Unit 54. Health: ilness and disease

Question 1

pain

Answer 1

If something pains you, it causes you to feel sad and upset

Question 2

ache

Answer 2

to have a continuous pain that is unpleasant but not very strong

Question 3

hurt

Answer 3

to feel pain in a part of your body, or to injure someone or cause them pain

Question 4

fall over

fell over, fallen over

Answer 4

If someone falls over, they fall to the ground

Question 5

injure

Answer 5

to hurt or cause physical harm to a person or animal

Question 6

painful

Answer 6

causing emotional or physical pain

Question 7

painless

Answer 7

causing no physical pain

Question 8

fill

Answer 8

to put a substance into a hole in a tooth to repair it

Question 9

cavity

Answer 9

a hole in a tooth

Question 10

lung

Answer 10

either of the two organs in the chest with which people and some animals breathe

Question 11

heart

Answer 11

the organ in your chest that sends the blood around your body

Question 12

stomach

Answer 12

an organ in the body where food is digested, or the soft front part of your body just below the chest

Question 13

liver

Answer 13

a large organ in the body that cleans the blood and produces bile, or this organ from an animal used as meat

Question 14

cancer

Answer 14

a serious disease that is caused when cells in the body grow in a way that is uncontrolled and not normal, killing normal cells and often causing death

Question 15

heart attack

Answer 15

a serious medical condition in which the heart does not get enough blood, causing great pain and often leading to death

Question 16

hepatitis

Answer 16

a serious disease of the liver. There are three main types of hepatitis: hepatitis A, B, and C.

Question 17

asthma

Answer 17

a medical condition that makes breathing difficult by causing the air passages to become narrow or blocked

Question 18

headache

Answer 18

a pain you feel inside your head

Question 19

earache

Answer 19

a pain in the inside part of your ear

Question 20

backache

Answer 20

a pain in your back

Question 21

stomachache

Answer 21

pain in your stomach

Question 22

toothache

Answer 22

pain caused by something being wrong with one of your teeth

Question 23

hurt

Answer 23

emotional pain

Question 24

pain

Answer 24

a feeling of physical suffering caused by injury or illness

Question 25

ache

Answer 25

a continuous pain that is unpleasant but not very strong

Question 26

medicine

Answer 26

a substance, especially in the form of a liquid or a pill, that is a treatment for illness or injury

Question 27

prescription

Answer 27

a piece of paper on which a doctor writes the details of the medicine or drugs that someone needs

Question 28

chemist

Answer 28

a person whose job is to prepare and sell medicines and other goods in a shop

Question 29

pollen

Answer 29

a powder, produced by the male part of a flower, that causes the female part of the same type of flower to produce seeds. It is carried by insects or the wind

Question 30

allergic

Answer 30

caused by an allergy

Question 31

virus

Answer 31

a disease caused by a virus

Question 32

vomit

Answer 32

to empty the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Question 33

runny

Answer 33

If your nose is runny, it is producing more mucus than usual, usually because you are ill

Question 34

sore

Answer 34

painful and uncomfortable because of injury, infection, or too much use

Question 35

hangover

Answer 35

a feeling of illness after drinking too much alcohol

Question 36

sick

Answer 36

physically or mentally ill; not well or healthy

Question 37

diarrhea

Answer 37

an illness in which the body’s solid waste is more liquid than usual and comes out of the body more often

Question 38

hay fever

Answer 38

an illness like a cold, caused by pollen

Question 39

flu

Answer 39

a common infectious illness that causes fever and headache

Question 40

cold

Answer 40

a common infection, especially in the nose and throat, that causes you to cough and sneeze and your nose to run (= drip liquid) or feel blocked

Question 41

temperature

Answer 41

the measured amount of heat in a place or in the body

Question 42

blow your nose

Answer 42

to force air from your lungs and through your nose to clear it

Question 43

sore throat

Answer 43

a condition in which your throat is red and feels painful, especially when you swallow

Question 44

cough

Answer 44

the act of coughing, or the sound this makes

Question 45

cough

Answer 45

to force air out of your lungs through your throat with a short, loud sound

Question 46

sneeze

Answer 46

an act or sound of sneezing

Question 47

sneeze

Answer 47

When you sneeze, air and often small drops of liquid suddenly come out of your nose and mouth in a way you cannot control

Question 48

disease

Answer 48

illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by an accident

Question 49

illness

Answer 49

the state of being ill

Question 50

health

Answer 50

the condition of the body and the degree to which it is free from illness, or the state of being well