Abnormality / n/ something that is not normal.
Aching (n) a contonuous, staedy pain
Addicted (adj) having a physical and mental needs to consume a substance, especially a harmful drug
Agonizing (adj) extremely painful.
Allergic (adj) having a condition that causes a bead reaction with acertain substance.
Artery (n) any of the blood vesselswhich carry blood away from the heath, Bacteria (n) a small organism without a nucleus, that can some times causes
infection.
Bpm (n) beats per minute
Blister (n) a closed shell of skin containing liquid, that is caused, for example, by a burn or other injurt.
Bodily fluits (n) the liquids, inside the body that allow it is to function.
Body (n) a dead person.
Brain waves (n) electrical signal in the brain.
Bruising (n) blue or purple marks on the body, caused by blending under skin.
Calorie (n) a unit for measuring how much energy food will produce.
Cell (n) the smaller unit of living matter.
Circulation ( n) the movement of the blood through the herth and blood vessels.
151 Corridor (n) a long narrow passages in the buldingwith doors that open into
rooms on either side.
Couch (n) a sudden noise produced when air is suddently forced out of the throat, when you hav a cold.
CPR (cardiopulmanary resuscitation) (an emergency procedure used to keep a person alive who has stop breathing or whose hearth has stopped beating.
Cramp (n) a sqeesing pain a muscle.
Deformity (a condition in which a part of the body is not the normal shape.
Diabetic (adj) being unable to produre enough insulin.
Diagnose (v) to say what desease or condition a person is suffering from, based on tests, examinations, and symptoms.
Disabled (adj) having a physical or mental problem which means you unable to do some thing.
Life-threatening condition (n) an illness that could kill the person that has it.
Lift (n) a machine that carries people or goods up and down to the different level in a building.
Limb (n) an arm or leg.
Local anaesthetic (n) a drug that makes you enable to feel anything in one part of the body.
Loss conciousness (v) to become unconcious.
Lump (n) any kind of abnormal mass that can be felt in or on the body.
Medicinal (adj) helpful in the process of healing illness or infection.
Micraine (n) severe headche that may be accompanied by nousea, vormitting, or sensitive to light.
152 Mild (adj) not strong.
Mineral (n) a substance that is naturally presnt in the earth ad in the human body,and is essentialfor good health.
Mood swings (n) period during which a person changes quickly from feeling very happy to feeling veri unhappy.
Mortuary ( n) a room in hospital where dead bodies are taken . Nap (n) a short sleep during the day.
Nousea (n) the unpleasnt feeling that you are going to omit.
Nervous system (n) the system of all the nerves in the body.
Numbness (n) a lack of feeling in the part of body.
Nursing officer (n) a senior nurse who is respossible for managing a ward and people who work on it.
Nutritionist (n) a person who studies the effect of foods on the body.
Obese (adj) very fat, in a way that is not healthy.
Pain relief (n) drugs or treatment given to a patientto take away pain.
Pipette (n) a narrow tube used in a laboratory for meauring or transferring small amount of liquids
Platelets (n) smass dices in the blood, that help to cloth the body from a cut or wound.
Practioner (n) a medical proffesional who is licence to treat patients.
Prescribe (v) (of a doctor) to authorize a patient to receive a particular drug or treatment.
Prescription (n) a medicine or treatment authorized by a doctor, the written order that aouthorized his treatment.
153 Precedure (n) the usual or correct way of doing something.
Promotion (n) a move to a more important job or rank.
Protein (n) a natural substance fount in meat, eggs fish, some vegetables, which we need in order to grow and stay healthy.
Psychiatric (n) relating to mental illness or to the treatment of it.
Rank (n) the level of job that a person has in a particular area of work, such as nursing.
Rash (n) an area of red spots on a person‟s skin, caused by an illness or a reaction to something.
Saliva (n) the liquid that is produced in your mouth that help you swallow food.
Severe (adj) (of illness, injury) serious, very bad.
Severed (adj) part of the body cut off in a accident.
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Listening scrips
Unit one. In and around the hospital a. Listen, where is the person giving direction to?
Porter (P) Man (M)
P Go into the hospital through these swing door, Go along the corridor, take the first rignt, and it;s the secod door on your left.
M Through the swing doors, down the corridor, first right, second left.
P That it is M = Thanks
c. listen to a porter answering telephone calls and directing operation, fill the gaps in the sentences below
H =
head porter W=Wahid Brian =BH Sure right away. Hello Wahid? Are you there?
W Yes
H Where are you?
W I‟m at the top of the stairs outside Physioterapy.
H Can you go across the hospital to the stores and collect a box of disposable syringes and take them to the Path lab. And also a wheek hair.
W Box of the syringes and wheek . OK
H Porters‟ office – yes Doctor Sayed, I will do that . Hello Brian!
B I am here
H Doctor Sayed from Cardiology wants a porter . They‟ ve got a lot
155 of empty bottles – can you take them to the bins?
B Where are they?
H Outside Cardiology near the swing doors on the main corridor … and then take a stretcher to Wards four, collect, collect a patient and take him to Radiology….