NAMA: Gabryel Owen

Lumbanbatu
Matkul : Basic English
PRACTICE 2

Make 15 two-word expressions connected with medicine by combining

words from the two lists: A and B. Match each expression with the
appropriate phrase. Use each word once. The first one has been done for
you as an example.

Answer :
1. Allergic -> reaction
2. Balanced -> diet
3. Bedside -> manner
4. Biological -> clock
5. Bone -> marrow
6. Brain -> death
7. Clinical -> trial
8. Digestive -> system
9. General -> an aesthetic
10. General -> practitioner
11. Heart -> attack
12. Malignant -> tumor
13. Plastic -> surgary
14. Primary -> tooth
15. Surgical -> intervention

1. A condition in which the heart has a reduced blood supply because one of
the arteries becomes blocked

By a blood clot, causing myocardial ischaemia and myocardial infarction heart attack

2. A substance given to make someone lose consciousness so that a major

surgical operation can be

Carried out General Anaesthetic

3. Soft tissue in cancellous bone Bone Marrow

4. The treatment of disease or other condition by surgery Surgical Intervention

 5. Any one of the first twenty teeth which develop in children between about six
months and two-and-a-

Half years of age, and are replaced by the permanent teeth at around the age of six Primary
Tooth

6. Surgery to repair damaged or malformed parts of the body Plastic Surgery

7. A condition in which the nerves in the brain stem have died, and the person can
be certified as dead,

Although the heart may not have stopped beating Brain Death

8. The way in which a doctor behaves towards a patient, especially a patient who is
in bed Bedside

Manner

9. An effect produced by a substance to which a person has an allergy, such as

sneezing or a skin rash

Alergic Reaction

10. A trial carried out in a medical laboratory on a person or on tissue from a person

11. A tumour which is cancerous and can grow again or spread into other parts of
the body, even

Removed surgically ClinicalTrial

12. A doctor who provides first-line medical care for all types of illness to people
who live locally, refers

Them to hospital if necessary and encourages health promotion Malignant Tumour

13. The rhythm of daily activities and bodily processes such as eating, defecating
or sleeping, frequently

Controlled by hormones, which repeats every twenty-four hours Biological Clock

14. The set of organs such as the stomach, liver and pancreas which are associated
with the digestion of

Food Digestive System

15. A diet that provides all the nutrients needed in the correct proportions Balanced Diet
In Column A of this table there are 25 nouns relating to medicine. For each of
the nouns decide whether the correct plural form is in Column B or Column C
and then circle it

The first question has been done for you as an example.

Column A Column B Column C

1. stratum stratums strata
2. foot foots feet
3. fibula fibulae fibulas
4. glomerulus glomerulae glomeruli
5. abscess abscesses abscessi
6. joint jointes joints
7. bulla bullae bullas
8. testis testises testes
9. septum septa septums
10. oesophagus oesophaguses oesophagi
11. diagnosis diagnoses diagnosises
12. humerus humeruses humeri
13. syringe syringes syringae
14. acetabulum acetabula acetabulums
15. larva larvae larvi
16. chorda chordas chordae
17. varix varices varixi
18. fungus fungi funguses
19. ganglion ganglions ganglia
20. villus villi villae
21. atrium atria atriums
22. pons pontes ponses
23. ovum ovums ova
24. bout bouts boutae
25. cortex cortexes cortices
The italicised words in the sentences in Column A are all nouns. What are the
adjective forms? Complete the sentences in Column B using the correct
adjective forms.

Column A Column B

1. The surgeons operated to repair The surgeons operated to repair

the the
defect on the patient's heart valve. patient's difective heart valve

2. His diet has a calcium deficiency. His diet is calcium dificient-…

3. She has a physical dependence She is physically dependent on

on amphetamines amphetamines

4. The doctor noted an excess of bile The doctor noted an excessive

in the patient’s blood amount of bile in the patients
blood

5. An attack of hypoglycaemia can be A hypoglycaemic attack can be

prevented bye eating glucose or a prevented by eating glucose or
lump of sugar when feeling faint. lump of sugar when feeling
faint

6. The vaccine should give immunity The vaccine should make you
to immune to tuberculosis
tuberculosis.
 7. They have periods of complete They have periods when they are
inactivity. Completely inactive…

8. The pain in his foot is so great that His foot is so painful that he
he can hardly walk
can hardly walk.

9. I injured my spine in the crash. I suffered spinal injuries in the

crash

10. She complained of stiffness in the She complained of stiff joints

joints.

Verb nouns

1. Administer. A drug

2. analyse. A sample
3. Arrange. An appointment
4. Burp A baby

5. catch A cold

6. Detect. An improvement

7. Discontinue The treatment

8. Ease The pain

9. Reist Some infections

10. Prescribe Antibiotics

Exercise 2.

Complete these sentences using the partnerships from Exercise 1. You may have to make some
changes to fit the grammar of the sentences. The first one has been done for you as an example

1. The doctor will administer a drug to the patient.

2. She was prescribed antibiotics.

3. As soon as the patient reported severe side-effects, the doctor discontinued the treatment.

4. I've caught a cold from one of my colleagues at work.

5. The laboratory analysed a sample of the food and found traces of bacteria.

6. A healthy body can resist some infections.

7. I would like to arrange an appointment with the dental hygienist for 10.00am tomorrow.
8. She had an injection to ease the pain in her leg.

9. The health visitor advised the new parents to burp the baby after feeding.

10. The nurses detected an improvement in the patient's condition.