Transcript Health

Health
• To alleviate (the)pain / •
symptoms
(boredom, a problem, •
anxiety, poverty)
• To contract a
•
disease/illness = to
•
fall ill with …
• To give blood
•
• To make a (full)
recovery
To nurse sb back to
health
To perform an operation
= to operate on sb
To reduce the swelling
To regain
consciousness
To respond to treatment
Health 2
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•
•
•
To take effect
To treat an illness
To undergo surgery
To be admitted to
hospital
• To be allergic to
• To be on antibiotics
• A cure for a disease
• To die of sth
• To be discharged
from hospital
• To be in intensive
care
• To be on the mend
• to get medicine on
prescription
• To be rushed to/into
hospital
Health 3
• To be in good shape
• To be under a lot of
stress
• To suffer from sth
• To be susceptible to
sth
• To hang by a thread
• To take it’s toll/a
heavy toll on
• To clear up
• To come out in a
rash/spots
• To come out of a
coma
• To come round/come
to
• To go down with sth
• To pass out
Health 4
• To pull through
• To put sb on sth (doctor
puts you on a course of
medicine)
• To put you back out = to
hurt your back
• To shake sth off
• To take a tooth out
• To be hard of hearing
• To wear off
• A blinding/splitting/
thumping headache
• A bug
• To feel as right as rain
• A highly infectious
disease
• To have/ suffer a nervous
breakdown
• To have poor eyesight
• A runny nose
Health 5
• Shooting pains
• A sore throat
• A stinking cold = a
very bad cold
• To have touch of flu
• To feel under the
weather/ off-colour
• To have an upset
stomach