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pathophysiology
Pathogen: the spread of pathogens by insects
pathogenesis
Pathological: pathological depression
Pathology, pathologist: Four experienced pathologists reviewed all the diagnoses.
The pathologist confirmed that death was due to poisoning.
The police pathologist examined the body and confirmed that death was due to
poisoning.
Morbid
Aetiology
Nosology
Side effect
Complication: She developed complications after the surgery.
Infertility is one of the complications of this type of radiotherapy.
Go down/ drop etc like ninepins: Men and horses went down like ninepins before
them, in a tangle of waving limbs.
Theres a lot of flu about and people are going down like ninepins.
Come down with sth: I think I'm coming down with flu.
Be/ go down with sth
Go down with sth= catch: our youngest daughter has gone down with chickenpox
Get(9): I got this cold off (= from) you!
She gets (= often suffers from) really bad headaches.
Pick up
Catch(v10): catch something to catch measles
catch something from somebody I think I must have caught this cold from you.
Contract(v3): to contract AIDS/a virus/a disease
Develop(3): Her son developed asthma when he was two.
The car developed engine trouble and we had to stop.
Clear up: Has your rash cleared up yet?
See: go at: leave
Wasting
Enervating
Opportunistic: an opportunistic infection
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Anthrax
Meningitis: He is suffering from viral meningitis.
Encephalitis
Ague
Malaria
Dysentery
Amoebic dysentery
Chikungunya
Dengue= dengue fever= breakbone fever
Yellow fever
Trench fever
Typhoid fever: a typhoid epidemic
Lassa fever
Hay fever
Mononucleosis= grandular fever= mono
Typhus
Chickenpox: to catch/get/have chickenpox
Smallpox: In 1742 he suffered a fatal attack of smallpox.
Sleeping sickness
Diphtheria: Parents are advised to have their children immunized against
diphtheria.
Croup
Bilharzia
Hookworm
Cholera: A cholera epidemic swept the country.
German measles= rubella
Measles: All our children have had the measles.
Mumps
Lyme disease
Avian flu= chicken flu= bird flu: Ten new cases of bird flu were reported
yesterday.
Swine flu
bubonic plague= the black death
Poliomyelitis
Jaundice
The big C
Precancerous: precancerous cells
Cancerous: to become cancerous
cancerous cells/growths/tumours
Carcinogenic: the carcinogenic effects of some pesticides used on fruit
Carcinoma
myeloma
Kaposi's sarcoma
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#Tumor
Oncology
Muscular dystrophy
haemorrhoids= piles
polyp
papilloma
cyst
sarcoma
fibroma
fibroid
Plantar wart= verruca
ganglion
haematoma
metastasis
tumescent= swollen
detumescence
Swollen: swollen glands
Her eyes were red and swollen from crying.
Swelling(2): Use ice to reduce the swelling.
Slight swelling had occurred under his chin.
Swelling(1): The fall left her with a painful swelling above her eye.
There is a marked swelling of the lymph nodes.
Growth(3): a malignant/cancerous growth
Lump(3): He was unhurt apart from a lump on his head.
Check your breasts for lumps every month.
Malignancy: SYNONYM tumour
Heavy alcohol consumption causes increased blood pressure and malignancies.
Tumor: a brain tumour
a benign/malignant (= harmless/harmful)tumour
Turgid: the turgid waters of the Thames
Distend: starving children with huge distended bellies
He tied a piece of cloth around his upper arm to impede circulation and distend
the veins.
She looked very ill and her belly was horribly distended.
engorge
edema
Inflammation: inflammation of the ear
a cream to reduce the inflammation
Inflammatory
Diverticulitis
aneurysm
mastitis
bubo
Lumpectomy
Benign = non-malignant
Malignant: malignant cells
OPPOSITE non-malignant
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MMR Measles, Mumps, rubella: an MMR jab (= a vaccine given to small children to
prevent these three diseases)
Toxoplasmosis
Botulism
Salmonella: cases of salmonella poisoning
an outbreak of salmonella
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 9th edition Oxford University Press, 2015