Unit 6 Medication

Word abbreviation (n) abdominal pain (n) Definition a short form of a word or expression the feeling you have when the part of your body between your chest and legs hurts after meals Translation

abreviatura (n) dolor abdominal (n)

ac (adv)

despus de las comidas (adv) aadir (v) apreciar (v) despierto (adj) sonido de fondo (n)

add (v)

if you add numbers or amounts together, you calculate their total to understand how important a situation or problem is not sleeping the sounds that you can hear apart from the main thing that you are listening to the force with which blood travels through your body a plastic container shaped like a very small tube with medicine inside that you swallow whole a chemical substance found in your blood; too much cholesterol in your body may cause heart disease a group of people who have been given the official job of finding out

appreciate (v)

awake (adj) background (n)

blood pressure (n)

presin sangunea (n) cpsula (n)

capsule (n)

cholesterol (n)

colesterol (n)

commission (n)

comisin (n)

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Definition about something or controlling something

Translation

communication (n)

the process by which people exchange information a strong hope or wish calculate how many times one number contains a smaller number the feeling of being unable to stand steadily the amount of a medicine or drug that you should take at one time a very small amount of liquid that falls in a round shape the feeling of tiredness or sleepiness a disease that affects one of the organs on either side of your head that you hear with, and is caused by bacteria or a virus an unexpected and dangerous situation that must be dealt with immediately to be exactly the same in size, number or amount as something else an official document with spaces where you write information the number of times that something happens within a particular period of time a building for keeping a car in an eye disease in which increased pressure inside your eye gradually makes you lose your sight a situation where the organ in your chest which pumps blood through

comunicacin (n) deseo (n) dividir (v) mareo (adj) dosis (n) gota (n) somnolencia (n) infeccin de odo (n)

desire (n) divide (v)

dizziness (n)

dosage (n)

drop (n)

drowsiness (n) ear infection (n)

emergency (n)

emergencia (n)

equal (v)

igualar (v) formulario (n) frecuencia (n)

form (n)

frequency (n)

garage (n) glaucoma (n)

garaje (n) glaucoma (n)

heart problem (n)

problema cardaco (n)

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Definition your body has difficulty working

Translation

hs (adv) inform (v)

at bedtime to officially tell someone about something or give them information a device containing medicine that you breathe in, in order to make breathing easier an act of putting a drug into someone's body using a special needle the part of the body where you put a drug into someone's body using a special needle a substance produced naturally by your body which allows sugar to be used for energy; a diabetic may need an artificial form of this through or into a vein

horario nocturno (n) informar (v) inhalador (n)

inhaler (n)

injection

inyeccin (v)

injection site (n)

zona para la inyeccin (n) insulina (n)

insulin (n)

intravenous (adj)

intravenoso (adj) gotero intravenoso (n)

IV drip (n)

(= intravenous drip) medical equipment that is used to put liquid directly into your blood a piece of paper that is attached to something and gives information about it the language used in ancient Rome medicine or drugs given to people who are ill used to show that one number or quantity is being subtracted from another

label (n)

etiqueta (n)

Latin (n) medication (n)

latn (n) medicacin (n) menos (n)

minus (prep)

multiply (v)

to do a calculation in which you add a multiplicar (v) number to itself a particular number of

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Definition times

Translation

oh my goodness (phr) ointment (n)

an exclamation of surprise or horror

Dios mo! (loc) ungento (n)

a soft cream that you rub into your skin, especially as a medical treatment when something, e.g. a phone call is stopped for a short period of time medicine that can be sold legally without a doctor's prescription before meals

on hold (phr)

en espera (loc) sin receta (adj) antes de las comidas (adv) ms (n) oral (adj) receta (n)

over-the counter (adj) pc (adv)

plus (prep)

used to show that one number or amount is added to another by mouth a piece of paper on which a doctor writes what medicine a sick person should have how good or bad something is

po (adv) prescription (n)

quality (n) react (v)

calidad (n)

to become ill when a chemical or drug tener una reaccin (v) goes into your body the lowest part of your bowels

rectum (n)

recto (n) remedio (n) correcto (n) va (n)

remedy (n)

a medicine to cure an illness or pain that is not very serious correct the way that medicine is put into the body, e.g. by mouth, into a vein

right (n) route (n)

shake (v)

if someone shakes, or part of their sacudir (v) body shakes, they make small sudden movements from side to side or up

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Definition and down

Translation

side effect (n)

an effect that a drug has on your body, in addition to curing pain or illness a lot of red spots on the natural outer layer of a person's body tired and ready to sleep food waste from the bowels liquid which is forced out of a special container in a stream of very small drops

efectos secundarios (n) erupcin cutnea (n) somnoliento (adj) residuo slido (n) aerosol (n)

skin rash (n)

sleepy (adj) soild waste (n) spray (n)

subtract (v)

to take a number or an amount from a sustraer (v) larger number or amount a small piece of solid medicine that is supositorio (n) placed in someone's rectum or vagina when drops of salty liquid come out through your skin thick sticky sweet liquid a small round hard piece of medicine which you swallow an antiviral drug that slows down the influenza virus in the body a special way of doing something multiply by to move from one place to another to stay somewhere or not do something until something else happens, someone arrives, etc.

suppository (n)

sweating (n)

sudor (n) jarabe (n) pastilla (n) Tamiflu (n) tcnica (n) por (n) transferir (v) esperar (v)

syrup (n) tablet (n)

Tamiflu (n)

technique (n) times (prep) transfer (v) wait (v)

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