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Nursind Pisa

Vera Scampuddu Coordinatore Infermieristico – CNA Certified Nursing Assistant

Symptoms, pathology and diseases

DESCRIBING SYMPTOMS What do the following adjectives describe? Complete the sentences below. Choose from the following

anxious barking bitter blurry confused creamy double faint

foul hawking husky light nauseating numb offensive pinkish

pounding salty slimy sour stiff stinky sweet tense

throbbing tingling transparent unclear weak wheezing woozy

1 – My sight is ______________, ______________, ______________. 2 – I feel ______________, ______________, ______________, ______________. 3 – My headache is ______________, _____________, _____________, ______________. 4 – My leg feels ______________, ______________, ______________, ______________. 5 – His cough sounds _____________, _____________, _____________, ______________. 6 – Food tastes ______________, ______________, ______________, ______________. 7 – The discharge smells ____________, _____________, ____________, _____________. 8 – The discharge is _____________, _____________, ______________, ______________.

DESCRIBING SYMPTOMS

1 – My sight is blurry, double, unclear.

2 – I feel anxious, confused, faint, tense.

3 – My headache is woozy, light, pounding, throbbing.

4 – My leg feels numb, weak, thingling, stiff.

5 – His cough sounds barking, wheezing, hawking, husky.

6 – Food tastes sweet, sour, bitter, salty.

7 – The discharge smells offensive, stinky, foul, nauseating.

8 – The discharge is slimy, creamy, pinkish, transparent.

1 – sfuocato, doppio, non chiaro.

2 – ansioso, confuso, debole, teso.

3 – stordente, leggero, a pezzi, pulsante.

4 – paralizzata, debole, informicolita, rigida.

5 – canina, affannosa, grassa, rauca.

6 – dolce, aspro, amaro, salato.

7 – offensivo, puzzolente, sporco, nauseante.

8 – viscido, cremoso, roseo, trasparente.

Complete the following complaints. Choose from the following. black eye bruise can’t sleep cough depressed headacheinsect bite lost my appetite lump nosebleed out of breath runny nosesore throat stomach-ache swollen leg temperature 1 - I’ve got a __________ 2 – When I climb the stairs I’m _________________ . and a _____________ . 3 – I don’t want to eat; I’ve ___________________ . 4 – At night time I go to bed but I __________________ 5 – I’ve got a ______________ and a ______________ . 6 – I knocked my arm on the door and now I’ve got a big ______________ . 7 – I got an _____________ two days ago and now I’ve got a ___________ . 8 – I fell down the stairs and now I’ve got a __________ and a __________________ . 9 – I feel so miserable. I’m really ________________________ . 10 – I’m a bit worried because I can feel a _____________________ in my breast. 11 – I regularly get a ________________________________ . 12 – After I eat I regularly get a _____________________________________ .

1 – I’ve got a cough forehead and a sore throat.

2 – When I climb the stairs I’m out of breath.

3 – I don’t want to eat; I’ve lost my appetite.

4 – At night time I go to bed but I can’t sleep.

5 – I’ve got a runny nose and temperature.

6 – I knocked my arm on the door and now I’ve got a big bruise.

7 – I got an insect byte two days ago and now I’ve got a swollen leg.

8 – I fell down the stairs and now I’ve got black eye and headhache.

9 – I feel so miserable. I’m really depressed.

10 – I’m a bit worried because I can feel a lump in my breast.

11 – I regularly get a nosebleed.

12 – After I eat I regularly get a stomach ache.

alopecia ___ baldness _ German measles arteriosclerosis ______________ polio bursitis ______________ thrush candida ______________ warts cerebral palsy ______________ heart attack cerebral infarction/bleeding ______________ heat spot/nettle rash dyspepsia ______________ cold sore eructation ______________ swelling erythema pernio ______________ (to be) spastic flatulence ______________ belching haemorrhoids ______________ glandular fever halitosis ______________ heartburn herpes simplex ______________ baldness herpes zoster ______________ chickenpox hordeolum ______________ hardening of arteries infectious mononucleosis ______________ measles myocardial infarction ______________ bad breath oedema ______________ indigestion poliomyelitis ______________ housemaid’s knee pyrosis ______________ piles rubella ______________ shingles rubeola; morbilli ______________ tennis elbow tendonitis ______________ stroke urticaria ______________ chilblains varicella ______________ stye verrucae ______________ wind

Match the common name (first column) for a disease with its medical equivalent (second column)

Answers

alopecia = baldness

arteriosclerosis = hardening of arteries

bursitis = housemaid’s knee

candida = thrush

cerebral palsy = (to be) spastic

cerebral infarction/bleeding = stroke

dyspepsia = indigestion

eructation = belching

erythema pernio = chilblains

flatulence = wind

haemorrhoids = piles

halitosis = bad breath

herpes simplex = cold sore

herpes zoster = shingles

hordeolum = stye

infectious mononucleosis = glandular

fever

myocardial infarction = heart attack

oedema = swelling

poliomyelitis = polio

pyrosis = heartburn

rubella = German measles

rubeola; morbilli = measles

tendonitis = tennis elbow

urticaria = heat spot/nettle rash

varicella = chickenpox

verrucae = warts

baldness: calvizie

hardening of arteries: indurimento delle

arterie

housemaid’s knee: ginocchio della

lavandaia

thrush: mughetto

to be spastic: essere spastico

stroke: colpo

indigestion: indigestione

belching: ruttare

chilblains: geloni

wind: flatulenza

piles: emorroidi

bad breath: alito cattivo

cold sore: febbre sulle labbra

shingles: fuoco di S. Antonio

stye: orzaiolo

glandular fever: febbre ghiandolare

heart attack: attacco di cuore

swelling: gonfiore

polio: polio

heartburn: bruciore di

stomaco

German measles: rosolia

measles: morbillo

tennis elbow: gomito del tennista

heat spot/nettle rash: punto di calore /

orticaria

chickenpox: varicella

warts: verruche

Disorders of the digestive system

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1 - hiatus hernia 2 - partial gastrectomy 3 - gastritis 4 - peptic ulcer 5 - cirrhosis 6 - pseudocyst 7 - cholangitis

8 - cholecystectomy 9 - Crohn’s disease 10 - diverticulitis 11 - irritable bowel syndrome

12 - colonoscopy 13 - volvulus 14 - haemorrhoids

Heart and blood disorders

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Disorders of the skeletal system

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Infectious diseases

1 – The __ sterilization ___ of equipment is necessary to kill spores. STERILE

2 – Safe practice includes the safe ________________ of waste. DISPOSE

3 – Hands must be carefully washed after ________________ . CONTAMINATE

4 – A patient with a highly infectious disease may have to be cared for in ________________ . ISOLATE

5 – Some disease organisms may trigger an inflammatory ________________ in the body. RESPOND

6 – The ________________ of influenza depends on the strain of virus causing it. SEVERE

7 – In the case of mumps the period of ________________ is very long. INCUBATE

8 – In most European countries, ________________ against many childhood diseases is available. VACCINATE

9 - A long ________________ is often required after glandular fever. CONVALESCENCE

10 – Many viral diseases are known to cause ________________ if the tonsils. INFLAME

11 – A programme of ________________ has made diphtheria a very rare disease in Britain. IMMUNE

12 – Tetanus is an ________________ by the Clostridium tetani bacillus. INFECT

13 – Typhold fever is spread by _______ of food or drink contaminated by bacillus from infected faeces. INGEST

14 – If plaque is not removed from teeth it may lead to the ________________ of the enamel. DESTROY

The words on the right can be used to form a noun that fits suitably in the blank space. Fill each blank in this way.

Answers

1 – sterilization

2 – disposal

3 – contamination

4 – isolation

5 – response

6 – severity

7 – incubation

8 – vaccination

9 – convalescence

10 – inflammation

11 – immunization

12 – infection

13 – ingestion

14 – destruction

Examples: -tion: education, information -al: removal, withdrawal -ity: punctuality, similarity -ence: insistence, persistence