INGLÉS MEDICINA(1ºPARCIAL)

FORMING MEDICAL WORDS

-Periodontal:Peri(around) +dental(teeth)=around teeth
-Leukoderma:Leuko(white) + derma(skin)=white skin
-Pathogenic:Patho(diseaase) + genic(producicry)=disease produciry
-Herniorrhapy:Hernio(vertebra) +rrhapy(suture)=vertebra suture
-Gastrostomy:Gastro(Stomach) +stomy(opening)=stomach opening
-Dermatosis:Dermat(skin) + osis(condition)
-Arthritis:Arthr(blood vessel) + itis(inflamation)
-Cardialgia:Cardi(health) + algia(pain)
-Encephalomalacia:Encephal(brain) +malacia(softering)
-Tendoplasty:Tendo(tendón) +plasty(surgery)
-Pyorrhoea:Py/o(pus) + rrhoea(flow or discharge)
-Oncogenic:Onc/o(tumour) + genic(producing or causing)
-Xanthoderma:Xanth/o(yellow) +derma(skin)

VOCABULARY
-Physician:Is the person specialleted in treatment.Is a medical doctor that has or not
specialition
-GP: (General Practioner)Is the main doctor that You have
-Family Doctor:Doctor that Know most of You.
-Specialist:Doctor that depends on your type of problema
-Consultant:Specialist in the Uk --( doctor in a hospital who is an expert in
a particular medical subject.)
-Opthalmologist: a doctor who is an expert in illnesses of the eyes and who
can perform operations on people’s eyes

-Optician=Optometrist: someone
whose job isto test people’s sight and make and sell glasses. The shop that
they work in is also called an optician or an optician’s.
-Oculist: an ophthalmologist or optician

-Paramedic/Paramedical
. Paramedic: someone who is trained to give medical treatment to people at
the place where an accident has happened
.Paramedical: helping doctors and nurses to provide medical treatment

-Hospitals: a place where people stay when they are ill

or injured and need a lot of care from doctors and nurses
-Outpatient clinics:(consultas externas)
-Nursing Homes:
-Extended care facilities:
-Alleviate: to make something less painful, severe, or serious.
-Inhale: to breathe air, smoke, or other substances into your lungs
-Patient: someone who is receiving medical treatment
-Revive: to make someone become conscious or alive again
Traumatic:traumatic experience or event makes you feel very upset, afraid, or shocked
-Patience: the ability to continue doing something for a long time
without losing interest, especiallysomething difficult

-Relieved: happy and relaxed because something bad has not happened or because

a bad situation has ended
-Stabilized: to reach a state where there are no longer any major changes or problems
-Surgeon:A physician who specialize in the treatment of diseases ,injuries and
deformities by manual or opérate methods.
-Arthritis:Inflamation of a joint
-Asthma:Is a chronic inflamatory disease
-Cancer:Is not just one disease.Is two main characters are uncontolled grawth of the
cells in the human body,and the ability of these cells to migrate from the original site
to distant sites.
-AIDS:
acquired immune deficiency syndrome: serious disease that destroys the
body’s immunesystem (=its ability to defend itself against infection) and usually causes 
death. AIDS is passedfrom one person to another through
body fluids (=liquids), especially blood and semen. People first become HIV-
positive and then develop full-blown AIDS
-Asthma: a medical condition that makes it difficult to breathe
-Heart attack: a serious medical condition in which the heart does not get
enough blood, causing great pain and often leading to death
-Haemorrhage: a large flow of blood from
a damaged blood vessel (= tube carrying bloodaround the body)
-Influenza:a common infectious illness that causes fever and headache
-Multiple Sclerosis: a disease in which the covering of
the nerves gradually becomesdestroyed, damaging a
person's speech and sight and ability to move

-Tubercolosis: A serious infections disease that can atack many parts of a

body,especially their lungs.
-Tumour:A  mass of diseased cells that might become a lump or cause illness
-Ulcer: a break in the skin, or on the surface of an organ inside the body, that does
not heal naturally.
CONGENITAL DISEASES/HEREDITARY ABNORMALITIES:
Congenital disorder:Are present from birth.
Hereditary Disorders:Are transmitted from parents to their childrem through the
genes.
-Anaesthetist: a doctor who is trained to give people anaesthetics. 
-Dentist :someone whose job is to examine and treat people’s teeth.
-Midwife: a nurse whose job is to look after women when they are giving birth to
a baby
-Nurse: someone who is trained to look after ill or injured people, usually in a hospital
-Nutricionist: Someone who is an expert on nutrition
-Obstetrician:
a doctor whose job isto check the health of pregnant women and help with
the birth of their children
-Occupational therapist: someone whose job is to treat physical or mental illness by
giving patients activities and helping them do things they want or need to do.
-Orthodontist: a person whose job is to correct the position of the teeth

-Orthopaedist: a doctor who specializes in the treatment of bones that have

not growncorrectly or that have been damaged

-Paeditrician: a doctor who has special training in medical care for children

-Pharmacist: a person who is trained to prepare and give out medicines in

a hospitalor shop.
-Physiotherapist: someone who treats people using physiotherapy

-Radiographer: a person who operates a machine that uses radiation, especially X-rays,

to take pictures of the inside of people or things, or for the treatment of disease

-Radiologist: a person who specializes in radiology(a medical treatment in
which radiation is used for treating an illness, or the study of this type of treatment.
Someone who is trained in radiology is a radiologist.)
-Surgeon:a doctor whois specially trained to performmedical operations

-MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY (WORD PARTS)

-arthr:joint
-Haemo:Blood
-Sclero:Straight,right,upright,regular
-Dent/dont:Teeth
-Ortho:
-Nutri:food
-Obstet:Women in childbirth
-Therap:Heal,cure,tratment,derviche done to the..
-Paedia/pedia:Children,infants
-Physio:Nature

UNIT 2:HUMAN ANATOMY

-VOCABULARY:
-Human anatomy:The study of the structure and organs of the human body.It includes
gross anatomy(structures that can be seen with the naked eye) and microscopic
anatomy or histology(the study of tissues under a microscope)
-System:A group of structures or organs related to each other and working together to
perform certain functions
-Cardiovascular(circulatory system):The system that carries blood to various parts of
the body.It consits of the heart,blood vessels and lymphatic system.
-Digestive system:All the organs and glands involved in the ingestión and digestión of
food,from the mouth to the anus.
-Endocrine system:The ductless glands that produce internal secretions and secrete
these directly into the blood or lymph and circulate it to all body parts.These glands
include the thyroid,parathyroid,adrenal cortex,adrenal medulla,anterior
pituitary,posterior pituitary,testes and ovaries.
-Intergumentary system;The skin(the largest organ in the body) and its associated
structures,incluiding hair,nails and sweat and sebaceous glands.
-Nervous system:A system of nerve cells including the brain,cranial nerves,spinal
cord,spinal nerves,autonomic ganglia,and other nerves that handle the functions of
reception of and response to stimuli.The nervous sytem regulates and cordinates
bodily activities and enables the body to adjust to external and internal changes.
-Reproductive system:Is the biological system made up of all organs involved in sexual
reproduction
-Respiratory system:Network of organs and tissues that help you breathe.
-Skeletal-Muscular system:The body system that provides
support,stability,shape(forma)
-Urinary system:Works on filter,removing toxins and wastes from your body through
urine.
-Atria:The upper chambers of the heart.
-Ventricles:The lower chambers of the heart,which,when filled with blood.
-Epidermis:The protectuve outer layer,which contains pigment-forming cells that
determine skin color.
-Dermis:The middle layer,which contains blood vessels,sweat glands,and nerves that
convey sensation.
-Subcutis:The layer bellow the dermis.It contains blood vessels,nerves and connective
tissue for padding,insulation against heat and cold,and storage of food and wáter.
-Blood vessels:A tuve that carries blood.
-Gland:An organized collection of tissue that can manufacture and release a secretion
which is then used in some other part of the body.
-Muscle:Tissue cimposed of fibres that produce movement
-Tendon:Fibrous connective tissue that attaches muscles to boneas and to other
muscles.

FORMING THE PLURAL OF SOME MEDICAL TERMS:

1. Atrium--Atria
2. Bronchus—Bronchi
3. Ganglion---Ganglions
4. Stimulus---Stimulli
5. Pleura---Pleural
6. Testis---Testes
7. Vertebra---Vertebrae
8. Cranium---Crania
9. Villus---Villus
10. Alveolus---Alveoli
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY(PREFFIX)

-Cardi(o):heart
-Cerebr(o):
-Cutane-:
-Dermo/Dermato:Skin
-Histo:Tissues
-Leuc(o):White
-Peri:Around
-Pharyng(o):pharynx
- -stalsis:Contración
-Systol-:Contracción of the hearth
-Vas(o):Duct,blood vessel
-Eruthr(o):red

MEDICAL ENGLISH/GENERAL ENGLISH

1. Clavicle:Collarbone
2. Larynx:Voice box
3. Patella:Kneecap
4. Phalanges:Bones of finger or toe
5. Scapula:Shoulder blade
6. Sternum:Breastbone
7. Trachea:Windpipe
8. Uterus:Womb
9. Vertebral column:Spine
10. Gingiva:Gum
11. Inflammation:Swelling
12. Cranium:Skull
13. Cerebro-vascular accident:Stroke
14. Dental calculus:Tartar
15. Third molar:Wisdom teeth
16. Confusion:Bruise(moratón)

ORGANS:
1.Heart
2.Inferior vena cava
3.Urethra
4.Bladder:Vejiga
5.Small intestine
6.Oesophagus
7.Spleen:Bazo
8.Pancreas
 9.Kidney(s)
10.Appendix
11.Gallbladder
12.Superior vena cava
13.Large intestine
14.Lung(s):pulmón
15.Liver:Hígado
16.Aorta
17.Rectum
18.Trachea
19.Ureter
20.Thyroid
21.Stomach
22.Diaphragm

OJO:-PARA DEFINIR LUGARES:MEDICAL INSTITUTION WHERE

-PARA PERSONAS:HEALTH CARE PROVIDED WHO