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Vocabulary - Health and Health Care

This document provides a list of vocabulary related to health and healthcare. It includes ways to describe being ill or feeling okay, common health problems, health advice, medicines, medical treatments, medical professionals, and places associated with healthcare. Key terms include "I'm ill", "I feel good", "headache", "exercise regularly", "medicine", "operation", "doctor", "hospital", and "ward".

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Vocabulary - Health and Health Care

This document provides a list of vocabulary related to health and healthcare. It includes ways to describe being ill or feeling okay, common health problems, health advice, medicines, medical treatments, medical professionals, and places associated with healthcare. Key terms include "I'm ill", "I feel good", "headache", "exercise regularly", "medicine", "operation", "doctor", "hospital", and "ward".

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Vocabulary - Health and Health Care

This is a list of vocabulary items related to health and health care


How to say you are ill
I'm ill.
I feel really rough.
I'm shattered (meaning tired out or exhausted)
I'm on my last legs (to be very tired, especially after a lot of physical activity or work. It also
means to be going to die soon - 'the old man is on his last leg').
I feel / look poorly / peaky / rough / bloody awful.
I feel / look like death warmed up (very ill or appearing very sickly - Poor thing! She looks like
death warmed up)
How to say you are feeling OK
I am alive and kicking (to continue to be well, healthy or successful - Don't worry about your
grandfather; he is alive and kicking)
I feel good (used to talk about emotional state)
I feel great / well
He is a picture of (good) health (to be in a very healthy condition - The doctor told him that he is
a picture of good health)
She is hale and hearty (to be in a good health - In spite of her old age, she looks hale and
hearty)
Health problems
I have a headache / toothache / backache / stomachache / earache...
I have a pain in my back / tooth / head...
I have a broken / sprained / twist an ankle / wrist.
I have a flu / cold / runny nose / fever / high temperature / sore throat
I feel sick. I'm feeling nauseous.
I have a bruise / cut / graze / wound.
Health advice:
Exercise regularly.
Eat healthy food.
Brush your teeth regularly.
Sleep early (= don't stay up late!)
Have regular medical check up.
Relax.
Go on a diet.
Medicines
eye drops
cream
syringe
syrup
bandage
dose (of medicine)
drugs
shot / injection (give some an injection)
medicine (take medicine)
pain-killer
pill
plaster
tablet
tranquilizer
Treatment
check-up
diagnosis
operation / surgery
prescription
People
ophthalmologist
dentist
doctor / physician
general practitioner (GP)
midwife
nurse
patient
specialist
surgeon
Places
doctor's
pharmacy / drugstore /chemist's
hospital
operating theater
surgery (medical operation)
waiting room
ward (a geriatric/maternity/psychiatric ward)

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