100 lay words for body parts/functions/ common illness Flashcards
1
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belly / tummy
A
abdomen
2
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tummy tuck
A
plastic surgery on abdomen
3
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scrape / skinned knee / scratch
A
abrasion
4
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whiteheads / blackheads/ zits / spots /
A
acne
5
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Someone is hyper
someone won’t settle down
A
ADHD
or
unhappy / stressed / cannot relax
6
Q
a side effect
A
adverse effect
7
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going thin on top / losing hair
A
alopecia
8
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memory loss/ black out
A
losing memory
amnesia (short term/ long term)
losing consciousness
9
Q
her waters have broken
A
amniotic fluid
10
Q
speed
A
amphetamines
11
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iron deficiency
A
anaemia
12
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sphincter
A
anal sphincter
13
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have your tonsils/ appendix out
A
tonsillectomy / appendectomy
14
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still joints
be stiff
A
arthritis
15
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to catch something
A
to become infected
16
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something is going around
A
an infectious disease is prevalent
17
Q
waterworks
A
bladder / urinary tract
18
Q
a UTI
A
urinary tract infection
19
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STI
A
a sexually transmitted infection
20
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have a smear test
A
have cells taken from the cervix (neck of the womb) for early cancer / papilloma virus
21
Q
boob job
A
breast augmentation,
making breasts bigger by plastic surgery
22
Q
boobs / bust
A
breasts
23
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grinding your teeth at night
A
bruxism
24
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thrush
A
candida infection
25
athlete's foot
yeast infection of the foot
26
rotten tooth
caries
27
chemo
chemotherapy
28
sniffle
a cold
29
bruise
contusion
30
dental plaque
plaque on teeth
31
feeling down / out of sorts / blue / have the blues
depression
32
peeling skin
sunburn
desquamation
33
to cover up
to protect your skin from sun
34
got the runs / got the trots
loose stool
dodgy tummy
D and V
diarrhoea
| diarrhoea and vomiting
35
to pop a pill
to take a pill, possibly recreational drug
36
dry heaving
dry vomiting
37
being out of breath
dyspnoea
38
the morning after pill
pill taken after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy
39
nose bleed
epistaxis
40
burning up / feverish
febrile
41
a boil
carbuncle
42
privates/ down there
genitalia
43
receding gums / receding hairline
gum disease
| hair falling out / hair loss
44
a fit / an episode
have an eppy -
grand mal
petit mal
```
epileptic seizure (big is grand or small is petite)
lose temper
```
45
heavy bleeding
| heavy period
menorrhagia - can be dangerous
46
to come on
to be late
to skip a period
to menstruate / to have a late period / to miss a period
47
to spit up blood
blood comes out of mouth hemoptysis
48
piles / bum grapes
haemorrhoids
49
bad breath / stinky breath
halitosis
50
seeing things
hallucinating
51
He has shaking hands
He has hand tremors
52
good cholesterol
HDL
| High density lipids
53
the change
the change of life
go through the change
menopause
and - mid life crisis
54
to be bunged up
constipation or blocked nose
55
to soil yourself
bowel incontinence
56
to wet yourself
urinary incontinence
57
nits
head lice
58
sunstroke / heatstroke
dizziness/sickness from exposure to sun and heat
59
to come round
to wake up after losing consciousness or anaesthesia
60
slipped disc
herniated disc
61
chickenpox
herpes zoster / varicella
62
hairiness
hirsutism
63
test tube baby
IVF in vitro fertilisation
64
it's catching
infectious
65
puffer
inhaler
66
guts
intestines
67
high / tipsy / wasted / mashed / smashed / off your skull / slaughtered
different words for drunk
68
skull
cranium
69
get it out of your system / to throw up
to vomit
70
racing heart
fast heart beat
71
the pill / be on the pill
the contraceptive pill
72
hunchback
hump on back
73
voice box
larynx
74
A teenage boy's voice has broken
when a male's voice deepens in puberty
75
to loosen someone up
to give someone a drug or drink to relax
sometimes of laxative
76
JBK just bloody knackered! cream-crackered
knackered / don't feel like doing anything / low / out of sorts / don't feel myself
to be tired or have a low mood/motivation/ depression
77
sex drive / libido
desire to have sex
78
to go off something
to lose interest in something
79
baby teeth / milk teeth
deciduous teeth / teeth that children regrow
80
wisdom teeth
teeth that appear in your 30s
81
do a poo / number 2/have a a BM / a movement / move your bowels / pass water
pass a stool
| urinate
82
short sighted / long sighted
two kinds of eye problems
83
cataracts
growth over the eye
84
snot
nasal mucus
85
pick your nose / skin / spots
touch / try to remove something from your nose/ skin
86
morning sickness
sickness in early pregnancy
87
pinched nerve / trapped nerve
nerve entrapment syndrome
88
pull a muscle
common sporting injury
89
twist ankle
90
chubby / podgy / puppy fat / tubby
a little overweight
91
I'm parched
I'm thirsty
92
vegetable / vegetative state
persistent vegetative state
93
induced coma
a deliberate coma to manage a critically sick patient.
94
seeing stars
photopsia / seeing lights - often with dizziness
95
pubes
pubic hair
96
zap something
use X-rays to treat something
97
something comes and goes
flares up / sporadic
98
ooze out / squidge out / seep out
pus comes out of something
99
shin
bone at front of leg
100
windpipe
trachea
