✅ Health Vocabulary - People and places
✅ Verbs:
- To catch = To become sick after being exposed to an illness.
Ex: “He caught a cold.”
- To be cured = To recover from an illness.
Ex: “I no longer am sick--I have been cured!”
- To heal = To recover from physical or emotional damage.
Ex: “The cut on my knee is healing.”
- To hurt = To cause pain.
Ex: “My headache really hurts.”
- To be injured = To be the victim of physical damage.
Ex: “I was injured in a bike accident.”
- To operate on = To perform surgery.
Ex: “The doctor operated on the patient.”
- To prescribe = To give medicine to a patient.
Ex: “The doctor prescribed painkillers for my toothache.”
- To treat = To help the healing process with medicine or other medical practices.
- To vomit = To throw up.
Let’s practice:
Complete the sentences below about health with the right vocabulary word.
1. Typical __________________________ of the flu include vomiting and diarrhea.
2. Researchers around the world are trying to find a __________________________ for cancer.
3. I have a __________________________ so I am going to the dentist.
4. Julie got an itchy __________________________ on her arms and face after eating shrimp. She is __________________________ to seafood.
5. The doctor __________________________ medicine to stop the infection
6. It is hard to swallow any food because I have a __________________________.
7. Her sister is quite sick; she has a bad cough, a high __________________________, and a runny nose.
8. Kyle got a cut on his hand so he put a __________________________ on to stop the bleeding.
9. The doctor prescribed two medicines to his patient and told him to go to the __________________________.
10. Jessica bumped into a table and hurt herself. The next day she developed a __________________________.
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