Primer Parcial

Vocabulary section

1. Choose the synonym or antonym of the words below, they appear in the text above

Antonym: Local Widespread

Antonym: be calm Despair
Synonym: Burn Scaled
Synonym: Exacerbated Increased
Synonym: Determine Pinpoint
Antonym: Peacefulness Anxiety

2. What are their synonyms?

Knowledge and skill Expertise cured Healed

injury Wound bedridden Prostrated in bed
bandage Dressing restoration Reconstruction

3. What are their antonyms?

Permanent Temporary Unsightly Pleasant

Bleaching Darkening Benign Malignant
Improve Get worse Flaccid Firm

4. Circle the Correct Collocations

1) Some people need to gain weight

2) My friend contracted Ebola when he was working in Africa
3) The doctor established the diagnosis of renal failure
4) The ability to tolerate pain may change with age
5) That doctor performed physical examination in different orders
6) The authors recommend a wide range of foods to maintain physical fitness
7) Similar procedures may be used to predict a person´s prognosis after a heart attack
8) The doctor feels the pulse in arteries in the neck, beneath the arms.
9) Antacids provide relief more quickly than H2 blockers
10) Respirators can pose some risk for people with heart or lungs ailments

5. What is the Spanish for?

Skin graft Injerto de piel Reconstructive ladder Reconstruccion a escala
Check-up chequeo Free flaps Colgajos libres
Breast reduction Reduccion de mamas Cleft lips Labio leporino
Webbed toes Dedos palmeados bedsores Escaras
Grammar section
1. Change into the passive voice if it is possible

1.- Skilled plastic surgeons provide a wide range of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery service
A wide range of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery service is provided by skilled plastic surgeons
2.- There are three plastic surgeon practicing at Mayo Clinic in Florida
There is no Possible
3.- At Jhon Hopkins, our surgeons have done thousands of reconstructive and plastic surgeons
Thousands of reconstructive and plastic surgeons have been done by surgeons
4.- The doctor can stop the patient´s pain with this injection
The patient´s pain can be stopped with that injection
5.- A surgeon sometimes does a skin graft to protect the skin from more damage
A skin graft is sometimes done to protect the skin from more damage

2.- Make sentences including relative clauses

1.- Bedsores can develop in patients. Patients have been bedridden for long periods of time

Bedsores can develop in patients who have been bedridden for long periods of time

2.- Bedsores can be treated non-surgically. Bedsores can lead to dangerous medical complications
like bone or blood infection

Bedsores, that can lead to dangerous medical complications like bone or blood infection, can be
treated non-surgically

3.-These scars have remained of the burn. They are all

These scars, which they are all, have remained of the burn

4.- A skin graft consists of epidermis together with a variable quantity of dermis. The dermis I used to
cover a skin defect.

A skin graft consists of epidermis together with a variable quantity dermis that is used to cover a skin
defect