✅ 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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