Unit 2 Nursing assessment

Word advisor (n) Definition someone whose job is to give advice because they know a lot about a subject Translation asesor (n)

antibiotics (n pl)

drugs that are used to kill bacteria and antibiticos (n) cure infections helping to prevent infection to move part of your body so that it is not straight a small quantity of a drug that increases the effect of one that was given before, so that someone continues to be protected against a disease antisptico (adj) doblar (v)

antiseptic (adj) bend (v)

booster (n)

dosis de refuerzo (n)

bronchitis (n)

an illness which affects your bronchial bronquitis (n) tubes and makes you cough a pink liquid that you put on sore, locin de calamina (n) itchy or sunburned skin to make it less painful an infectious illness which causes a slight fever and spots on your skin the period of time when you are a child happening often and to many people or in many places a small flat sweet cake a soft round object made from the viruela (n)

calamine lotion (n)

chicken pox (n)

childhood (n)

niez (n)

common (adj)

comn (adj)

cookie (n) cotton ball (n)

galleta (n) disco de algodn (n)

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Word

Definition cotton plant, often used to clean the skin

Translation

cough (n)

the action or sound made when you cough the country in which you were born

tos (n)

country of origin (phr) disease (n) disinfect (v)

pas de origen (n)

an illness which affects a person to clean something with a chemical that destroys bacteria feeling unable to stand steadily (= date of birth) the date, month and year you were born a pain inside your ear to suddenly become unconscious for a short time an illness or a medical condition in which you have a very high temperature without payment the fact of being male or female an organ of the body which produces a substance that the body needs (= general practitioner) a doctor who is trained in general medicine and treats people in a particular area the place where the tops of your legs meet the front of your body using a lot of effort a pain in your head a medicine that reduces pain, inflammation and fever

enfermedad (n) desinfectar (v)

dizzy (adj) DOB (n)

mareado (adj) fecha de nacimiento (n)

earache (n) faint (v)

dolor de odo (n) desmayarse (v)

fever (n)

fiebre(n)

free of charge (phr) gender (n) gland (n)

gratuito (adj) gnero (n) glndula (n)

GP (n)

mdico de medicina general (n)

groin (n)

ingle (n)

hard (adv) headache (n) ibuprofen (n)

duro (adv) dolor de cabeza (n) ibuprofeno (n)

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Word infectious (adj)

Definition an infectious illness can be passed from one person to another if part of your body is itchy, it feels slightly unpleasant and you want to rub it with your nails whether someone is married; used especially on official forms

Translation infeccioso (adj)

itchy (adj)

irritado (adj)

marital status (n)

estado civil (n)

measles (n)

an infectious illness in which you have sarampin (n) a fever and small red spots on your face and body triple vrica (sarampin, (= measles, mumps and rubella) a paperas y rubeola) (n) vaccine against the diseases of measles, mumps and rubella, given to babies at around 13 months old and again when children are around four or five years old an infectious illness which makes your paperas (n) neck swell and become painful feeling that you are going to vomit a very thin, pointed steel tube at the end of a syringe which is pushed into your skin to put a drug or medicine into your body or to take out blood your closest living relative or relatives the part of a persons face used for smelling or breathing a job or profession a common drug used to reduce pain someone who has a part-time job works for only part of each day or week a collection of documents that provides an account of each time a patient visited or sought treatment nusea (n) aguja (n)

MMR (n)

mumps (n)

nauseous (adj) needle (n)

next of kin (n) nose (n)

familiar ms cercano (n) nariz (n)

occupation (n) paracetamol (n) part-time (adj)

profesin (n) paracetamol (n) a tiempo parcial (adj)

patient record (n)

historial del paciente (n)

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Word

Definition and received care from a health care facility

Translation

pin prick (n)

slight pain you get when something sharp goes into your skin a piece of thin material that is stuck on to the skin to protect it to keep someone or something safe from harm, damage or illness a registered nurse who helps people prevent health issues and improve their health and well being a lot of red spots on someone's skin, caused by an illness making you feel less worried or frightened to become quiet and calm after you have been upset or nervous, or to make someone do this a period of time when you are not doing anything tiring an infectious disease that causes red spots on your body and can damage an unborn child a runny nose, runny eyes, etc. have liquid coming out of them, usually because you have a cold a small part or amount of something that is examined in order to find out something about the whole a serious infectious illness causing a sore throat and red spots on the skin the natural outer layer of a person's body the part of a piece of clothing that covers all or part of your arm

pinchazo (n)

plaster (n)

esparadrapo (n)

protect (v)

proteger (v)

public health nurse (n)

enfermera del servicio pblico de asistencia sanitaria (n) sarpullido (n)

rash (n)

reassuring (adj)

tranquilizador (adj)

relax (v)

relajarse (v)

rest (n)

descanso (n)

rubella (n)

rubeola (n)

runny (adj)

nariz moqueante, ojos llorosos (n-adj)

sample (n)

muestra (n)

scarlet fever (n)

escarlatina (n)

skin (n)

piel (n)

sleeve (n)

manga (n)

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Word sore (adj)

Definition a part of your body that is sore is painful because of infection or because you have used a muscle too much

Translation dolorido, llagado (adj)

specimen tube (n)

a round pipe made of glass that tubo de muestras (n) contains a small amount of bodily fluid taken from a person to be sent for testing pain in your stomach or near your stomach the name that you share with your parents or often with your husband if you are a married woman, and which in English comes at the end of your full name covered or wet with sweat a part of your body that is swollen is bigger than usual, especially because you are ill or injured something wrong with your body or mind which shows that you have a particular illness an instrument for taking blood from someone's body or putting liquid, drugs, etc. into it; consists of a hollow plastic tube and a needle a measure of how hot or cold a place or thing is the passage from the back of your mouth to the top of the tubes that go down to your lungs and stomach very firmly or closely dolor de estmago (n)

stomachache (n)

surname (n)

apellidos (n)

sweaty (adj) swollen (adj)

sudoroso (adj) hinchado (adj)

symptom

sntoma (n)

syringe (n)

jeringa (n)

temperature (n)

temperatura (n)

throat (n)

garganta (n)

tightly (adv) title (n)

firmemente adv)

a name, e.g. 'Sir', 'Professor', or tratamiento (n) abbreviation, e.g. 'Mrs', 'Dr' that are used before someone's name to show their rank or profession, whether they are married, etc.

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Word tongue (n)

Definition the soft part inside your mouth that you can move about and use for eating and speaking a band of cloth that is twisted tightly around an injured arm or leg to stop it bleeding a substance which contains a weak form of the bacteria or virus that causes a disease and is used to protect people from that disease one of the tubes which carries blood to your heart from other parts of your body a popular interactive video game console a special piece of wet material that you use to clean someone or something and then throw away

Translation lengua (n)

tourniquet (n)

torniquete (n)

vaccine (n)

vacuna (n)

vein (n)

vena (n)

Wii (n)

Wii (n)

wipe (n)

toallita (n)

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