Ready for CAE Ss p 93. Health. Extra Speaking. More Vocabulary
Transcript of Ready for CAE Ss p 93. Health. Extra Speaking. More Vocabulary
Ready for CAE p 93. Health. Extra Speaking
MORE Useful Language:
- Tickle: a slightly uncomfortable feeling in a part of your body: to have a tickle in your throat (= that makes you want to cough)
- Caesarean: [sɪˈzeəriən] an emergency Caesarean. The baby was born by Caesarean section. She had to have a Caesarean
- Medical profile: cuadro clínico.
- I have a sore throat
- Runny: (of your nose or eyes) producing a lot of liquid, for example when you have a cold.
- Hay fever: allergic to pollen (allergic (to sth) having an allergy to sth: I like cats but unfortunately I’m allergic to them.
- Antihistamine: [ˌæntiˈhɪstəmiːn] a drug used to treat allergies, especially hay fever.
- Chickenpox: varicela
- Diagnose sb (as / with) (sth) diagnose sth (as sth) to say exactly what an illness or the cause of a problem is: The test is used to diagnose a variety of diseases. The illness was diagnosed as cancer. He has recently been diagnosed with angina [ænˈdʒaɪnə] angina pectoris [ˈpektərɪs]. He was diagnosed (as) a diabetic when he was 64.
- Itch: to have an uncomfortable feeling on your skin that makes you want to scratch; to make your skin feel like this.
I itch all over. Does the rash itch? This sweater really itches.
Itchy: adjective: having or producing an itch on the skin: an itchy nose / rash. I feel itchy all over.
(Get / have) itchy feet(informal) to want to travel or move to a different place; to want to do sth different
- Wrist: muñeca
- Homeopathy [ˌhəʊmiˈɒpəθi] (BrE also homoeo-) noun[U] a system of treating diseases or conditions using very small amounts of the substance that causes the disease or condition
- Homeopathic (BrE also homoeo-) adjective: homeopathic medicines / remedies / treatments
- Acupuncture: [ˈækjuˌpʌŋktʃə]
- WHO: World Health Organization
- Well-being: noun general health and happiness: emotional / physical / psychological well-being. To have a sense of well-being. State of well-being
- GP: (BrE) a doctor who is trained in general medicine and who works in the local community, not in a hospital. (abbreviation for ‘general practitioner’). Family doctor: Go and see your GP as soon as possible. There are four GPs in our local practice.
- Myopia: [maɪ ˈəʊp iə]the inability to see things clearly when they are far away
SYN near-sightedness(US), short-sightedness(UK),
Myopic: a myopic child / eye
- Life expectancy (also expectation of life) noun[U, C] the number of years that a person is likely to live; the length of time that sth is likely to exist or continue for
- Swell swelled swollen: a swollen hand
- Food poisoning: an illness of the stomach caused by eating food that contains harmful bacteria
- Gastro-enteritis [ˌgæstrəʊˌentəˈraɪtɪs]noun[U] (medical) an illness of the stomach and other food passages that causes diarrhoea [ˌdaɪəˈrɪə] and vomiting.
- Amoxicillin [əˌmɒksɪˈsɪlɪn]
- Stretcher noun: a long piece of strong cloth with a pole on each side, used for carrying sb who is sick or injured and who cannot walk: He was carried off on a stretcher