English for Specific Purposes (ESP): Online Medical Dictionary I.

Essa postagem é direcionada para alunos incitantes no estudo de Língua Inglesa nas áreas de Medicina, Enfermagem e afins. Não temos a pretensão de passar um curso completo, mas de fornecer algumas palavras e frases que podem ser úteis em textos acadêmicos da área. Lembro aqui que não focamos nas pronuncias das palavras, mas apenas na tentativa de passar alguns termos em inglês.  

Many people have been writing to me asking me questions related to the vocabulary of some very specific areas – law, medicine, engineering, and many others. Although I cannot answer all the emails I have been receiving, I’ll try to do the best I can in order to help those readers.

If you came here looking for some medicine (medical) and healthy terms in English, probably you came to the right place. I cannot promise you will find a complete and effective ‘Medical English Course’ or something like that here, but type ‘English for Specific Purposes (ESP)’ and maybe you’ll find much more about it in the future.

Here there’s a list of some words in English:

SYMPTOMS

Symptoms are the way our bodies tell us that there are health problems. Symptoms can help tell us what is wrong in our body. Symptoms tell you that there are changes in how your body is working. When you visit a doctor, you should tell your doctor how you feel. If you do not feel good, this could mean that something is wrong with your health.

There are different types of symptoms. Symptoms can be:

• Vomiting (to throw-up)

• Swelling (puffed up)

• Bleeding (loss of blood)

• Fever (high body temperature)

• Earache (pain in the ear)

• Toothache (pain in the teeth)

• Headache (pain in the head)

• Rash (irritation of the skin)

• Numbness (to not feel)

• Drowsiness (sleepy)

• Diarrhea (watery poop/stool)

• Trouble breathing (cannot breath well; shortness of breath)

• Tingling (feeling pins and needles in your body or skin)

• Passing gas (bad smelling air from bowels)

• Congestion (your nose is full. It is hard to breathe from your nose)

• Itching (you want to rub or scratch your skin)

• Fatigue (you feel tired/weak)

• Constipation (your stool (poo) is too hard. It does not come out)

• Sneezing (a quick push of air out of your nose and mouth)

• Stomach ache (pain in your stomach)

• Backache (pain in your back)

• Runny nose (nose dripping watery)

• Cough (quick noisy push of air from mouth)

• Dizziness (feeling wobbly/faint; to loose balance; not steady)

• Nausea (to feel like throwing up; feeling sick in the stomach)

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From: Health Talk: A Health Literacy Curriculum for English Language Learners.