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Illness vocabulary and idioms
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- 1causing misery or pain or distressfeel sore
- 2sickill
- 3physically hurtinjured
- 4not strongweak
- 5a general term for skin eruption, most often associated with communicable diseaserash
- 6a minor injury that you get it you bump into something or if something hits youhave a bump
- 7an increase in the size or a change in the shape of an area of the bodyswelling
- 8a painful and involuntary muscular contraction (calambre)cramp
- 9having the feeling of spinning and being about to falldizzy
- 10your nose is producing more mucus than usual, usually because you are illrunny nose
- 11allergic rhinitishay fever
- 12recurring problems in falling or staying asleepinsomnia
- 13to blow air involuntary through the nosesneeze
- 14pain in the headheadache
- 15irritated, red eyesitchy eyes
- 16an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands (paperas)mumps
- 17varicellachicken pox
- 18sudden, noisy expulsion of air from the lungscough
- 19vomitthrow up
- 20a buble-like collection of fluid beneath or within epidermis of the skinblister
- 21respiratory disorder characterized by wheezingasthma
- 22in good healthhealthy
- 23not healthyunhealthy
- 24redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sunsunburn
- 25injurywound
- 26illnessdisease
- 27an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discolorationbruise
- 28bruising around the eyeblack eye
- 29a common disease that is caused by a virus and that causes feverflu
- 30pain in one of the teethtoothache
- 31pain in the backbackache
- 32a rise in the temperature of the bodyfever
- 33a pain in your throat and mouth that hurts when you swallowsore throat
- 34pain in the earearache
- 35when your nose bleedsbloody nose
- 36rubeolameasles
- 37a condition in which the feces are dry and hardened and evacuation is difficult and infrequentconstipation
- 38in poor physical conditionin bad shape
- 39after an illness or an accident, you are physically healthy again(to be) back on your feet
- 40you need to take some exercise in order to become fit and healthy again(to be) back into shape
- 41skinnybag of bones
- 42very lively and energeticfull of beans
- 43to lose consciousnessblack out
- 44not see wellblind as a bat
- 45looking unwell or sick(look) blue around the grills
- 46to diekick the bucket
- 47completely deaddead as a doornail
- 48feet are hurtingdogs are barking
- 49in good physical healthfit as a fiddle
- 50difficulty in speaking clearly because of a cough or a sore throatfrog in one's throat
- 51a person in bad conditionrun down
- 52a person who is not harmed in any way, although he or she was in a dangeroua situationsound and safe
- 53to be sick or unwell(to be) under the weather
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- Flashcards on Illness vocabulary and idioms, created by Beatriz Perez Enriquez on 02/04/2018.
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