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  • Diseases:

Ache: to suffer a dull, sustained pain.

AIDS: abbreviation for “ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” , it is an illness that attacked the body’s ability to resist infection and which usually causes death.

Cold: a common illness that affects the nose and throat .

Cough: an illness that makes you cough.

Flu: an infectious disease that causes fever , cough , pain and weakness 

Ear ache: pain that originates inside the ear.

Cancer: a serious disease in which growths of cells form in the body and kill normal cells.

Headache: a continuous pain in the head.

Heart attack: a sudden stop of hear almost causing death.

Diabetes:  a disease in which there is usually too much sugar in the blood.

Stomach ache: a continuous pain in stomach .

Rheumatism : a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints

 

  • People working in the field of medicine: Doctor, Nurse, Surgeon, General Practitioner, Specialist.

 

  • Words connected  with  healthcare and medicine: Hospital, Surgery, Dose, Check-up, Injection, Treatment, Prescription, Cure, Wound, Pill, Heal, Bandage, Operating Theatre. Diagnosis

 

  • Diagnosis:

You have got rheumatism /flu/pneumonia /a virus/ diabetes.

You have broken your leg /neck / wrist.

You are pregnant.

He died of breast cancer / a heart attack / AIDS.

 


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