Vocabulary related to Health and Care

Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4 Task 5 Rating Form

Task 1 The Language of Emotion Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word.

If things ✘ rejuvenate you, it makes you feel or look young again. If you ✘ rejuvenate an organization or system, you make it more lively and more efficient for example by introducing new ideas and new methods.
If things ✘ disorientate you, you no longer know in what direction anything is, including the direction that you have come from.
When you are ✘ elated, you are extremely happy and excited; exhilarated.
If people ✘ exasperate you, they annoy you and make you feel rather frustrated or upset.
Something or someone that is ✘ inspiring is exciting and makes you feel enthusiastic and interested.
Something that is ✘ invigorating makes you feel more energetic; refreshing.
If you ✘ antagonize someone, you make them feel angry or hostile, towards you.
If you are ✘ relieved, you feel pleased because something unpleasant is not true, is not as bad as you had feared, has not happened or is no longer happening.
If you are ✘ disillusioned with something, you are disappointed because it is not as good as you had expected it to be.
If activities ✘ exhilarate you, they give you a strong feeling of happiness and excitement; thrill.

Source: Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary. 1987. London: HarperCollins Publishers.

Task 2 Collocations on Health Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate phrase.

A ✘ maternity ward is a room/area in a hospital which has beds for women who are pregnant.
If someone has a ✘ heart attack, their heart begins to beat very irregularly or stops completely.
✘ Infant mortality refers to the death of children under the age of one year.
✘ Premature ageing is getting older earlier than usual or earlier than people expect.
✘ High salt intake the act of taking a lot of salt into your body.
✘ Chest pain a feeling of great discomfort in the top part of the front part of your body where your ribs, lungs and heart are.
✘ Blood pressure is the amount of force at which the blood flows around your body.
✘ A/an tanning salon a is place, possibly where beauticians or hairdressers work, where you can lie on a bed with special lights so that your skin can turn darker than usual and you look as though you have been in the sun.
Your ✘ immune system consists of all the organs and processes in your body which protect you from illness and infection.
✘ Heart surgery involves cutting open a patient so that a surgeon can repair a damaged part of a vital organ.
✘ Omega 3 oils refers to an unsaturated fatty acid of a kind occurring chiefly in fish oils, with 3 double bonds at particular positions in the hydrocarbon chain.
The ✘ flu virus is a kind of germ that can cause influenza.

Task 3 Words on Health Care Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate phrase.

✘ Conventional medicine refers to traditional medicine in places like the UK.
✘ Alternative medicine refers to any of the medical therapies that are not regarded as orthodox/traditional/ordinary by the medical profession, such as herbalism, naturopathy and crystal healing.
✘ Palliative treatment refers to medicine or treatment that relieves suffering without treating the cause of the suffering.
✘ Preventive medicine refers to medicine which keeps illnesses from occurring.

Task 4 Words on Medical People, Places and Procedures Put the following words under the appropriate title.

Task 5 Other Health Vocabulary Put the following phrases into the spaces below.

A ✘ long waiting list contains the names of a lot of people who have asked for something which cannot be given to them immediately, e.g. medical treatment.
A ✘ lack of funding refers to not enough money provided by the government or an organization for a particular purpose.
If you go ✘ to see the doctor you visit him/her for a consultation.
✘ Post-operative infection is a disease caused by germs or bacteria which occurs after and is related to a medical operation.
If you ✘ have a check-up, you visit the doctor or dentist to have a medical examination to make sure that there is nothing wrong with your health.
✘ Outdated equipment is necessary items for a particular purpose which is old-fashioned and no longer useful or relevant.
When a patient ✘ has an operation, a surgeon cuts open their body in order to remove, replace or repair a diseased or damaged part.
If you ✘ have a scan or an X-ray, you have a medical test to check if your organs are healthy and working normally.

Source: Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary. 1987. London: HarperCollins Publishers

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