Health vocabulary

noun - a bruise caused by somebody punching you in the eye

noun - a bluish mark on the skin in the place where it has been hit or hurt

noun - a very serious disease in which some cells grow uncontrollably in the body and kill the normal cells, it usually results in death

noun - the victim of an accident etc.

verb - to make somebody healthy

noun - a serious illness

noun - a situation that was not expected but has to be dealt with immediately

noun - an illness, you have a temperature, cough, sore throat, headache and your arms and legs hurt

noun - a disease caused by bad bacteria or a virus

noun - a harm that is done to somebody, esp. in an accident

noun - a substance or pill etc, that is used when people are ill to make them better

noun, American English - a doctor that specializes in general medicine

noun - a scientist specializing in physics

noun - a kind of document written by a doctor for a chemist, which allows you to use some kind of medicine

verb - to get over an illness, to get well after an injury

noun - the process of getting over an illness or getting well after an injury

adjective - (about a person) very thin

noun - a painful infected spot on the skin

verb - to go through pain or difficulty

noun - a medical operation on the body involving cutting open the skin etc.

adjective - thicker or bigger than usual, esp. because of an injury etc.

verb - to try to cure a disease or illness

adjective - (esp. of an ankle) injured by pulling and turning

verb - to disappear or become weaker

noun - an injury, a place where somebody was hurt