I. Give the Russian equivalents of the following word-combinations

Physical condition: to be in good health; to be up and about; to be/to look the picture of health; to feel on the top of the world; to have never felt better; to be in the pink (выглядеть здоровым); to be in good/bad shape; to prosper, to thrive, to come round; keep well!; to wish a speedy recovery; to be completely run down/washed out; (not) to feel up to the mark; to feel under the weather (чувствовать себя не совсем хорошо); to take a turn for the better; to be completely recovered; to be depressed/tired all the time; health is failing/is picking up; to be on the mend/over the worst; to get over the illness.

How are you?; how do you feel?; to feel all right/very well/quite well/much better/a great deal better/so-so/very much the same; to get better/worse; to feel miserable/awkward/bad/nervous; to be quite well/well/ unwell/not at all/bad; to be ill; to be taken ill; to fall ill with smth./to be laid up with smth.

Consulting a doctor:medical assistance; a district/visiting doctor; to go to/to consult/to see a doctor; to send/to call for a doctor; to call/to telephone for an ambulance; to make/to have an appointment with a doctor/to enter one’s name on the reception; consulting hours; to see a patient/an invalid.

Patient’s complaints: What is the matter with you?; What is troubling you?; What is your complaint?; What are you suffering from?; What are you worried about?

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To complain of smth.; complaint; something is wrong with my eyes(etc.); to have/to feel a pain in the side/the back, etc.; to have chest pains; to have a slight/splitting/bad headache/a stomach-ache/a toothache/an earache/a backache/a sore throat/finger/leg/running/stuffy nose/watery eyes; to have the tooth working loose (шататься (о зубе)); to have a rash on my chest/spots/a bruise on my leg/a black eye/a lump on my arm/ indigestion/diarrhoea/painful joints/blisters/sunburn/an abdominal pain (stomach ache)/nausea/vomiting; to be/to feel sick/dizzy/breathless /shivery/faint/ worn out/lassitude/particularly bad at night; to have an inflamed throat; to have lost one’s appetite/voice; not to be able to sleep, the nose itches and the leg hurts; to feel feverish, fever; to feel/to be giddy/constipated; to be unconscious; to get poisoned; to suffer from headache/pain; to be nervous; to have a weak/bad heart attack; to catch a slight/bad cold in one’s head (насморк); to have a slight/bad cough; to sneeze; to run/to have a temperature; the temperature fails/drops/goes down/rises/goes up; to be hoarse; to have heart/lung/kidney/liver trouble; to injure; to sprain; to have swollen cheek/a swelling; (to) scald; to swell; to get a splinter into one’s finger; to have complications.

What kind of pain do you have?; cutting/sharp/severe/dull/slight pain; What relieves the pain?; What is the pain relieved by?; It can be relieved by rest/drugs/particular food/fasting (пост), to cause pain; to cry with pain; to cease/to pass (about the pain); to feel/to have/to experience pain.

Examining a Patient: to have a thorough medical check-up; to examine a patient; to take one’s temperature; to listen to/to sound one’s chest/lungs; to feel one’s pulse; to see one’s tongue; to look in one’s ears; to take one’s blood pressure; to have high/low/normal blood pressure; to strip to the waist; to hold one’s breath; to take a deep breath; to be X-rayed/have an X-ray taken; to have analyses taken; to have a blood test taken; to diagnose; diagnosis (-es); to weigh/to measure a patient; to send a patient to hospital (for further tests).

Medical advice and medical treatment: to treat s.o. for some disease; to be treated for s.o.; to take treatments for smth.; to cure s.o. of one’s disease; to get cured of smth.; to be (away) on sick-leave; to put s.o. on sick-leave/to give/to grant s.o. sick-leave/a certificate of ill-health (coll.); to go on the sick (coll.); to keep one’s bed/to stay in bed; to give/to take smth. for the flue, etc.; remedy for; to take a spoonful of smth.; to recover/recovery; to get rid of a disease; to be in hospital/the maternity home/the resort/the rest home/the sanatorium/the ward; to cup; to put cups/a hot water bottle(грелка)/medical baths; to get drops; to have an inoculation against smth.; to use mustard plaster/ointment; prevention (профилактика); to be on/to keep a diet; to be operated on; to operate/to perform an operation for smth.; to fill/to stop a tooth; filling/stopping; to pull out a tooth; to have a tooth pulled out/filled; to inject of smth.; to have an injection of smth.; to put a plaster bandage on/to put smth. in; to apply a splint; to dress/bandage/bind; to make bandaging; to take out the stitch; to gargle one’s throat (with some medicine); to have electrical treatments (физиопроцедуры); to be under a doctor’s care; to discover a disease; to die of a disease/an illness/heart failure/hunger/grief/shame; to die from wounds/ loss of blood.

What does the doctor prescribe?

· take one spoonful three times a day after meals;

· take a teaspoonful last thing at night;

· rub a little on before going to bed each night;

· get the nurse to put a bandage on;

· have some injections before you go;

· fit the patient in for an operation;

· have your leg put in plaster;

· have total bed rest for a week.

At the chemist’s (pharmacy): to make up a prescription/to write out a prescription; to have a prescription filled; to take the medicine over-the-counters (получить лекарство без рецепта); mixture; pills; (chewable) tablets; caplets; capsules; syrup; powders; drops; nasal spray; ointment; iodine; cotton; cups; pain-killer (coll.); plaster; mustard plaster.

Names of the specialists: general practitioner, physician, oculist, surgeon, ear, nose and throat specialist/doctor, eyes-specialist, dentist, neuropathist, cardiologist, oncologist, paediatrician (children doctor), psychiatrist, therapeutist, gynaecologist, midwife, doctor’s assistant, medical laboratory technician.

In hospital: health protection, public health services,health insurance certificate, in/out-patient, surgical unit, operating theatre, anaesthesia and breathing apparatus, consulting room, waiting room, reception, casualty ward, surgery, treatment room, ambulance, patients’ file, appointments book, medical/patient record/card, strether(s), forceps, medicine cupboard/block, instrument basin, steam sterilizer, storage unit, cabinet (застеклённый шкафчик), examination couch, roll of adhesive plaster (sticking plaster), sterile gauze (бинт), dressing (перевязочный), pipette, pipetting device/intravenous drips (капельница), probe (зонт), spirit lamp.

Diseases (additional): a boil, a brain haemorrhage, a bug, a heart attack, a running nose, a sore throat, a virus, AIDS, an acute respiratory disorder, an ulcer, angina, appendicitis, arteriosclerosis, asthma, blood-poisoning, broken wrist, bronchitis, cancer, caries of teeth, chickenpox, chill, cholera, consumption=tuberculosis, a cut, diabetes, diphtheria, dizziness, dysentery, fracture, gastritis, giddiness, headache, heart disease, heartburn, inflammation of the middle ear, injury, insomnia, lassitude, leprosy, lung cancer, malaria, the (German) measles, migraine, mumps, nausea, paralysis, the plague, pneumonia, polio, quinsy, radiculitis, rash, rheumatism, running eyes, scarlet fever, scald, shortness of breath, small pox, sneezing, sprained/dislocated ankle, the grippe (flu), toothache, typhoid fever, typhus, whopping cough, pregnancy, hypochondria.