7. Names of Diseases and their Symptoms

1. cold; to have a bad / frightful cold; to get a cold; to catch a cold.

2. tonsillitis

3. quinsy

4. laryngitis

5. otitis

6. chill; to have a chill; to get / catch a chill

7. fever; to have a feverish fit; to feel feverish; the fever has subsided; fever goes down; fever goes up two degrees; to sweet the fever off;

8. bronchitis

9. pneumonia

Symptoms

• to have a running nose

• to cough

• to sneeze

• my nose is clogged up

• my glands are swollen

• the tongue is (thickly) furred

• to now hot now cold

• it is hard to swallow

• to have a sore throat

• (my throat is sore)

• to have a hoarse throat

• I can’t shake off my cold

• to have chest troubles

Catching Diseases

1. AIDS

2. chicken pox

3. consumption (TBC)

4. diphtheria

5. hepatitis

6. influenza / flu (Am. grippe)

7. jaundice

8. malaria

9. measles

10. meningitis

11. mumps

12. scarlet fever

13. tetanus

14. typhoid

15. typhus

16. whooping-cough

Symptoms

• to be infected

• to get infected from smb.

• to catch disease

• to take the infection from smb.

• incubation

• rash / eruption

• the rash broke out

• diarrhoea

• vomiting

• oedema [i:´di:mǝ] – отек

• swelling /tumour

• benign tumour; malignant tumour

• germs (flu germs)

• to have all the symptoms of mumps

Chronic Diseases

1. allergy

2. anaemia

3. arthritis

4. asthma

5. cancer

6. cirrhosis

7. deafness

8. diabetes

9. gastritis

10. paralysis

11. rheumatism

12. ulcer/ sore

Heart Diseases

1. hypertension (high blood pressure)

2. hypotonia (low blood pressure)

3. infarction

4. stenocardia

• to have heart complaint

• to have a heart attack

• to have heart troubles

• to have murmur of the heart

Eye Diseases

1. blindness

2. colour blindness

3. long sight

4. short / near sight

5. sty

Skin Diseases

1. dandruff /dandriff/ scurf

2. diathes

3. eczema

4. herpes

5. itch / scab

6. wart

Nervous Diseases

1. depression

2. hysteria

3. neurosis

• to have a nervous fit

• to have a nervous attack

• to have shattered nerves

Limb Injuries

1. abscess

2. oedema

3. swelling/tumour

4. contusion

5. injury

6. scratch

7. abrasion

8. bruise

9. dislocation

10. strained muscles

11. fracture / bone fracture

12. gangrene/ mortification

13. draught

14. corn

• my foot is sore (I have a sore foot)

• the foot is out of joint

• the bone needs to be put into joint

Stomach Diseases constipation

1. diarrhoea

2. indigestion

3. poisoning

• to be sick

• to vomit

• to have stomachache

• meat doesn’t suit me

• fish disagrees with me

• to have bad (disordered) digestion

8. Pain

ache – n. a continuous, but not violent, pain. Nouns formed from ache are treated as uncountable in Br.E. when they mean a condition or a state: e.g. Chocolate gives me toothache; She suffers from backache. When they mean a single attack of pain, they can be either countable or uncountable: She often gets stomachaches / stomachache. But headache is always a countable noun: a nasty headache. v. to have or suffer a continuous but not violent pain. E.g. I ache all over; My head aches.

pain – n. 1. suffering, great discomfort of the body or mind; e.g. He was in great pain; she was crying with pain after she broke her arm. 2. An especially sharp feeling of suffering or discomfort in a particular part of the body; e.g. slight stomach pains. v. to cause pain, to hurt (of

a part of the body).

• a stabbing pain

• a severe pain

• a nagging pain

• a sharp pain

• a shooting pain

• an acute pain

• to be in pain

• to grow pail from pain

• to roar with pain

• to bear / stand the pain

• to faint of pain

• to have pains and aches of every description

• to relieve the pain

• to suffer from pain

• Where do you feel a pain?

• I am conscious of pain here

• The pain was slight and lasted for a moment

• The pain has gone

• It’ll give you pain

• The pain is abating