Physical condition: to be in good health; to be up and about; to be/to look the picture of health; to feel on the top of the world; to have never felt better; to be in the pink ( ); to be in good/bad shape; to prosper, to thrive, to come round; keep well!; to wish a speedy recovery; to be completely run down/washed out; (not) to feel up to the mark; to feel under the weather ( ); to take a turn for the better; to be completely recovered; to be depressed/tired all the time; health is failing/is picking up; to be on the mend/over the worst; to get over the illness.
How are you?; how do you feel?; to feel all right/very well/quite well/much better/a great deal better/so-so/very much the same; to get better/worse; to feel miserable/awkward/bad/nervous; to be quite well/well/ unwell/not at all/bad; to be ill; to be taken ill; to fall ill with smth./to be laid up with smth.
Consulting a doctor: medical assistance; a district/visiting doctor; to go to/to consult/to see a doctor; to send/to call for a doctor; to call/to telephone for an ambulance; to make/to have an appointment with a doctor/to enter ones name on the reception; consulting hours; to see a patient/an invalid.
Patients complaints: What is the matter with you?; What is troubling you?; What is your complaint?; What are you suffering from?; What are you worried about?
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To complain of smth.; complaint; something is wrong with my eyes(etc.); to have/to feel a pain in the side/the back, etc.; to have chest pains; to have a slight/splitting/bad headache/a stomach-ache/a toothache/an earache/a backache/a sore throat/finger/leg/running/stuffy nose/watery eyes; to have the tooth working loose ( ( )); to have a rash on my chest/spots/a bruise on my leg/a black eye/a lump on my arm/ indigestion/diarrhoea/painful joints/blisters/sunburn/an abdominal pain (stomach ache)/nausea/vomiting; to be/to feel sick/dizzy/breathless /shivery/faint/ worn out/lassitude/particularly bad at night; to have an inflamed throat; to have lost ones appetite/voice; not to be able to sleep, the nose itches and the leg hurts; to feel feverish, fever; to feel/to be giddy/constipated; to be unconscious; to get poisoned; to suffer from headache/pain; to be nervous; to have a weak/bad heart attack; to catch a slight/bad cold in ones head (); to have a slight/bad cough; to sneeze; to run/to have a temperature; the temperature fails/drops/goes down/rises/goes up; to be hoarse; to have heart/lung/kidney/liver trouble; to injure; to sprain; to have swollen cheek/a swelling; (to) scald; to swell; to get a splinter into ones finger; to have complications.
What kind of pain do you have?; cutting/sharp/severe/dull/slight pain; What relieves the pain?; What is the pain relieved by?; It can be relieved by rest/drugs/particular food/fasting (), to cause pain; to cry with pain; to cease/to pass (about the pain); to feel/to have/to experience pain.
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Examining a Patient: to have a thorough medical check-up; to examine a patient; to take ones temperature; to listen to/to sound ones chest/lungs; to feel ones pulse; to see ones tongue; to look in ones ears; to take ones blood pressure; to have high/low/normal blood pressure; to strip to the waist; to hold ones breath; to take a deep breath; to be X-rayed/have an X-ray taken; to have analyses taken; to have a blood test taken; to diagnose; diagnosis (-es); to weigh/to measure a patient; to send a patient to hospital (for further tests).
Medical advice and medical treatment: to treat s.o. for some disease; to be treated for s.o.; to take treatments for smth.; to cure s.o. of ones disease; to get cured of smth.; to be (away) on sick-leave; to put s.o. on sick-leave/to give/to grant s.o. sick-leave/a certificate of ill-health (coll.); to go on the sick (coll.); to keep ones bed/to stay in bed; to give/to take smth. for the flue, etc.; remedy for; to take a spoonful of smth.; to recover/recovery; to get rid of a disease; to be in hospital/the maternity home/the resort/the rest home/the sanatorium/the ward; to cup; to put cups/a hot water bottle()/medical baths; to get drops; to have an inoculation against smth.; to use mustard plaster/ointment; prevention (); to be on/to keep a diet; to be operated on; to operate/to perform an operation for smth.; to fill/to stop a tooth; filling/stopping; to pull out a tooth; to have a tooth pulled out/filled; to inject of smth.; to have an injection of smth.; to put a plaster bandage on/to put smth. in; to apply a splint; to dress/bandage/bind; to make bandaging; to take out the stitch; to gargle ones throat (with some medicine); to have electrical treatments (); to be under a doctors care; to discover a disease; to die of a disease/an illness/heart failure/hunger/grief/shame; to die from wounds/ loss of blood.
What does the doctor prescribe?
take one spoonful three times a day after meals;
take a teaspoonful last thing at night;
rub a little on before going to bed each night;
get the nurse to put a bandage on;
have some injections before you go;
fit the patient in for an operation;
have your leg put in plaster;
have total bed rest for a week.
At the chemists (pharmacy): to make up a prescription/to write out a prescription; to have a prescription filled; to take the medicine over-the-counters ( ); mixture; pills; (chewable) tablets; caplets; capsules; syrup; powders; drops; nasal spray; ointment; iodine; cotton; cups; pain-killer (coll.); plaster; mustard plaster.
Names of the specialists: general practitioner, physician, oculist, surgeon, ear, nose and throat specialist/doctor, eyes-specialist, dentist, neuropathist, cardiologist, oncologist, paediatrician (children doctor), psychiatrist, therapeutist, gynaecologist, midwife, doctors assistant, medical laboratory technician.
In hospital: health protection, public health services,health insurance certificate, in/out-patient, surgical unit, operating theatre, anaesthesia and breathing apparatus, consulting room, waiting room, reception, casualty ward, surgery, treatment room, ambulance, patients file, appointments book, medical/patient record/card, strether(s), forceps, medicine cupboard/block, instrument basin, steam sterilizer, storage unit, cabinet ( ), examination couch, roll of adhesive plaster (sticking plaster), sterile gauze (), dressing (), pipette, pipetting device/intravenous drips (), probe (), spirit lamp.
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Diseases (additional): a boil, a brain haemorrhage, a bug, a heart attack, a running nose, a sore throat, a virus, AIDS, an acute respiratory disorder, an ulcer, angina, appendicitis, arteriosclerosis, asthma, blood-poisoning, broken wrist, bronchitis, cancer, caries of teeth, chickenpox, chill, cholera, consumption=tuberculosis, a cut, diabetes, diphtheria, dizziness, dysentery, fracture, gastritis, giddiness, headache, heart disease, heartburn, inflammation of the middle ear, injury, insomnia, lassitude, leprosy, lung cancer, malaria, the (German) measles, migraine, mumps, nausea, paralysis, the plague, pneumonia, polio, quinsy, radiculitis, rash, rheumatism, running eyes, scarlet fever, scald, shortness of breath, small pox, sneezing, sprained/dislocated ankle, the grippe (flu), toothache, typhoid fever, typhus, whopping cough, pregnancy, hypochondria.
