Terms for Persons with Disease, Disorders, or Diabilities

Question 1

AIDS victim, stroke victim

Answer 1

person with AIDS, person who had a stroke

Question 2

alcoholic, addict, user, abuser

Answer 2

she was addicted, people with opiate addiction, he misused drugs and alcohol

Question 3

asthmatics

Answer 3

patient with asthma, asthma group

Question 4

the blind, the visually impaired

Answer 4

blind people, those with visual impairment

Question 5

confined (bound) to a wheelchair

Answer 5

uses a wheelchair

Question 6

cripple, lame, deformed

Answer 6

physically disabled

Question 7

the deaf

Answer 7

deaf persons, deaf adults

Question 8

diabetics

Answer 8

persons with diabetes, study participants in the diabetes group

Question 9

the disabled, the handicapped

Answer 9

persons with disability

Question 10

disabled child, mentally ill person, retarded adult

Answer 10

child with a disability, person with mental illness, adult with intellectual disability

Question 11

epileptic

Answer 11

person affected by epilepsy; patient with epilepsy

Question 12

the infirm

Answer 12

patients with long-term illness