Aihepiiri 3 HEALTH
Teksti
Anorexia | an emotional disorder, especially affecting young women, in which there is an abnormal fear of being fat, causing the person to stop eating, leading to dangerous weight loss. | Anoreksia | |
Bulimia | an emotional disorder in which a person repeatedly eats too much and then forces him- or herself to vomit. | Bulimia | |
Anxiety | the state of feeling nervous or worried that something bad is going to happen. | some hospital patients experience high levels of anxiety. | Ahdistus |
Neurosis | a mental illness in which a person suffers strong feelings of fear and worry. | Those of anxious temperament are more likely to develop anxiety neurosis. | Neuroosi |
Trauma | mental condition caused by severe shock, especially when the harmful effects last for a long time. | the effects of trauma and stress on the body. | Trauma |
Abortion | the deliberate ending of a pregnancy at an early stage. | a woman’s right to abortion | Abortti |
Lobotomy | a rare medical operation that cuts into part of a person’s brain in order to treat mental illness. | Lobotomia | |
Amputation | the act of cutting off somebody's arm, leg, finger or toe in a medical operation. | A boyhood accident led to the amputation of one of his legs. | Amputaatio |
Stitch | one of the small lines of thread that you can see on a piece of cloth after it has been sewn; the action that produces this | try to keep the stitches small and straight. | Ommel |
Blood type | any of the different types that human blood is separated into for medical purposes. | Veriryhmä |
Teksti
Strain | pressure on a system or relationship because great demands are being placed on it. | The transport service cannot cope with the strain of so many additional passengers. | Rasittaa |
Bleed | to lose blood, especially from a wound or an injury. | My finger's bleeding. | Vuotaa verta |
Trauma | a mental condition caused by severe shock, especially when the harmful effects last for a long time. | the effects of trauma and stress on the body | Trauma |
Rupture | an injury in which something inside the body breaks apart or bursts. | the rupture of a blood vessel | Repeämä |
Scar | a mark that is left on the skin after a wound has got better. | scar tissue | Arpi |
Asthma | a medical condition of the chest that makes breathing difficult. | a severe asthma attack | Astma |
Celiac | having or connected with celiac disease, a condition in which food containing gluten causes somebody to become ill. | celiac children/patients | Keliakia |
Corona | a ring of light seen around the sun or moon, especially during an eclipse. | a ring of light seen around the sun or moon, especially during an eclipse | Korona |
Diabetes | a medical condition in which the body cannot produce enough insulin to control the amount of sugar in the blood. | can be life threatering | Diapetes |
Leukaemia | a serious disease in which too many white blood cells are produced, causing weakness and sometimes death. | The newspapers are full of stories of leukaemia clusters near nuclear establishments. | Leukemia |
Teksti
Autism | a mental disorder that starts in early childhood, in which a person finds it very difficult to communicate or form relationships with others and often shows limited or repeated patterns of thought and behaviour. | Autismi | |
Distressed | very upset and anxious. | He was too distressed and confused to answer their questions. | Ahdistunut |
Fracture | a break in a bone or other hard material. | Old people's bones are more prone to fracture. | Murtuma |
Addiction | the condition of being unable to stop using or doing something as a habit, especially something harmful. | He is now fighting his addiction to alcohol. | Riippuvuus |
Dementia | a serious mental diskorded caused by brain disease or injury, that affects the ability to think, remember and behave normally. | Patients with dementia. | Dementtia |
Salmonella | a type of bacteria that makes people sick if they eat food that contains it; an illness caused by this bacteria. | ases of salmonella poisoning. | Salmonella |
Burn out | the state of being extremely tired or ill, either physically or mentally, because you have worked too hard. | he point at which a rocket has used all of its fuel and has no more power. | Loppuun palaminen |
Sunburned | uffering from sunburn. | Her shoulders were badly sunburned. | Auringon polttama |
Paralysis | a loss of control of, and sometimes feeling in, part or most of the body, caused by disease or an injury to the nerves. | Paralysis of both legs. | Halvaus |
Inflammation | a condition in which a part of the body becomes red, painful and swollen because of infection or injury. | I used a cream to reduce the inflammation. |
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