NOUNS CHECK YOUR ENGLISH FOR MEDICINE

CHECK YOUR ENGLISH FOR MEDICINE

NOUNS

There are 20 nouns connected with medicine in the box below. Use them to complete the sentences - in some cases you will need to make them plural. The first one has been done for you as an example.

accident    allergy    ambulance    biopsy    consent    course     examination     excess    exercise    injection    intake    overdose     paroxysm     progress     rash     recurrence     surgery     tendency     treatment     vaccination

1	He developed an ___allergy___ to penicillin.
2	He suffered _______________ of coughing in the night.
3	She went into a coma after an _______________ of heroin.
4	The patient will need plastic _______________ to remove the scars he received in the accident.
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	From the _______________ of the X-ray photographs, it seems that the tumour has not spread.
9	The doctor gave him an _______________ to relieve the pain.
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	The doctors seem pleased that she has made such good _______________ since her operation.
16	This is a new _______________ for heart disease.
17	Her body could not cope with an _______________ of blood sugar.
18	Three people were injured in the _______________ on the motorway.
19	_______________ is mainly given against cholera, diphtheria, rabies, smallpox, tuberculosis and typhoid.
20	She had a high temperature and then broke out in a _______________ .

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