Collins-Unit 2 - Health

addiction (addictions)

NOUN is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.

allergy (allergies)

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

cancer (cancers)

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

Dehydration

UNCOUNTABLE NOUN you lose too much water from your body

disease (diseases)

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

infection (infections)

NOUN is a disease caused by germs or bacteria.

obesity

UNCOUNTABLE NOUN Someone suffering from ..... is extremely fat.

stroke (strokes)

NOUN a blood vessel in their brain bursts or becomes blocked, which may kill them or make them unable to move one side of their body.

administer (administers, administering, administered)

VERB If a doctor or nurse administers a drug, they give it to a patient.

admit (admits, admitting, admitted)

VERB If someone is ..... to hospital they are taken into hospital for treatment and kept there until they are well enough to go home.

diagnose (diagnoses, diagnosing, diagnosed))

VERB If someone or something is ......... as having a particular illness or problem, their illness or problem is identified.

discharge (discharges, discharging, discharged)

VERB When someone is ..... from hospital, they are officially allowed to leave, or told they must leave.

examine (examines, examining, examined)

VERB If a doctor examines you, he or she looks at your body, feels it, or does simple tests in order to check how healthy you are.

screen (screens, screening, screened)

VERB To screen for a disease means to examine people to make sure that they do not have it.

vaccinate (vaccinates, vaccinating, vaccinated)

VERB A vaccine is a harmless form of the germs that cause a particular disease. If a person or animal is vaccinated, they are given a vaccine, usually by injection, to prevent them getting that disease