recurrent bouts of depression and anxiety |
I’m just recovering from a bout of flu | her education was
interrupted by frequent bouts of illness
scarring
scarring is visible damage to the skin that remains after a
wound has healed. Cicatriz
swell
get bigger. Hincharse. my knee swelled up straight away | my ankles swell
when I’m on a plane | I could feel my foot starting to swell
clench
tensar, contraer,apretar
clutch/ clach/
if you clutch something, you hold on to it very firmly. Aferrar
because you do not want to lose it. If you clutch at
something, you suddenly take hold of it. Aferrar . Clucth purse ( bolso de mano)
dwell on /duel/
I’ll often dwell on things, and that makes me feel a bit down
prescribe
if a doctor prescribes you a particular medicine or
treatment, he or she says that you should have that
medicine or treatment. A prescription is the piece
of paper from the doctor that tells the chemist what
medicines to give you
Collocates: prescribe someone something
lump
a mass under the skin, sometimes a sign of serious illness (bulto)
doctor’s surgery
a place where the doctor visits you
A&E
the room or department in a hospital where people go if they are injured or suddenly become ill
undergo
to go through an experience ( sufrir)
joint
a place in the body where two bones come together
swell up
a part of your body becomes bigger because of an illness or injury
anaesthetic
a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations
scan
to direct x-rays or other energy at (a body or body part) in order to produce an image
rod
a thin straight piece or bar of material, such as metal or wood
fast
to abstain from food.
stitches
puntos
drip
administration of blood, plasma, saline, or sugar solutions, usually intravenously, a drop at a time
toy with
to consider an idea
get round to
encontrar tiempo para hacer algo. to manage to (do something)
start (after planning to do sth for a long time)
numb
without feeling ( entumecido) unable to feel
dose up
to give medicine to
clamp
sujetar con una abrazadera
sore
a feeling of pain or discomfort
aftercare
after medical treatment ( cuidados post-tratamiento)
drill
taladro
underpin
respaldar
walkout
huelga
turnover
facturación
mix-up
confusión
breakthrough
major progress or advance
breach
to break it ( a rule, agreement, contract).
upbringing
crianza. He’d a very strict upbringing
