Doctors Vocabulary

Doctors

Vocabulary

Exercise 1 – Correct Definition

In each of the five questions in this doctors vocabulary exercise you will be given a vocabulary word and you have to choose the correct definition from the options in the questions.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of headache?

• Where two bones join and thier is a movement, eg. elbow, knee, wrist.

• A room in a surgery or hospital where patients wait before seeing a doctor.

• A pain in the head.

• To empty the lungs of air quickly and often nosily.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of examine?

• The process of studying a patient to see what is wrong.

• To have stopped being ill, to have recovered.

• An infection in the stomach from eating food that was not properly prepared (often not cooked enough).

• When the body is being attacked by a bacteria, fungus or virus.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of pharmacy?

• When a doctor sends a patient to see a different doctor, often a specialist.

• To send air out of the nose often in a violent and loud way.

• A doctor that works in a surgery in the local community and not a hospital. Is not a specialist in one area but can treat all illnesses.

• A place, or shop, where medicines are kept, prepared and sold.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of wound?

• Detailed information about a patient’s illness.

• Damage to the body, often a cut.

• A very small organism that can cause illnesses.

• The concept of how a person’s body is.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of appointment?

• A department in a hospital to treat urgent cases.

• A person trained treat ill people.

• A pain that is often low level but constant, often in a joint.

• The specific time and place of a meeting between people, e.g. with a doctor.

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the following definition: A type of medicine that is used to treat infections by bacteria?

• Antibiotics

• Better

• Virus

• Dehydrated

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the following definition: When the body is being attacked by a bacteria, fungus or virus?

• Headache

• Hospital

• Infection

• Practice

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the following definition: A person who answers telephones and makes appointments?

• Nurse

• Doctor

• Specialist

• Receptionist

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the following definition: To empty the stomach through the mouth?

• Sneeze

• Vomit

• Cough

• Virus

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the following definition: Something to make an ill person better?

• House Call

• Hospital

• Medicine

• Recover

Multiple Choice

Which description best describes the picture?

• Chemist

• Infection

• Nurse

• Recover

Multiple Choice

Which description best describes the picture?

• Dehydrated

• Doctor

• Medicine

• Flu

Multiple Choice

Which description best describes the picture?

• Bed rest

• Test Results

• Sneezing

• Well

Multiple Choice

Which description best describes the picture?

• Hospital

• Rash

• Unwell

• Receptionist

Multiple Choice

Which description best describes the picture?

• Headache

• Consulting Room

• Cure

• Cough