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Word List: Illnesses and diseases - list 5
- sore [sɔː(ɹ)]
(adjective) - Definition:
- causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive
- Example:
- Her feet were sore from walking so far.
- sore throat
(uncountable noun) - Definition:
- any inflammation that causes soreness of the inside of the part between the head and the corpus
- Example:
- I can barely swallow becuase I've got a sore throat.
- cold, colds [kəʊld]
(noun) - Definition:
- a common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever
- Example:
- I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.
- catch a cold
(Chunk) - Example:
- I mustn't catch a cold before I have my exams.
- cough, coughs [kɒf]
(noun) - Definition:
- a sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary; a condition that causes such an expulsion of air
- Example:
- Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough.
- cough [kɒf]
(verb) - Definition:
- to push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion
- Example:
- I breathed in a load of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.
- flu, flus [fluː]
(noun) - Definition:
- an acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics
- Example:
- I can't come because I've got the flu.
- Synonym(s):influenza
- temperature, temperatures [ˈtɛmpərɪʧə]
(noun) - Definition:
- an elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses
- Example:
- You have a temperature; I think you should stay home today.
- sneeze, sneezes [sniːz]
(noun) - Definition:
- an act of expelling air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose
- Example:
- The noisy sneeze woke up his girlfriend.
- sneeze [sniːz]
(verb) - Definition:
- to expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose
- Example:
- The flu made her sneeze and cough a lot.
- allergy, allergies [ˈælərdʒi]
(noun) - Definition:
- any condition of hypersensitivity of the immune system to a substance
- Example:
- Hay fever is an allergy.
- Synonym(s):intolerance
- allergic [ə.ˈlɜr.dʒɪk]
(adjective) - Definition:
- having an allergy to a substance
- Example:
- I am allergic to cats.
- rash, rashes [ræʃ]
(noun) - Definition:
- an area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin
- Example:
- Do you have a rash on your neck?
- itch [ɪtʃ]
(verb) - Definition:
- to feel the need to scratch
- Example:
- My back itches badly, can you scratch it, honey?
- pus [pʌs]
(uncountable noun) - Definition:
- a whitish-yellow or yellow substance made primarily of dead white blood cells and dead bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection
- Example:
- There's pus coming out of the cut.
Source: http://www.learning-english-online.net/areas/vocabulary/people/health-care/illnesses-and-diseases/list-5/
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