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English vocabulary: Health & medicine – 53 words with pictures, audio & printable flashcards

53 words · Story levels: A0–B2
Including: hospital · pain · sick · tired · nurse

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hospital

/ˈhɒspɪtəl/

medical facility

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/ˈhɒspɪtəl/

medical facility

Also means: hospital care as a patient · relating to a hospital

she was at the hospital.

Read at 11:47 PM · A2

/ˈmɛdɪkəl/

related to healthcare

My mum's medical bills are — it doesn't matter.

Read at 11:47 PM · A2

/ˈtɛərɪŋ/

ripping or splitting

She thought about what it would mean to swim four more kilometres on a tearing shoulder, to crawl onto a pebbled English beach alone and triumphant but unable to lift her arm — and whether that was glory or just stubbornness dressed up in a wetsuit.

The Swimmer Who Turned Back at the White Cliffs · B2

/dɪsˈkʌmfərt/

physical discomfort

Also means: unease or embarrassment

This was not the sustainable discomfort of a long swim, but something more urgent, the kind of pain that has an opinion about what you should do next.

The Swimmer Who Turned Back at the White Cliffs · B2

/ˈwɛlnəs/

relating to physical and mental well-being

Also means: physical and mental well-being

she's a semi-public wellness account.

My Therapist Follows My Ex · B2

/sliːp/

Also means: sleep as a state of rest

That night, Dorothy does not sleep.

Flat 6 · A1

/kəˈlæps/

suddenly fell unconscious or helpless

Also means: failed or fell apart

According to every obituary, he had collapsed in his apartment in Prague on the fourteenth of March and had been found by a neighbour two days later.

The Conductor Whose Baton Was Found in the Wrong City · B2

/pʊl/

strain or injure a muscle

Also means: remove by pulling · tug or exert force · put clothing on by tugging

FC Dornbach played well, but then their best striker, Yara Osman, pulled a muscle and had to leave the field.

The Substitute Who Trained Alone for Three Seasons · B1

/bɜːrn/

feel intensely hot or painful

Also means: be on fire and give off flames · be consumed or destroyed by fire · indicate a darkened, brownish color

Her shoulder was burning now with every rotation of her left arm.

The Swimmer Who Turned Back at the White Cliffs · B2

/ˈpeɪʃənt/

person receiving therapy

Also means: calmly enduring or waiting

that is the most therapist-patient thing anyone has ever said to me and I'm honoured

My Therapist Follows My Ex · B2

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