Learn 10 high-frequency expressions, including medical-related words
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| Hi, everybody. My name is Alisha. Welcome to the 2000 Core English Words and Phrases video series. |
| Each lesson will help you learn new words, practice, and review what you've learned. Okay, let's get started. First is... |
| body temperature |
| Body temperature refers to the level of heat in your body. |
| So if it's very hot, maybe you have a fever. |
| If it's very cold, maybe you're freezing outside somewhere. |
| Probably not good. |
| Here's an example. |
| His body temperature was far above the normal 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. |
| take one's temperature |
| To take one's temperature means to use some kind of measuring device to measure the level of heat in the body. |
| So people often use like the back of their hand to get some kind of idea of the level of heat in a body. |
| But when we use a device, we often use it in the ear or perhaps in the mouth or perhaps |
| under the arm. |
| Here's an example. |
| The nurse used a digital thermometer to take the patient's temperature. |
| operation |
| An operation is a medical procedure. |
| When the doctors need to open your body to fix something inside it or when they need |
| to put devices inside the body to fix something, we call this an operation. |
| Here's an example. |
| The surgery team is performing an operation. |
| take one's pulse |
| Your pulse is your heartbeat, how fast or how slow your heart beats. |
| When you take your pulse, you measure how fast the heart is beating. |
| So maybe we like to use our fingers to take the pulse here or to take the pulse here. |
| You might also have different procedures in doctors' offices to measure the rate of your heartbeat. |
| Here's an example. |
| The most common places to take a pulse are the neck and wrist. |
| emergency room |
| An emergency room is a part of a hospital that is used for emergency medical care. |
| So this is a little bit separate from the main part of the hospital where patients are cared for regularly. |
| In emergency rooms, people come to the hospital for immediate medical treatment. |
| Here's an example. |
| The ambulance took her to the emergency room after the accident. |
| give an injection |
| To give someone an injection means to give someone medicine by using a needle and a syringe, which is the thing that holds the medicine. |
| So we might give an injection in the arm, for example, or in another part of the body. |
| We attach it to someone and push the medicine into them. |
| Here's an example. |
| The nurse gives an injection to the patient. |
| medical history |
| Your medical history is your history of medical problems and treatment and care. |
| Everyone has a medical history. |
| So this means what kind of medicine do we take or what reactions have we had in the |
| past? What operations have we had? And so on. All of this is our medical history. |
| Here's an example. |
| The nurse takes the patient's medical history upon entering the hospital. |
| insurance |
| Insurance is a way to pay for something like medical care. |
| There are many different types of insurance, but in the case of medical insurance, it's money that you pay to a company that will help to cover the costs of medical procedures when you need it. |
| Here's an example. |
| It takes good insurance to pay for modern medical procedures. |
| X-ray |
| An x-ray is a procedure that we do to check inside the body. |
| So for example, if you have a problem with your bone or if there's something inside your body that the doctors need to check, you might get an x-ray, which will allow them to see your bones and other things that might be inside the body. |
| Here's an example. |
| The doctor and nurse are taking an x-ray of the patient's chest. |
| blood test |
| A blood test is a test of the blood that comes from the body. |
| So someone like a nurse or a doctor will take a sample of blood. |
| They will use a needle to collect some blood from your body and test that to see if there are any problems or if it looks healthy. |
| Here's an example. |
| The blood test found his blood alcohol level was very high. |
| Let's review. |
| I'm going to describe a word or phrase in English. See if you can remember it. |
| Then repeat after me focusing on pronunciation. Ready? |
| Do you remember how to say the expression that refers to how hot or how cold your body is? |
| body temperature |
| And how to say to measure someone's body temperature? |
| take one's temperature |
| What about the word that we use to talk about when doctors or a team of doctors need to open the body to do some repair work or maybe they just need to put devices in the body to repair something. |
| operation |
| Do you remember how to say to check your heartbeat rate? |
| take one's pulse |
| Let's try the expression that means the part of the hospital that is for immediate medical treatment. |
| emergency room |
| What about the expression that means to give someone medicine using a needle and a syringe, for example, into the arm? |
| give an injection |
| Now let's see if you remember how to say the expression that means someone's entire history of medicine, of treatment, of care, and so on. |
| medical history |
| Another one. |
| What about the thing that we pay usually every month or perhaps every year to ensure that we can receive medical treatment? |
| insurance |
| Do you remember how to say the type of check that doctors and nurses may use to examine your bones and things that may be inside your body? |
| X-ray |
| And finally, do you remember how to say the type of test that we use with something that comes from the body, the red liquid from your body? |
| blood test |
| Well done! See you next time. Bye! |
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