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    This document provides medical terms and their non-medical synonyms. It lists 14 medical terms in the left column and provides layperson explanations or descriptions of each term in the right column as non-medical synonyms. The purpose is to help identify equivalent terms between medical and non-technical language.

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    This document provides medical terms and their non-medical synonyms. It lists 14 medical terms in the left column and provides layperson explanations or descriptions of each term in the right column as non-medical synonyms. The purpose is to help identify equivalent terms between medical and non-technical language.

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    This document provides medical terms and their non-medical synonyms. It lists 14 medical terms in the left column and provides layperson explanations or descriptions of each term in the right column as non-medical synonyms. The purpose is to help identify equivalent terms between medical and non-technical language.

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    Medical/nonmedical terms

    Identify synonyms

    MEDICAL TERM NON-MEDICAL TERM

    Paraesthesia Swelling, puffiness

    Productive cough Indigestion

    Anaesthesia Coughing phlegm or spit

    Retrosternal chest pain Trouble holding your water

    Orthopnea Cramp in the leg muscles which


    comes and goes
    Stress incontinence
    Numbness
    Dysmenorrhoea
    Sleeplessness
    Dispepsia
    Breathlessness
    Oedema
    Painful periods
    Intermittent claudication
    Pain behind the breast bone
    Insomnia
    Pins and needles
    Dyspnoea
    Shortness of breath when you lie
    down.

    1 Glendinning, EH & Holmstrm, BAS (2006): English in Medicine. CUP,


    Cambridge, UK. p.19.

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