healthcare

Question 1

plaster

Answer 1

Band-Aid a small piece of sticky cloth or plastic that you used to cover and protect a cut in the skin

Put a plater on it so that it doesn’t get infected.

Question 2

Jab

Answer 2

an injection of something into your body to prevent ilness

You’ll need some jabs if you are going to Egypt.

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Question 3

Scald

Answer 3

To burn the skin with boiling liquid or steam

burn, boil

I dropped a pan of boiling water and scalded my leg

Question 4

lethargy

Answer 4

the feeling of having little energy or of being unable or unwilling to do anything:

inactivity, apathy, sloth, laziness

Symptoms include loss of appetite, lethargy, and vomiting (kusma).

Question 5

contagious

Answer 5

A contagious disease can be caught by touching someone who has the disease or a piece of infected clothing:

The infection is highly contagious, so don’t let anyone else use your towel.
Keep him out of school until he’s not contagious anymore.

Question 6

fatigue

Answer 6

(formal) extreme tiredness:

exhaustion, weariness, lassitude, langour
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She was suffering from fatigue.
The journey had fatigued him.

Question 7

vomit

Answer 7

to empty the contents of the stomach through the mouth:

throw up, eject, bring up

He came home drunk and vomited all over the kitchen floor.