Health and Treatment Vocabulary

Flashcards covering health problems and treatment verbs.

Addiction

The condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.

Allergy

When you become ill or get a rash when you eat, smell, or touch something that does not normally make people ill.

Cancer

A serious disease in which cells in a person's body increase rapidly in an uncontrolled way, producing abnormal growths.

Dehydration

When you lose too much water from your body.

Disease

An illness that affects people, animals, or plants, for example one which is caused by bacteria or infection.

Infection

A disease caused by germs or bacteria.

Obesity

Being extremely fat.

Stroke

When a blood vessel in the brain bursts or becomes blocked.

Administer

To give a drug to a patient.

Admit

To take someone into hospital for treatment.

Diagnose

To identify someone's illness or problem.

Discharge

To officially allow someone to leave the hospital.

Examine

To look at someone's body, feel it, or do simple tests in order to check how healthy they are.

Screen

To examine people to make sure that they do not have a disease.

Vaccinate

To give a vaccine to prevent someone from getting a disease.