Miguel Marín

Health and Medicine

 Patient
•
A person receiving or registered to receive
medical treatment. e.g. ‘many patients in the
hospital were more ill than she was’
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 Patient
•
A person receiving or registered to receive
medical treatment. e.g. ‘many patients in the
hospital were more ill than she was’
•
A person receiving or registered to
receive medical treatment.
•
E.g. ‘many patients in the hospital
were more ill than she was’
Surgeon

•
Cirujano
Surgeon

•
A doctor who is specially
trained to perform medical
operations
•
E.g. The surgeon did
everything in her power to
save him.
Casualty

•
Víctima.
Casualty

•
A person injured or killed in
a serious accident or war:
e.g. The train was derailed
but there were no casualties,
police said.
Psychiatrist

•
Psiquiatra.
Psychiatrist

•
A doctor with special
training in treating mental
illness e.g. A psychiatrist
was called as an expert
witness for the defence.
Nurse

•
Enfermera.
Nurse

•
A person whose job is to care
for people who are ill or
injured, especially in a
hospital: e.g. He worked as a
nurse in a psychiatric
hospital.
General practitioner​

•
Medico general.
General practitioner​

•
A doctor who provides
general medical treatment
for people who live in a
particular area: e.g. The
doctor started as a general
practitioner 20 years ago.
e.g. You should go to see
your general practitioner.
Specialist

•
Especialista medico.
Specialist

•
A doctor who has special
training in and knowledge of
a particular area of medicine:
e.g. She's a specialist in
childhood illnesses.
Midwife

•
Partera, matrona
Midwife

•
A person, usually a woman,
who is not a doctor and who
has been trained to help
women when they are giving
birth. e.g. he survived to be
one of the midwives of the
Reformation’
Thermometer

•
Termometro.
Thermometer

•
A device used for measuring
temperature, especially of
the air or in a person's body.
e.g. ‘Air temperature was
recorded every hour using a
mercury thermometer
Ward

•
Sala.
Ward

•
One of the parts or large
rooms into which a hospital
is divided, usually with beds
for patients: e.g. a
geriatric/maternity/psychiatri
c ward
Prescription

•
Prescripción .
Prescription

•
A piece of paper on which a
doctor writes the details of
the medicine or drugs that
someone needs: e.g. These
drugs are only available on
prescription (= with a
prescription from a doctor).
Operation

•
Operación .
Operation

•
An occasion when a doctor
cuts a body for medical
reasons in order to repair,
remove, or replace an
unhealthy or damaged part:
e.g. He has to have an
operation on his shoulder.
Pulse

•
Pulso
Pulse

•
The regular beating of the
heart, especially when it is
felt at the wrist or side of the
neck: e.g. The child's pulse
was strong/weak. e.g.
Exercise increases your
pulse rate
Receptionist

•
Recepcionista.
Receptionist

•
A person who works in a
place such as a hotel, office,
or hospital, who welcomes
and helps visitors and
answers the phone. e.g ‘On
arrival at the surgery, a
receptionist confirmed her
appointment and pointed to
the adjacent waiting room
Appointment

•
Cita.
Appointment

•
A formal arrangement to
meet or visit someone at a
particular time and place:
e.g. I'd like to make an
appointment with Dr Evans,
please.
Chemist

•
Quimico.
Chemist

•
A person whose job is to
prepare and sell medicines
and other goods in a shop. a
person who studies
chemistry, or a scientist who
works with chemicals or
studies their reactions. e.g.
Chemists at pharmaceutical
companies are vying to
create a cure for migraine.
Symptoms

•
Sintomas.
Symptoms

•
Any feeling of illness or
physical or mental change
that is caused by a particular
disease: e.g. He's
complaining of all the usual
flu symptoms - a high
temperature, headache, and
so on.
Examine

•
Examen.
Examine

•
Inspect (someone or
something) thoroughly in
order to determine their
nature or condition. e.g. ‘a
doctor examined me and said
I might need a caesarean’
Treatment

•
Tratamiento .
Treatment

•
The use of drugs, exercises,
etc. to cure a person of an
illness or injury: e.g. free
dental treatment; Perhaps it's
time to try a new course of
treatment; This disease
doesn't generally respond to
(= improve as a result of)
treatment.
A cold

•
Un resfriado.
A cold

•
a common infection,
especially in the nose and
throat, that causes you to
cough and sneeze and your
nose to run (= drip liquid) or
feel blocked: e.g. I've got a
cold. She caught a cold at
school.
A cough

•
Tos.
A cough

•
to force air out of your lungs
through your throat with a
short, loud sound: e.g. The
smoke made me cough.
e.g.coughed all night long.
Sore that

•
Dolorido
Sore that

•
A condition in which your
throat is red and feels
painful, especially when you
swallow : e.g. She has a sore
throat and a fever.
A Temperature

•
Temperatura.
A Temperature

•
A temperature is also a fever:
e.g. You have a temperature
A stomach ache

•
Dolor de estómago.
A stomach ache

•
Pain in your stomach: e.g. I
ate too much and got a
terrible stomach ache.
Chest pains

•
Dolor en el pecho.
Chest pains

•
A feeling of physical
suffering in the chest (the
upper front part of the body
of humans and some
animals, between the
stomach and the neck,
enclosing the heart and
lungs)
Earache

•
Dolor de oídos.
Earache

•
A pain in the inside part of
your ear. e.g. a child
complaining of an earache’
A pain in my side

•
Dolor en mi costado.
A pain in my side

•
e.g I have had twelve
pregnancies and each time I
had this terrible pain in my
side. He tenido doce
embarazos y cada vez he
sentido ese mismo terrible
dolor en el costado.
 A rash on my chest

•
Una erupción en el pecho.
A rash on my chest

•
(s​arpullido erupción​) a lot of
small red spots on the skin:
If you stay in the sun too
long you'll get (a) heat rash.
Spots

•
Deporte.
Spots

•
a raised, pale red circle on
the skin that is temporary:
Synonym A pimple. (grano)
A bruise

•
Un moretón.
A bruise

•
On my leg, an injury or mark
where the skin has not been
broken but is darker in
colour, often as a result of
being hit by something:
She's got a nasty bruise on
her leg from when he kicked
her.
A black eye

•
Un ojo negro.
A black eye

•
An area of skin around the
eye that has gone dark
because it has been hit: e.g.
He had a fight at school and
came home with a black eye.
A lump

•
Un bulto
A lump

•
On my arm, a hard swelling
(inflamación) found in or on
the body, especially because
of illness or injury: e.g. She
found a lump in her arm..
Indigestion

•
Indigestión.
Indigestion

•
Pain that you get in your
stomach when you have
eaten food that is difficult to
digest: e.g. Do you suffer
from indigestion after you
have eaten?
Blisters

•
Ampollas
Blisters

•
A painful swelling on the
skin that contains liquid,
caused usually by continuous
rubbing, especially on your
foot, or by burning: e.g. New
shoes always give me
blisters.
Sunburn

•
Quemadura del sol.
Sunburn

•
A condition in which your
skin is sore and red because
you have spent too long in
the strong heat of the sun,
e.g. A long day at the beach
gave him a bad sunburn.
To feel dizzy

•
Sentirse mareado.
To feel dizzy

•
Feeling as if everything is
turning around, and that you
are not able to balance and
may fall over: e.g. Going
without sleep for a long time
makes me feel dizzy and
light-headed
Shivery

•
Destemplado
Shivery

•
Shaking slightly because you
feel cold, frightened, or ill:
e.g. She's very hot and
shivery, so I think she must
have flu.
Faint

•
Desmayarse.
Faint

•
To feel weak, as if you are
about to become
unconscious: e.g She felt
faint with hunger.
My nose itches

•
Me pica la nariz.
My nose itches

•
To have or cause an
uncomfortable feeling on the
skin that makes you want to
rub it with your nails: e.g.
There's a mosquito bite on
my nose that is itching like
crazy!
My leg hurts

•
Me duele la pierna.
My leg hurts

•
To feel pain in a part of your
body, or to injure someone or
cause them pain: e.g. does
acupuncture hurt?’
Diagnosis
Diagnosis

•
Diagnóstico.
 Diagnosis

•
A judgment about what a
particular illness or problem
is, made after examining it:
e.g. "What was the
diagnosis?" "Arthritis in both
joints."
A cold

•
Un resfriado.
A cold

•
A common infection,
especially in the nose and
throat, that causes you to
cough and sneeze and your
nose to run (= drip liquid) or
feel blocked: e.g I've got a
cold.
 Flu

•
Gripe.
Flu

•
A common infectious illness
that causes fever and
headache: e.g a flu virus / to
catch/get/have (the) flu
Chickenpox

•
Varicela.
Chickenpox

•
An infectious disease that
causes a slight fever and red
spots on the skin: e.g.
Chickenpox common among
children.
Mumps

•
Paperas..
Mumps

•
An infectious disease that
causes painful swelling in
the neck and slight fever: e.g
Their youngest was off
school with the mumps.
Measales

•
Sarampion.
Measales

•
An infectious disease that
produces small, red spots all
over the body: e.g. The
number of deaths from
measles fell by 30 per cent.
Pneumonia

•
Neumonia.
Pneumonia

•
A serious illness in which
one or both lungs become
red and swollen and filled
with liquid: People who are
bedridden (having to stay in
bed because of illness or
injury:) can easily get
pneumonia.
Rheumatism

•
Reumatismo.
Rheumatism

•
A medical condition that
causes stiffness and pain in
the joints (= places where
two bones are connected) or
muscles of the body: e.g. She
suffers from rheumatism.
An ulcer

•
Una ulcera
An ulcer

•
A break in the skin, or on the
surface of an organ inside
the body, that does not heal
naturally: e.g. a
mouth/stomach ulcer
A virus

•
Un virus.
A virus

•
An extremely small piece of
organic material that causes
disease in humans, animals,
and plants: e.g. Evidence
suggested that the
coronavirus was spreading
very quickly among the
Spanish community.
A bug

•
Microbio.
A bug

•
An illness that is usually not
serious and is caused by
bacteria or a virus : e.g. I had
a tummy/stomach bug last
week.
You have broken your
leg
•
Tu tienes rota tu pierna..
You have broken your
leg
•
Damaged, no longer able to
work: e.g. The young family
who take care of it are safe,
but the wife of the caretaker
suffered a broken leg.
Sprained

•
Esguince
Sprained

•
Your ankle, to cause an
injury to a joint (= a place
where two bones are
connected) by a sudden
movement: e.g. She sprained
her ankle playing squash.
Dislocated

•
Dislocarse.
Dislocated

•
Your shoulder, A dislocated
joint (= a part of the body
where bones join) is one in
which a bone has been
suddenly forced out of its
correct position:e.g a
dislocated hip. The shoulder
iis not broken, just
dislocated.
You are pregnant

•
Tu estas embarazada
You are pregnant

•
(of a woman and some
female animals) having a
baby or babies developing
inside the womb: e.g. She's
five and a half months
pregnant.
He died of lung cancer

•
Murió de un cancer de
pulmón.
He died of lung cancer

•
A serious disease that is
caused when cells in the
body grow in a way that is
uncontrolled and not normal,
killing normal cells and
often causing death: e.g He
died of lung cancer
A heart attack

•
Un infarto
A heart attack

•
A serious medical condition
in which the heart does not
get enough blood, causing
great pain and often leading
to death: e.g. John had a
heart attack three years ago.