WordStudyMedicine & Healthcare vocabulary — B1
57 words of level B1 (Intermediate) from the “Medicine & Healthcare” collection. Each one has a short definition in simple English; tap a word to open its dictionary page.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| clinic | place where you go to see a doctor |
| emergency room | part of a hospital for serious problems |
| ward | a room in a hospital with many beds |
| operating room | room in a hospital for medical acts |
| surgery | medical act of cutting open a body to fix it |
| ambulance | vehicle that takes sick people to the doctor |
| medical equipment | tools and machines used to help sick people |
| physician | a doctor, especially one who treats illness |
| surgeon | doctor who cuts open bodies to fix them |
| therapist | a person trained to help with health or mental problems |
| specialist | person who knows a lot about one subject |
| psychiatrist | doctor who helps people with their feelings |
| psychologist | person who studies how people think and feel |
| paramedic | a trained person who helps sick people before the hospital |
| pharmacist | a person whose job is to prepare and sell medicine |
| medication | medicine given to treat illness |
| drug | something you take when sick or a bad thing people use |
| tablet | a small hard piece of medicine that you swallow |
| capsule | small container, often for medicine |
| ointment | soft cream put on skin to heal it |
| injection | putting medicine into the body with a needle |
| prescription | paper from a doctor saying what medicine to take |
| dose | the amount of medicine you take at one time |
| vaccine | medicine given to stop you from getting a disease |
| side effect | unwanted result of taking medicine |
| pain | bad feeling in your body when you are hurt |
| backache | pain in the back of your body |
| cough | a sudden sound made when you push air from your throat |
| sneeze | to blow air out of your nose suddenly |
| bruise | a dark mark on skin from being hit |
| wound | a cut or hurt on your body |
| fracture | break or crack in a hard material or bone |
| nausea | feeling that you are going to be sick |
| vomiting | when food comes back up from your stomach |
| allergy | when your body reacts badly to food, dust, or animals |
| chronic | lasting for a very long time |
| acute | very strong or serious |
| diagnosis | the doctor's decision about what illness you have |
| blood test | taking a little blood to check your health |
| urine test | a test of body water to check your health |
| screening | process of testing or checking for something |
| blood pressure | the force of blood moving through your body |
| pulse | the regular beat of blood in your body |
| symptom | sign that shows you are sick |
| result | information a doctor gives you after a test |
| negative | showing that a medical test did not find a problem |
| treatment | care given to a sick or hurt person |
| therapy | treatment to help mind or body get better |
| operation | when a doctor cuts the body to fix it |
| procedure | a medical action done to a patient in a fixed way |
| radiation | medical treatment that uses strong rays to destroy cancer cells |
| physical therapy | exercises to help a hurt body get better |
| recovery | getting back to normal health and strength after being ill |
| healing | the way the body closes a wound and repairs damage |
| bandage | strip of cloth used to cover a wound |
| cast | hard cover put around a broken bone to keep it still |
| stitches | pieces of thread used to close a wound |
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