TEST YOUR VOCABULARY FOR MEDICINE Talking about patients – nouns

TEST YOUR VOCABULARY FOR MEDICINE

Talking about patients – nouns

ALL THESE SENTENCES describe patients and their conditions. Complete the sentences using the nouns in the box. The first one has been done for you as an example.

Nouns
accident	ambulance	biopsy	consent	effort	examination	excess
exercise	injection	intake	intolerance	overdose	paroxysm	programme
rash	recurrence	surgery	tendency	vaccination	whisper

1	He developed an intolerance to penicillin
2	He suffered from a ___________ of coughing in the night.
3	She went into a coma after an ___________ of heroin.
4	He had to undergo major ___________ on his heart.
5	She took a ___________ of steroid treatment.
6	He had a ___________ of a fever which he had caught in the tropics.
7	There is a ___________ to obesity in her family.
8	The X-ray ___________ showed the presence of a tumour in his colon.
9	She has an ___________ to ease the pain in her leg.
10	He doesn’t take enough ___________; that’s why he’s fat.
11	The injured man was taken away in an ___________.
12	She was advised to reduce her ___________ of sugar.
13	The ___________ of the tissue from the growth showed that it was benign.
14	The parents gave their ___________ for their son’s heart to be used in the transplant operation.
15	She has a sore throat and can only speak in a ___________
16	It took her a lot of ___________ even to walk in a short distance.
17	Her body could not cope with an ___________ of blood sugar.
18	He has been an invalid since he has the ___________ six years ago.
19	The ___________ has left a little bump on her left arm.
20	The ___________ has left red marks on his chest and back.

ANSWER KEY

1	intolerance	11	ambulance
2	paroxysm	12	intake
3	overdose	13	biopsy
4	surgery	14	consent
5	programme	15	whisper
6	recurrence	16	effort
7	tendency	17	excess
8	examination	18	accident
9	injection	19	vaccination
10	exrrcise	20	rash