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Asking about health
Doctors
Making an appointment with a doctor To call a doctor To make / fix / to ask for an appointment with smb To have an appointment with smb To keep an appointment Ant: To break / cancel / miss an appointment To be by appointment only (Consultation is by appointment only) Surgery hours are from 9 to 5. To check one’s schedule To be fully booked To fit smb in
To consult / to see a doctor To go for a check-up / to have a check-up Annual check-up To come at the appointed time To arrive at the waiting-room Surgery / Consulting-room What do we do at the doctor’s? To complain to smb of smth To consult a doctor about To breathe in, to breathe out (deeply) To have one’s eyes examined To have a blood test done To have one’s eyesight tested To have one’s chest X-rayed To have one’s cardiogram taken To have one’s tonsils removed To have one’s height and weight measured To malinger / to feign a sickness; To be a malingerer To be diagnosed with
What do the doctors do?
To examine (carefully / thoroughly) / To give (a thorough / careful) examination; To examine for smth To feel the pulse, To take the pulse To sound the heart and lungs To take the temperature, To take smb’s blood pressure To test smb’s eyesight
To diagnose an illness as smth To make a (skilful, accurate) diagnosis It sounds like … to me By the sound of it, you caught a cold Medications and their effects
Procedures of curing To grant (two-weeks’) sick-leave To go on sick-leave To be on sick-leave / on the sick-list To be off work sick / To stay away from school To keep to bed, to stay in bed / to have total bed rest Compare: To take to bed To treat a person for a disease (with smth) To cure a person of a disease, To cure an illness A cure for a disease / A remedy for a disease To put smb on treatment, To put smb on antibiotics To follow the doctor’s instructions
Prescriptions 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
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
Hospital terminology
Date: 2015-01-02; view: 1543
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