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  • plaster (n)
    a thin piece of cloth or plastic that sticks to your skin to cover a cut
  • need
    to do; need doing; in need of; no need for
  • disease (n)
    an illness that affects people, animals or plants
  • healthy (adj)
    physically strong and not ill
  • Looking like death warmed up
    Looking extremely ill
  • on the mend
    feeling better after an illness or injury
  • under the weather
    not feeling well
  • clinic (n)
    a place where people go to receive a particular type of medical treatment or advice
  • Off his rocker
    mad
  • illness (n)
    a particular disease, or a period of being ill
  • fix (n)
    an amount of drug that someone feels that they need to take regularly
  • Given up the ghost
    die
  • to hurt
    to feel pain somewhere in your body
  • suffer
    from sth; suffer sth
  • On the road to recovery
    getting better
  • going around
    what is said of an illness that is affecting many people
  • pull through
    survive (a serious illness, etc)
  • lead
    to sth/(your) doing
  • at death's door
    likely to die soon
  • operate
    on sb/sth
  • fever (n)
    a medical condition in which the temperature of your body is very high
  • tired
    of sth/doing
  • put down
    kill (a sick/old animal)
  • take a turn for the worse
    to become sicker, instead of becoming healthier
  • prescription (n)
    a piece of paper that a doctor gives you that says what type of medicine you need
  • As fit as a fiddle
    perfectly well
  • get over
    recover from (an illness, etc)
  • recipe (n)
    a set of instructions for cooking or preparing a particular meal
  • addicted
    to sth
  • remedy (n)
    a cure for pain or for a minor illness
  • to have one foot in the grave
    seriously ill
  • infection (n)
    the process of becoming infected with a disease
  • give up
    stop doing sth you do regularly
  • Bitten the dust
    Die
  • inject
    sth into sth/sb
  • pollution (n)
    chemicals and other substances that have a harmful effect on air, water, or land
  • bring on
    cause (an illness, etc)
  • Kicked the bucket
    die
  • cut down (on)
    do less of (smoking, etc); reduce an amount of
  • dose (n)
    a particular amount of a drug or medicine that has been measured so that you can take it
  • to investigate
    to try to find out all the facts about something in order to learn the truth about it
  • not right in the head
    madcrazy
  • A basket case
    A crazy person
  • feel blue
    depressed
  • pain (n)
    a bad feeling in part of your body when you are hurt or become ill
  • slim (adj)
    thin in an attractive way
  • Recharge your batteries
    get back your energy and enthusiasm
  • have bags under your eyes
    to have dark circles under your eyes, a sign of being tired
  • Feel off color
    to feel unwell
  • attempt
    to do
  • come down with something
    to begin to get sick
  • be in bad shape
    not healthy, feeling well or in pain
  • Fallen off his perch
    die
  • surgery (n)
    medical treatment in which a doctor cuts open someone's body
  • touch and go
    extremely uncertain, you might have died or lived
  • worth
    sth/doing
  • cope
    with sth/sb
  • pass out
    suddenly become unconscious
  • be or get back on one's feet
    to recover and feel healthy again
  • do you a world of good
    to make you feel better
  • come down with
    start to suffer from a minor illness
  • pull through (an illness)
    to recover or feel healthy again
  • Off her trolley
    mad
  • ward (n)
    a large room in a hospital with beds for people to stay in
  • upset your stomach
    when something you eat makes you feel uncomfortable or ill
  • to examine
    lo look at something or someone carefully
  • wear off
    stop being effective (for a drug, etc)
  • put on
    gain (weight)
  • operation (n)
    the process of cutting into someone's body for medical reasons
  • bandage (n)
    a long thin piece of cloth that you wrap around an injured part of your body
  • feel up to
    feel well enough to do
  • try
    to do; try sth/sb/doing; try and do
  • result (n)
    something that is caused directly by something else
  • injured (adj)
    hurt in an accident or attack
  • sore (adj)
    painful and uncomfortable, usually as a result of an injury
  • thin (adj)
    someone who has very little fat on their body
  • damaged (adj)
    harmed physically
  • have a clean bill of health
    to have nothing wrong
  • break out
    start suddenly (for a war, fire, etc)
  • run a fever
    to have a higher than normal temperature
  • complain
    (to sb) (about sth/sb doing); complain of sth
  • come round/to
    become conscious
  • worn out
    tired
  • is not all there
    mad, insane
  • fight something off
    to try not to get sick, to prevent
  • benefit
    from sth; a benefit of sth
  • rash (n)
    an area of small red spots on your skin that is caused by an illness or a reaction to something
  • Popped her clogs
    die
  • likely
    to do; it is (un)likely that
  • effect (n)
    a change that is produced in one person or thing by another
  • look after
    take care of
  • fit (adj)
    healthy, strong and able to do physical exercises
  • As right as rain
    healthyperfectly all right
  • worry
    about sth/sb doing; worried that; worried about/by
  • therapy (n)
    a form of treatment for an illness or medical condition
  • cure (n)
    a medicine or treatment that makes someone who is ill become healthy
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