Lesson 14 Flashcards
Fertilized
Made to start developing into new life
Embryo
Developing baby
Implants
Fixed itself
Womb / uterus
Organ inside the mother where the fertilized egg develops into a baby; uterus is a more medical word than womb
Conceive
Become pregnant
Fertility drugs
Drugs that help a woman to become pregnant
IVF
In Vitro Fertilization: process that fertilizes a woman’s egg in laboratory
Foetus
What the embryo developing in the uterus is known as from eight weeks onward
Placenta
Organ connecting the developing baby to the mother and giving it food
Go into labour
Go into the last stage of pregnancy where the womb starts the process of pushing the baby out of the body
Be induced
Be helped medically to start the process of labour
Give birth
Have her baby
Midwife
Nurse who specialized in helping women when they are giving birth
Deliver
Help the mother to give birth
Caesarean section
Operation in which the mother’s abdomen and womb are cut open to allow the baby to be removed
Ripe old age
Living well into old age;
Late
Now dead
Pensioner
Elderly person, receiving an old pension from the state
Sheltered accommodation
Special housing, usually for old people, where care staff also live
Doddery
Weak and unable to walk well, usually because of old age
Gaga
Unable to think clearly because of old age
Have all her wits about her
Is still able to think and react quickly
Coffin
Box where the dead person is put
Wake
Gathering of family and friends after a funeral
Will
Legal document saying what is to happen to your possessions after your death
Ashes
Remains of a body after cremation
Mourning
Expressing sadness after someone’s death
Cremation
Service at a place called a crematorium where a dead body is burnt
Scattered
Spread around
Condolence
Sympathy and sadness for the family or close friends of a person who has recently died, or an expression of this, especially in written form
Pass away / pass on / pass over
Euphemism for “to die”
Be at death’s door / be on your last legs
Colloquial expressions for being close to death
Fatalities
Dead people
Perished
Died
Slaughtered
Violently killed
The deceased
The dead person
To bequeath
To leave something in a will
To inherit
To receive something from someone who has died
To die intestate
To die without having made a will
Conception
Time when sperm and egg meet and a baby starts to form
