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I. Complaints:
headache – головний біль
ear-ache – ушний біль
stomach ache – шлунковий біль
back ache – спинний біль
sore – хворий, запалений
to be / to feel sick – нудити, відчувати нудоту
to suffer from – страждати від
appetite – апетит
to be nervous – нервувати
weak heart – слабке серце
to have a running nose – нежить
to feel feverish – знобити, морозити
the temperature falls=drops, goes down – температура спадає, підіймається
to have a high (low, normal) temperature – висока, нормальна температура
to cut one’s finger – порізати пальця
cut – поріз
to break a leg (an arm, etc.) – зламати ногу, руку …
wound – рана
to be consciousness = to lose consciousness – бути без (втратити) свідомості, знепритомніти
to recover consciousness – прийти в себе (після непритомності)
to come to oneself – прийти в себе (після непритомності)
to feel dizzy – паморочиться в голові
heart (lung, kidney, liver) problems – серцеві, легеневі, ниркові, печінкові проблеми
to injure – пошкодити
to sprain (v), sprain (n) – вивихнути (дієсл), вивих (імен)
swollen cheek (arm, leg, etc.) – розпухла щока, рука, нога …
to swell (v), swelling (n) – опухати (дієсл); пухлина, припухлість (імен)
splinter – заноза
abscess – нарив, гнійник
II. Examining a patient:
to strip to the waste – роздягтись до пояса
the tongue is coated – язик обкладений
a weak breath – слабке дихання
to examine smb. (v), examination (n) – обстежити (дієсл); обстеження (імен)
to listen to one’s heart – послухати серце
to see one’s tongue – подивитись язика
pulse – пульс
to diagnose (v), diagnosis (n) – поставити діагноз (дієсл); діагноз (імен)
complications – ускладнення
III. Treatment:
to treat smb. (v), treatment (n) – лікувати (дієсл), лікування (імен)
sick-list = medical certificate – лікарняний (лист)
to keep one’s bed – лежати в постелі
to stay in bed – залишатись в постелі
compress – компрес
diet – дієта
to be operated on – бути прооперованим
bandage – бинт, пов’язка
to cure – лікувати
to gargle – полоскати
in / out patient – стаціонарний / амбулаторний хворий
pain killer -болезаспокійливі ліки
III. Idioms and expressions:
what is the matter with you? – що трапилось з тобою?
what is the trouble? – які проблеми?
consulting hours = office hours – часи прийому, часи роботи
you look the very picture of health – ви виглядаєте неперевершено
I feel a great deal better – я почуваюсь набагато краще
on call – по виклику
black and blue – в синцях
born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth – народитися в сорочці
dead as a door nail – без якихось ознак життя
over one’s dead body – «тільки через мій труп»
give up the ghost – спустити дух
kick the bucket – протягнути ноги, вмерти
give someone a dose of his own medicine – відплатити комусь тією ж самою монетою
nutty as a fruitcake – божевільний
EXERCISE 2. Answer the questions to the text:
1. What is the best triad of a brilliant human’s health?
2. Do most of people take pills to improve their health?
3. Why are diseases, caused by germs so dangerous? Which of the common illnesses are provoked by germs?
4. What are the conditions, which may help people to prevent many diseases?
5. Is there any good in mass media while averting some deceases?
6. Why is smoking considered to be a deadly habit?
7. Do you think staying in bed is preferable while having serious health problems? Is home treatment always stimulatory?
8. Is high temperature a reason to call a district-doctor? In what cases it is approved?
9. Who will be the first person meeting ill people in the hospital?
10. Why being ill is the more unpleasant thing? Is reason in lack of care?
11. What is ‘thorough examination’? Why is it important?
12. Does speed recovery depend on quality of medicine man’s taking?
EXERCISE 3. Complete the sentences from the text:
1. Many people can’t keep from thinking that good health …
2. Good health is the sum of …
3. A sound mind in …
4. Disease is the improper function …
5. … to prevent many diseases.
6. No smoking will decrease …
7. … we are rather run down and look miserable.
8. If you are a toothache you should consult …
9. Having a heart attack you call …
10. If you got influenza, just … to avoid …
11. Some prescriptions can be …
12. You should deny … if the illness is serious.
13. Before going to the hospital you should …
14. The nurse in the hospital … and relates …
15. Being in hospital you are under …
16. The doctor … for your disease.
17. If the illness is serious you will have …
18. … you may hope to speed recovery.
EXERCISE 4. Say true or false:
1. Many people keep from thinking that good health is better than the best medicine.
2. Good health is the sum of total of your physical, mental and social well-being.
3. You should take medicine regularly to have ‘A sound mind in a sound body’.
4. Disease is the improper function of your physical processes.
5. To prevent diseases, caused by germs, you must go in for sport.
6. Sport can prevent heart diseases and help you keep yourself fit.
7. Immunization can prevent many disease, but not all.
8. People can control many illnesses over TV or radio.
9. Having a flue, you may run for a mile or two early in the morning to avoid pneumonia.
10. The pills, prescribed by doctor, are usually made up at the chemist’s.
11. Home treatment is good for serious illnesses, but is not right for cases when an operation is needed.
12. Being in hospital you get a constant doctor’s care only if you have a buzzer on the bedside table.
13. To avoid feeling the pulse, measuring the pressure and making a blood test, a doctor will destine you an X-Ray.
14. If you fulfill all the doctor’s instructions, you may hope for a speed recovery.
15. You miss the nurses and doctors when leaving the hospital.
EXERCISE 5.1 Find in the text words and expressions similar in meaning to the following:
1. A substance used to cure an illness or injury
2. State when someone is healthy, happy, and comfortable
3. Disagreeing with a plan or activity
4. An illness caused by an infection or by a failure of health and not by an accident
5. To look a pretty picture of health
6. Incorrect work and activity of some organs
7. To make an animal or man protected against an illness
8. To stop something happening or to stop someone doing something
9. To go to a particular doctor to get information or advice
10. To make a complete investigation and testing of one’s body and mind
11. Medical service, intended for rapid delivery of seriously ill people to the hospital
12. Emergency when someone's heart suddenly stops working correctly, sometimes causing death
13. Shaking the body because of cold or fear
14. Pediatrician
15. A serious illness in which your lungs fill with liquid and it is difficult to breathe
16. A physical feeling or problem which shows that you have a particular illness
17. Mental existence apart from real things
18. Medical treatment when a doctor cuts someone's body to remove or repair part of it
19. Not to allow someone to have or do something
20. The set of services provided by a medical institution for treating people who are ill
21. A fixed number of regular medical treatments
22. A photograph that shows the inside of your body
23. Putting a medical stuff into your body using a needle
24. To do what a doctor says
25. Feeling better or happier again after an illness
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