Review of Health Problems, Symptoms, and Medication Vocabulary

Word Bank
acidic, allergy, antacid, antibiotic, arthritis, asthma, bruise, congested, constipated, diabetes, diarrhea, dizzy, dose, drowsy, effect, feces, gallstones, heart attack, hepatitis, high blood pressure, itchy, laryngitis, lump, nauseated, osteoporosis, pneumonia, prescription, rash, risk, side effect, skip, sprain, stroke, swelling, ulcers, urine

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8. a serious lung disease (n)

9. an exact amount of medication to be taken at one time (n)

12. a drug used to kill bacteria and to cure infections (n, adj)

14. unable to move solid waste from the body (adj)

15. a negative effect from a drug or a medicine (n)

16. a condition when the voice box is swollen and a person may not be able to speak

18. red spots on someone's skin (which are sometimes itchy)

19. solid waste from the bowels, stool (n)

20. a condition when the heart has to work harder to pump blood through the arteries, because the arteries may be partly blocked (three words)

22. feeling that you want to scratch a part of your body (adj)

23. a condition that affects the joints of the body and can cause pain, stiffness, and swelling

24. a condition in which solid body wastes are very liquid (n)

26. small hard objects that can form in the gall bladder. (n)

29. feeling like the room is spinning around (adj)

30. this condition occurs when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly cut off

31. a black and blue colour on a body part (n, v)

33. sores that can bleed in the walls of the stomach or intestines

34. to miss or not do something that you usually do (v)

35. feeling sleepy (adj)

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1. an unusual sensitivity to something that can result in a person becoming ill (n)

2. liquid waste from the kidneys (n)

3. a condition that affects the airways of the lungs, called bronchial tubes, making breathing difficult

4. a serious disease of the liver (n).

5. a small, hard piece of tissue on or in a person's body

6. a sudden twisting of a part of the body which causes the body part to swell (n)

7. feeling that you are going to throw up/vomit (adj)

10. a condition that makes the bones thinner and weaker (n)

11. This is a disease. The body uses insulin, a hormone from the pancreas, to change food into sugar. When this process doesn't work, a person has this disease(n).

13. an instruction written by a doctor that allows a patient to be given a medicine or treatment

14. unable to breathe properly because of an allergy or sickness (adj)

17. This happens when a heart artery is partly or totally blocked and blood cannot pass through it.

21. a raised, curved shape on the body because of an injury or illness

25. containing acid (adj)

27. medication for a heartburn or an upset stomach (n)

28. a change in the body or in how a person feels after taking a medication (n)

32. a possibility that something dangerous might happen

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