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Exercises

4.1 Make up word combinations matching adjectives and nouns.

1. ambulance, artificial, club, contact, health, intraocular, occupational, social

2. foot, lens, limb, worker, pressure, technician, professional, therapist

4.2 Give the plural forms of nouns.

a) papila[ pəˈpɪlə ], pathema [ ˈpæθəmə ], pes [ˈpəs ], phenomenon[ fɪ'nɒmə‚nɒn ], polypus [ˈpɔlɪpəs ], septum [ ˈsəptəm ], spasmus [ ˈspæzməs ].

b) sperma[ˈspɜ:rm ], stoma[ ˈstōmə ], tarsus[ ˈtɑsəs ], toxicosis [ˈtɔksıˈkəʋsıs ], vesicular[ vıʹsıkjʋlə ], viscus[ ˈvɪskəs ], zygoma[ z(a)ıʹgəʋmə ]

4.3 Which allied health professionals could best help the following people?

1 a young unmarried woman who has just given a birth to a child

2 a man who has difficulty using his right leg following a fracture

3 someone who needs spectacles

4 an elderly woman who has had a foot amputation

5 a man whose wife has Alzheimer's disease

6 a woman with a fungal infection of her feet

4.4 Complete the text.

A prosthetist works with patients of all ages as a member of a clinical team, based at a large hospital. The patients may need a prosthesis as the result of an accident, or (1)........................following a disease such as diabetes. Alternatively they may have been born without a (2)...................................

Orthotists work alongside doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and occupational (3).........................................to give the people under their care the best possible (4)............................Their main aim is to enable the patient to lead a normal life at work and leisure.

An orthotist often works in a clinic as part of an outpatient service and also visits other centres to provide a service for people with special needs. They deal with people of all ages.

For instance, children who have cerebral palsy may require (5).......................................to help them walk and many older people need special shoes to correct (6)...............................

If damaged, any part of the human skeleton may require some form of orthosis. The orthosis may be needed to reposition the body or to (7)................................................pain.

4.5 Answer questions:

1. Are there allied health professionals in your country? If there are, describe their duties.

2. Are these specialties developed in your country?

4.6 Learn questions of an eye specialist and make your own dialogue. Consulting an ophthalmologist.

1. Do you have normal vision or do you complain of shortsightness or longsightness?

2. When did you vision get worse?

3. Is there anybody shortsighted or longsighted in your family?

4. What troubles you?

5. When did your eye become red?

6. When did your eye begin to water?

7. Have you tried to treat your eye yourself?

8. Have you seen a doctor?

9. Is there any pus in your eye when you get up?

10. Have you put any drops in your eye?

11. How often did you put drops?

12. How long have you been putting drops?

13. Have you noticed any relief?

14. What other treatment did you use?

15. What’s wrong with your eyes?

16. What’s got into your eye?

17. Did you wash your eye with any solution?

18. Is your eye watering?

19. What’s wrong with your eye-lid?

20. What was the doctor’s diagnosis?

21. How do you see in twilight?

22. Do you distinguish colors?

23. Do you feel photophobia?