To prescribe some medicine (for smb) for an illness
To write out a prescription for smth
To prescribe a course of treatment, a course of injections
To take a teaspoonful 3 times a day after meals, last thing at night, before going to bed
To gargle with salt water
To follow the directions
Be careful not to exceed the prescribed dose
To avoid side-effects of the pill
At the chemist’s
The chemist’s / A drugstore
To take the prescription to the chemist’s
To have medicines on hand
Available on prescription
To have the prescription filled / made up at the chemist’s
To leave the prescription with the chemist
To come by for the prescription later
Recovering
The cut heals up / heals over
The swelling goes down
The pain goes away / wears off / eases off
To be out of pain
To be (well) on the road to recovery / on the way to recovery
To be on the mend
To recover from an illness
To recover after an operation
To get over / to overcome a disease
To make a recovery, To make a quick recovery, slow recovery, good recovery, total recovery
To burst with health
Dental problems
The tooth needs seeing to, stopping, pulling
The tooth is bothering me
The tooth keeps me awake
The pain skips around
To have a loose filling which is about to drop out / fall out
To have a sore gum
The tooth is sore to the touch
The tooth is sensitive to heat and cold
To have a cavity in the tooth and a (good deal of) decay around it
The decay has gone deeply into the tooth
The jaw swelled with toothache
To dread coming to see a dentist
To put off going to the dentist
To pluck up one’s courage
Dental equipment
| Dentist’s chair Electric drill A syringe | A tongue depressor A pair of forceps A mirror on a long handle |
Dental procedures
To open one’s mouth wide
To look over / to examine one’s teeth Compare: to see to the teeth
To give an injection of a painkiller (of Novocaine)
To feel a prick on the gum
To drill a tooth
To put in a filling / To fill in a cavity
To last / hold long (The filling will last long)
To save a tooth
To have one’s teeth cleaned
To have one’s tooth X-rayed
To have one’s tooth filled / stopped
To have one’s tooth pulled / extracted / taken out, To have a tooth out
Painful, Ant: painless extraction
Dentist’s advice
To take better care of one’s teeth
Not to put off going to the dentist
To have one’s teeth examined twice a year
To clean, to brush one’s teeth regularly
To use dental floss
To keep an eye on a diet
Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you
To have sound teeth
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