Health Words Saying More than Health (4)

 

Nurse:
(a) person who takes care of sick, hurt or old people especially in hospital

(b) take care of as or like a nurse (c) hold in the mind (d) handle carefully or lovingly (e) job of being a nurse
 

Operation:
(a) cutting of the body to cure or remove a diseased part
(b) condition or process of working (c) thing (to be) done; activity (d) planned military movement  

 

Pain:
(a) suffering in body or mind; hurting
(b) case of such suffering in a particular part (c) pain in the neck – person, thing or happening that makes one angry or tired (d) on / under pain of – at the risk of suffering (a punishment) if something is not done
Pale: 

(a) (face) looks a lighter colour than usual because of illness or anxiety
(b) whitish, not bright or dark (c) become pale (d) seem less important, clever, etc. when compared with (e) limit of proper behaviour
Patient:
(a) person being treated medically
(b) showing patience
Piles:
(a) painful swellings that appear in the vein inside a person's anus
(b) lots (c) very large amount of money (d) pile – tidy heap (e) large tall building (f) make a pile of (g) come or go in a (disorderly) crowd (h) soft surface of short threads on carpets or cloth (i) heavy supporting post hammered into the ground
Pine:
(a) loss strength and health through grief
(b) have a strong desire especially that is impossible to fulfil (c) tall tree with thin sharp leaves that do not drop off in winter
Plague:
(a) quickly spreading disease that kills many people
(b) widespread uncontrollable mass or number (c) trouble or annoy continually
Pulse:
(a) regular beating of blood in the body's blood tubes
(b) strong regular beat (c) short sound or electrical charge (d) move or flow with a strong beat (e) some seeds (peas, beans, lentils) which can be cooked and eaten
 

Quack:
(a) person dishonestly claiming to be a doctor
(b) (make) the sound ducks made
Queasy:
(a) feeling one is going to be sick
(b) uncertain about the rightness of doing something
 

Rabid:
(a) suffering from rabies
(b) (of feelings or opinions) unreasoningly violent
Rash:
(a) red spots on the skin caused by illness
(b) a rash – (sudden large number) of complaints (c) without thinking enough of the (possibly bad) results
Rupture:
(a) a severe injury in which a part of the body tears or bursts open
(b) (between people) relationship ends

Posted by Aye Sat 

[To be continued]