Learn 10 high-frequency expressions, including medicine and medical supplies
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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... |
| intravenous |
| Intravenous means inside the vein. So veins carry blood around the body. |
| It's one of the things that our body uses to take blood from like the hand, for example, back to the heart. |
| But when we use something intravenously, it means it goes inside the vein like medicine. |
| Here's an example. |
| The nurse started an intravenous line (IV) to give the patient fluids. |
| doctor's office |
| The doctor's office is the place that you go to have a checkup or if you have a problem, you go there to ask the doctor to help you fix whatever is wrong with you. |
| So the doctor's office might be separate from the hospital. |
| Here's an example. |
| The doctor's office is near the library. |
| thermometer |
| A thermometer is a device we use to check the temperature of the body. |
| So if you're feeling very hot, someone like a doctor or nurse might use a thermometer maybe in your ear or under your arm to check your temperature. |
| Here's an example. |
| The nurse used a digital thermometer to take the patient's temperature. |
| needle |
| A needle is a very, very sharp piece of metal that's at the end usually of some kind of medicine in medical cases and we use needles to push the medicine into the body. |
| So lots and lots of people really don't like needles. |
| Here's an example. |
| When the patient saw the size of the needle, he fainted. |
| take a bath |
| To take a bath means to wash the body by sitting in water. |
| So when we take a bath, we are surrounded in water and we clean ourselves while we are in the water. |
| Here's an example. |
| I'll take a bath at the hotel. |
| sick |
| Sick has a couple of different uses. |
| When we are not feeling well, sick means that we don't feel healthy. |
| Some people also use the word sick to mean cool or crazy, but generally, when we're talking about our health and we describe ourselves as sick, it means not good. |
| Here's an example. |
| If you get sick, go to the doctor. |
| cough syrup |
| Cough syrup is a very common medicine that we use to fix coughs. |
| So this syrup comes from the very, very kind of sticky and thick liquid that we drink. |
| So it's not like water, but it's quite thick like a syrup. |
| This is specifically for coughs. |
| Here's an example. |
| The doctor prescribed her a cough syrup. |
| aspirin |
| Aspirin is a very common type of medicine. |
| Many people like to use aspirin as an everyday painkiller. |
| So if they're not feeling well, like they have a headache or some other kind of ache, they might take aspirin to fix that. |
| Here's an example. |
| I took a pill of aspirin. |
| antibiotic |
| Antibiotic might also be pronounced antibiotic. |
| You might hear both of those, but an antibiotic is supposed to kill kind of bacteria, something that's causing an infection in the body. |
| So when we take antibiotics, it's specifically targeting a certain kind of germ. |
| Here's an example. |
| The infection improved when she started taking an antibiotic. |
| vaccine |
| A vaccine is like a preventative medicine. |
| It's something that we take before, something that we receive before we get sick. |
| So we usually have vaccines for very dangerous kinds of illnesses. |
| We take the vaccine or we get a vaccine injection, which protects us from the more severe types of reactions we might have if we get sick with that disease. |
| Here's an example. |
| I recently got an injection of the H1N1 vaccine. |
| 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 word that means something that we put inside the vein of the body, for example, medicine? |
| intravenous |
| And how to say the expression that means the location where the doctor and his staff or her staff do their practice. |
| doctor's office |
| How about the word that means the device you use to measure the temperature of your body? |
| thermometer |
| Do you remember how to say the very, very sharp piece of metal that is at the end of a syringe to push medicine into the body? |
| needle |
| Let's try the expression that means to wash your body while sitting inside water. |
| take a bath |
| What about the expression that means that you are not healthy? |
| sick |
| Now, let's see if you remember how to say the word that means the medicine that you take specifically for cough problems. |
| cough syrup |
| Another one. What about the word that means the type of medicine that many people commonly take to help with pain? |
| aspirin |
| Do you remember how to say the type of medicine that is targeted for infections? |
| antibiotic |
| And finally, do you remember how to say the type of medicine that we get before we become sick with something in order to protect ourselves from severe problems? |
| vaccine |
| Well done! See you next time. Bye! |
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