To use all the features of this portal, please activate Javascript in your browser. Wordlist: Illnesses and diseases - List 5 1. Wordlist Show Image imgserver-66-86490776 Show Word sore[sɔː(ɹ)](adjective) Show Definition Definition: causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive Show Example Example: Her feet were sore from walking so far. Show Image imgserver-66-stk64145cor Show Word sore throat(uncountable noun) Show Definition Definition: any inflammation that causes soreness of the inside of the part between the head and the corpus Show Example Example: I can barely swallow becuase I've got a sore throat. Show Image imgserver-66-76763757 Show Word cold, colds[kəʊld](noun) Show Definition Definition: a common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever Show Example Example: I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week. Show Word catch a cold(Chunk) Show Example Example: I mustn't catch a cold before I have my exams. Show Image imgserver-66-stk65335cor Show Word cough, coughs[kɒf](noun) Show Definition Definition: a sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary; a condition that causes such an expulsion of air Show Example Example: Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough. Show Word cough[kɒf](verb) Show Definition Definition: to push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion Show Example Example: I breathed in a load of smoke by mistake, and started to cough. Show Image imgserver-66-57301059 Show Word flu, flus[fluː](noun) Show Definition Definition: an acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics Show Example Example: I can't come because I've got the flu. Show Details Synonym(s): influenza Show Image imgserver-66-200214426 Show Word temperature, temperatures[ˈtɛmpərɪʧə](noun) Show Definition Definition: an elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses Show Example Example: You have a temperature; I think you should stay home today. Show Word sneeze, sneezes[sniːz](noun) Show Definition Definition: an act of expelling air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose Show Example Example: The noisy sneeze woke up his girlfriend. Show Image imgserver-66-78050764 Show Word sneeze[sniːz](verb) Show Definition Definition: to expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose Show Example Example: The flu made her sneeze and cough a lot. Show Image imgserver-66-stk63575cor Show Word allergy, allergies[ˈælərdʒi](noun) Show Definition Definition: any condition of hypersensitivity of the immune system to a substance Show Example Example: Hay fever is an allergy. Show Details Synonym(s): intolerance Show Word allergic[ə.ˈlɜr.dʒɪk](adjective) Show Definition Definition: having an allergy to a substance Show Example Example: I am allergic to cats. Show Image imgserver-66-78400663 Show Word rash, rashes[ræʃ](noun) Show Definition Definition: an area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin Show Example Example: Do you have a rash on your neck? Show Image imgserver-66-87703248 Show Word itch[ɪtʃ](verb) Show Definition Definition: to feel the need to scratch Show Example Example: My back itches badly, can you scratch it, honey? Show Word pus[pʌs](uncountable noun) Show Definition Definition: a whitish-yellow or yellow substance made primarily of dead white blood cells and dead bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection Show Example Example: There's pus coming out of the cut. Save as PDFSave Vocabulary as PDF Ad2. Vocabulary Trainer Vocabulary trainer What would you like displayed? Which content would you like to enter? Hint Show solution Next Keyboard shortcuts: Enter: Check / Go to next question | Alt+1: Hint | Alt+2: Solution Repeat exercise ? 3. Games sorecoldcoughcoughflutemperaturesneezesneezeallergyallergicrashitchpus en Your guess: Guessed right: Repeat exercise ? Word and Definition enTries: 0allergyany condition of hypersensitivity of the immune system to a substancesorecausing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitivefluan acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemicscatch a coldtemperaturean elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnessesrashan area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skincolda common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes feverallergichaving an allergy to a substancecougha sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary; a condition that causes such an expulsion of airpusa whitish-yellow or yellow substance made primarily of dead white blood cells and dead bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infectioncoughto push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosionitchto feel the need to scratchsore throatany inflammation that causes soreness of the inside of the part between the head and the corpussneezeto expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nosesneezean act of expelling air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose Repeat exercise ? Word and Image enTries: 0itchflucoughsneezetemperatureallergyrashsore throatsorecold Repeat exercise ? Definition and Image enTries: 0to feel the need to scratchto expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nosean acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemicsan elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnessesa sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary; a condition that causes such an expulsion of airany inflammation that causes soreness of the inside of the part between the head and the corpusan area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skinany condition of hypersensitivity of the immune system to a substancea common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fevercausing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive Repeat exercise ? Learn more ... 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