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    This document provides information about medical English vocabulary. It begins with dialogues and lists of terms related to health, illness, and disease. Key terms like disease, sickness, and illness are defined and distinguished. Common expressions related to illness are also listed. The document then defines vocabulary for describing common medical conditions, symptoms, injuries and treatments. Finally, it lists common medicines, medical equipment, and tools in English. In summary, the document is a reference for medical English terminology, defining important concepts and providing lists of terms.

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    Inglés Médico

    May, Ciudad del Este


    Dialogues and
    vocabulary list
    • Health, Illness and Disease
    Vocabulary
    • Illness expressions
    • Common Illnesses and Diseases in
    English
    • Medicine, Medical Equipments and
    Tools
    What’s the difference among…..?
    DISEASE SICKNESS ILLNESS
    Significa "enfermedad", "afección". Significa "enfermedad". Se usa Significa "enfermedad", "dolencia". Se
    Tiene generalmente el sentido de generalmente para referirnos a una usa generalmente para expresar un
    enfermedad grave, muchas veces enfermedad común de poca gravedad o dolor o achaque temporal (como un
    vinculada a una infección vírica o un estado de salud (enfermedad dolor de espalda, de cabeza,
    bacteriana (como una epidemia o crónica). Suele también usarse para etc.), generalmente de pequeña
    enfermedad contagiosa). Puede expresar que nos sentimos intensidad.
    aplicarse a personas, animales o "indispuestos" (mareos, náuseas, etc.). - Suele emplearse para referirnos al
    plantas. - En USA es más común utilizar concepto de "enfermedad" en
    - Suele emplearse cuando se "sickness" que "illness" para referirnos términos generales.
    especifica una parte del cuerpo: al concepto de "enfermedad". - Se emplea también para referirnos a
    Una enfermedad de la piel = A skin "Sick" = enfermo la locura o a la enfermedad
    disease. mental (mental illness).
    "Diseased" = infectado "Ill" = enfermo, mal, malo
    • Ebola is a nasty disease to get. • Health is not valued until sickness • Stress is nothing more than a
    • AIDS is a disease that is hard to comes. socially acceptable form of mental
    talk about. • Eastern medicine is not about curing illness.
    your sickness. It's about keeping you • People who cannot find time for
    well. recreation are obliged sooner or
    later to find time for illness.
    • Pain: feeling in your body when you have been hurt or when
    you are ill, sick.
    • Take an aspirin to relieve the pain.
    • Ache: continuous pain; feel a continuous pain.
    • I have a terrible headache, backache, stomach-ache.
    • Sore: painful (and often red) because of infection or because
    Health, a muscle has been used too much.
    • I have a sore throat, I mustn’t take that cold drink.
    Illness and • She says her stomach is still sore after the operation.
    • Heal: become healthy again; make something, somebody
    Disease healthy again, make somebody feel happy again.
    • As I see it will take a long time for your wounds to heal.
    Vocabulary • Cure: make somebody or something healthy again after an
    illness; make an illness go away.
    • He was seriously ill for a long time, but the
    doctor cured him at last.
    • Wound: an injury to part of the body, especially one in which
    a hole is made in the skin.
    • He was taken to hospital although his wounds didn’t
    seem too serious.
    • Bruise: a blue, brown or purple mark on
    the skin after somebody has fallen.
    • He was covered in bruises at the end
    of the football match.
    Health, • Scratch: rub your skin with your nails,
    Illness and usually because it’s itching; a mark or a
    small cut or injury made by scratching
    Disease • The cat continuously scratched itself
    behind the ear.
    Vocabulary • Pain killer: kind of medicine that takes
    away some or all of the discomfort of an
    illness or injury
    • I had such a horrible headache last
    night that I took two pain killers.
    Illness expressions
    • feel ill, sick • (go to) see a doctor
    • have a temperature • examine a patient
    • have a pain in your back, chest, waist, arm, • take, feel your pulse
    shoulder • take, measure your temperature
    • have a headache • diagnose an illness, disease
    • feel weak, dizzy • diagnose a condition, disorder
    • suffer from stomach cramps • prescribe medicine
    • have a black eye • make up a prescription
    • have a swollen, sprained ankle, wrist, foot • take someone to hospital
    • have a broken leg • undergo an examination, operation
    • have a fracture • prevent the spread of disease
    • burn, cut a finger • enhance, build immunity to a disease
    • sprain an ankle
    • be allergic to antibiotics
    • produce an allergic reaction
    • come down with a cold
    • be in bed with a cold
    • have a heart attack, stroke
    • suffer from asthma, malnutrition, diabetes
    • fight cancer, depression, addiction, alcoholism
    Common Illnesses and Diseases in English

    health salud
    illness enfermedad (en general)
    disease enfermedad (específica)
    asthma asma
    chickenpox varicela
    smallpox viruela
    heart attack infarto
    heart disease Cardiopatía
    hepatitis hepatitis
    ulcer úlcera
    flu gripe
    mumps paperas
    hepatitis hepatitis
    ulcer úlcera
    Medicine, Medical Equipments and Tools
    pill dressing
    tablet bandage
    capsule cast
    syrup brace
    ointment gauze
    cream plaster
    eye drops elastic tape
    injection thermometer
    tranquilizer stethoscope
    pain-killer syringe, forceps, scissors, oxygen mask,
    antiseptic test tube, vial, IV bag, blood pressure
    antifebrile monitor, crutches, wheelchair
    Thanks a lot for
    your attention!

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