English Vocabulary in Use Advanced - Unit 53: Medical language | Quizlet

low-dose

measured amount of medicine that is relatively small

You should take l_____-d____ aspirin twice a day.

asthma

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

an a______ sufferer

She might have an a______ attack.

past history

record of medical conditions a person has experienced:

I have a p____ h_____ of the honey allergy.

disorder

an illness of the mind or body:

a blood d______

The family have a history of mental d_______.

gastrointestinal disease

illness of the stomach or digestive passages:

/ˌɡæstrəʊɪnˈtestɪnl/

She might have a kind of g_______ d_____ .

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bowel

the long tube that carries solid waste from the stomach out of the body:

He has trouble with his b_______ .

adverse

unwanted results:

So far the drug is thought not to have any a_______ effects.

Some people have a______ reaction to additives and preservatives used in many foods.

stroke

a sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the brain, sometimes causing a loss of the ability to move particular parts of the body:

She suffered/had a s_______ that left her unable to speak.

condition

any of different types of diseases:

I do not want to suffer from a heart/skin c________ .

a medical c________

exceed

to be greater than a number or amount, or to go past an allowed limit:

The final cost should not e_________ $5,000.

duration

as long as something lasts:

I guess we're stuck with each other for the d_________ of the journey.

side effect

an unpleasant effect of a drug that happens in addition to the main effect:

Does this drug have any s_____ e________?

allergic reaction

reaction caused by an allergy:

Hay fever is an a_______ r_______ to pollen grasses and to trees such as the silver birch.

particle

a very small amount of something:

She wouldn't give me even the slightest p______ of information about what she'd been doing.

stools

a piece of excrement:

Aside from worm numbers, egg output also depends on processes such as fecal output and s______ consistency, which are likely to differ systematically between individuals.

He told the doctor he had been passing bloody s________ .

nausea

the feeling that you are going to vomit:

Signs of the illness include fever, n________, and vomiting.

vomiting

the act of emptying the contents of the stomach through the mouth:

There are a range of symptoms, including headache and v________ .

disorientation

not knowing where you are:

I had a feeling of d___________.

symptom

any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a particular disease:

He's complaining of all the usual flu s_________s - a high temperature, headache, and so on.

He's been HIV-positive for six years, but just recently he's started to develop the s_________s of AIDS.

symptomatic

showing symptoms of a particular disease:

A doctor who had treated an Ebola patient may have been s__________ when he boarded the plane.

diagnose

medical meaning = identify what illness a patient has:

The specialist d_________ cancer.

prognosis

medical meaning = how experts expect an illness to develop:

The p_________ after the operation was for a full recovery.

ailing /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/

weak and suffering from illness:

He's visiting his a_______ father.

rash

a lot of small red spots on the skin:

I've got an itchy r____ all over my chest.

fever

high temperature:

He's got a headache and a slight f________ .

fever pitch

a point of very high intensity:

Life cannot go on at that f______ p______ for ever.

jaundiced /ˈdʒɑːn.dɪst/

yellow-looking skin because of a liver problem:

He was j_______ from liver disease.

scar

mark left on skin after an injury such as a cut:

Harry Potter had a s_____ on his forehead.

infect

pass on an illness:

The ward was full of children i_____ with TB.

pulse

regular beating of heart:

The child's p_______ was strong/weak.

have one's finger on the pulse

to be/stay familiar with the most recent changes or improvements:

The situation changes daily, so you need to h_____ your f______ o_ t___ p_____.

carry the scars of

to still suffer emotional pain from something unpleasant that happened in the past

a rash of

a large number of unpleasant events of the same type:

There has been a r____ o_ robberies/accidents/complaints in the last two months.