Doctors are those people who save our lives, prescribe medicines to us so that we can recover from our illness.
Whenever you visit to your doctor there are a lot of English terms that you might need to be able to understand and communicate. Therefore it becomes important to understand the conversation and the things that are happening at the doctor because your health is the most important thing you have.
Now let’s have a look at those words that would help us while we are having a conversation with doctors.
Visiting a Doctor Conversation English Words
| Words | Meaning |
| Accident and emergency | A department in a hospital to treat emergency cases like accidents. |
| Ache | Refers to a pain that is often at a low level but constant, often in a joints |
| Allergy | A reaction to something that causes a rash or other symptoms |
| Antibiotics | A type of medicine that is used to treat infections by bacteria. |
| Appointment | The specific time and place of a meeting between people |
| Bacteria | Very small organisms that can cause illnesses |
| Bed rest | To stay in bed until better |
| Better | To have stopped being ill, to have recovered. |
| Casualty | A department in a hospital to treat urgent cases. |
| Chemist | A place, or shop, where medicines are kept, prepared and sold |
| Cold | An illness of the nose and throat that is caused by a virus. |
| Consulting room | The room where a doctor meets with patients in private. |
| Cough | To empty the lungs of air quickly and often noisily |
| Cure | To make a person better when they have an illness. |
| Dehydrated | To not have enough water in the body. |
| Diagnosis | To look at the patient’s symptoms and decide what is wrong with them. |
| Disease | Something that causes a person’s health to be bad. |
| Doctor | A person trained to treat ill people |
| Emergency room | A department in a hospital to treat urgent cases. |
| Examine | The process of studying a patient to see what is wrong |
| Fever | To have a high temperature. |
| Flu | A viral disease that causes a high temperature |
| Food poisoning | An infection in the stomach from eating food that was not properly prepared |
| General Practitioner | A doctor that works in surgery in the local community and not a hospital. |
| Headache | Pain in the head. |
| Health center | A building where General Practitioners and nurses work |
| Hospital | A place where patients go when they are too ill to stay at home |
| House call | When a doctor visits patients in their home |
| Infection | When the body is being attacked by a bacteria, fungus or virus |
The above list includes a mix of disease and illness words, along with some words related to Hospital and medicines. Knowledge of these words will help you in having a proper conversation with your doctor.
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