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Health and Illness: Extra Vocabulary 2

 

    • To feel under the weather = to feel slightly ill
    • To be as fit as a fiddle= to be healthy
    • To phone in sick= to call work and say you’re ill
    • To suffer from a disease
    • To be a hypochondriac or a cyberchondriac /ˌhaɪ.pəˈkɒn.dri.ək/
    • To give someone a diagnosis /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnəʊ.sɪs/ Ex: The doctor cannot give a diagnosis without doing some tests
    • To treat an illness such as asthma, depression, high blood pressure
    • To relieve a headache, dental pain, arthritis /ɑːˈθraɪ.tɪs/
    • To practise self-medication with non-prescription medicines /ˈmed.ɪ.sən//ˈmed.sən/
    • To have an operation, to undergo an operation
    • To donate organs, to be a donor
    • To go down with a cold / the flu
    • To need surgery /ˈsɜː.dʒəi/
    • A life-threatening illness
    • The side effects of drugs
    • Vaccination
    • Integrative medicine: a combination of traditional and alternative medicine
    • Home-made remedies
    • Alternative medicine /ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/:
    • Homeopathy /ˌhəʊ.miˈɒp.ə.θi/: a way of treating illnesses using very small amounts of natural substances
    • Osteopathy /ˌɒs.tiˈɒp.ə.θi/:  the treatment of injuries to bones and muscles using pressure and movement
    • Reflexology: a treatment in which your feet are rubbed and pressed in a special way in order to improve blood flow and help you relax.
    • Acupuncture /ˈæk.jə.pʌŋk.tʃər/: to insert very fine needles into the body at points along the meridians