Toothache. At the Dentist

• to have a raging (wretched) toothache

• to have a touch of a toothache

• to have one’s tooth treated

• one tooth is loose

• the front tooth is giving trouble

• hollow

• an abscess on a tooth

• When were you treated last?

• to have one’s tooth drawn (pulled out, removed, extracted)

• extraction forceps

• to fill (stop) the tooth / to have one’s tooth filled (stopped)

• to put in a filling

• There is a cavity that needs filling

• gold filling

• false teeth

• to order a set of false teeth (denture) crown

• He needs a crown (dental bridge) fitted on

• to rinse one’s mouth with a mouth-wash

Headache

• to have a blinding (severe, splitting, beastly, racking) headache

• to put a cold plaster on the forehead

• to be subject to constant headaches

Ear-ache

• to have a shooting pain in one’s ear

• to have an ear-ache

• to be hard of hearing

• Does your ear ache or buzz?

At the Eve Specialist Something is wrong with the eye

• Something must have fallen into the eye

• The lid has swollen

• to take the bandage off (from) the eye

• to have got an infection in one’s eye

• to wash the eye with boric acid

• to put a compress on the eye

• the eye was completely closed by a huge swelling

• to recover one’s eyesight

• my sight is going

• my sight has failed me of late

• to have a loss of sight to 0.7

• to take to spectacles

9. Medicines, Medical Tools

1. medicine

• to take medicines twice a day after meals

• medicine must be taken on an empty stomach

2. pills

• to take pills in accordance with the prescription

3. drops

• take two drops every four hours

4. powder

• this powder is for reducing the temperature

5. ointment

• the ointment will keep the swelling down

6. mixture

• mixture for the throat

• gargle your throat with this mixture every three hours

• take two spoonfuls of this mixture every four hours

7. laxative, purgative

8. soporific, sleeping draught

9. tonic

10. antiseptic

11. sedative, tranquilliser

12. anaesthetic, pain killer

13. antibiotics

14. herb tea

• to make a herb tea

15. bandage

• to bandage

• to dress the wound

• to remove a bandage

16. cotton-wool

17. plaster

• plaster cast

• to put on a plaster cast

18. pipette (dropper)

19. mustard plaster

• to put a mustard plaster on smth.

• apply a mustard plaster to your chest

20. cupping glasses/suction cups

• to cup smb./to apply cups to smb.

21. chart of eye-grounds

22. wheel chair

23. crutches

24. enema; to give smb. an enema

25. first aid kit

26. medicine chest

27. splint

28. stretcher

• to put smb. on a stretcher

29. syringe

• disposable syringe

30. infusion apparatus

31. scales

32. height gauge

33. needle

34. injection;

• to give an injection

35. inoculation

• to be inoculated against influenza

36. hot bottle (bag)

• to put a hot bottle to one’s foot

37. hospital robes

38. sterile gowns and masks

• What do you take for a headache?

• This medicine will give you instant relief

• The medicine won’t do you any harm

• The medicine doesn’t work

• What a bitter pill!

• to give a shot of medicine

• to prescribe a medicine

• to make out a prescription

• to renew the prescription

to treat smb. for some disease – to try to cure by medical means (лечить)

treatment

to take a treatment for a disease

to cure smb., to cure a disease – to bring health to a person in place of disease or illness; to make a disease or illness go completely away by medical treatment (выздороветь).

to recover – to return to a proper state of health (выздороветь). E.g. He completely recovered.

to heal – to make a person healthy again (заживлять, излечивать). E.g. The wound heals slowly. Healer; miracle healer; heal-all.