CHECK YOUR ENGLISH FOR MEDICINE
VERBS 1
The sentences in Column A contain
examples of useful verbs in medicine. In Column B there are definitions
of the verbs. Read the examples and match the verbs (in italics) with
the definitions. Then write the infinitive forms into the spaces in the
definitions in Column B. The first one has been done for you as
an example.
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Column
A: Examples
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Column B:
Definitions
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1
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After the accident the passengers were treated
in hospital for cuts.
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a
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____diagnose____ means to identify a condition or
illness, by examining the person and noting symptoms
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2
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Nurses dressed the wounds of the
accident victims.
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b
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_________ means to to use medical methods
to cure a disease or help a sick or injured person to recover
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3
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He specialises in children with breathing
problems.
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c
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_________ means to make someone healthy
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4
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She suffers from headaches.
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d
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_________ means to put someone or something
at risk
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5
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She was vaccinated against
smallpox as a child.
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e
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_________ means to give instructions for
a person to get a specific dosage of a drug or a specific form of therapeutic
treatment
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6
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Some forms of cancer cannot be cured.
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f
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_________ means to study or treat one
particular disease or one particular type of patient
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7
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The calamine lotion will soothe the
rash.
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g
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_________ means to have an illness for
a long period of time
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8
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The doctor
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h
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_________ means to treat a person for a
condition by cutting open the body and removing a part which is diseased or
repairing a part which is not functioning correctly
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9
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The doctor prescribed a course
of antibiotics.
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i
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_________ means to introduce vaccine
into a person's body in order to make the body create its own antibodies, so
making the person immune to the disease
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10
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The drug suppresses the body's
natural instinct to reject the transplanted tissue.
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j
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_________ means to relieve pain
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11
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The operation may endanger the
life of the patient.
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k
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_________ means to clean a wound and
put a covering over it
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12
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The surgeons decided to operate as
the only way of saving the baby's life.
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l
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_________ means to reduce the action of
something completely, e.g. to remove a symptom or to stop the release of a
hormone
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