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Presenting complaints
Lesson class lesson 1

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When you talking the history of the presenting complaint (HPC), you
often ask about pain.

1. Where do you get the

pain?
ạ ị
b n b đau ở đâu? site

2. Does the pain spread Nó có đau sang ch ỗ radiation

anywhere else? khác không?

3. Does it wake you up ứ ậ

Có hay th c d y lúc
severity
at night? khuya không?

4. Can you tell me what

the pain is like?
ư ế
Đau nh th nào? character

5. Can you describe the

pain for me?
ư ế
Đau nh th nào? character

6. How long have you the length of time that

Đau bao lâu? duration
had the pain? something lasts

the process of making

something that is
7. Is there anything
ể ế
Nó có chuy n bi n already bad even worse/the
which brings it makes it
worse/better?
ấ ố
x u/t t không?
exacerbation/alleviation
act of making something
bad such as pain or
problems less severe

8. When did it start? ắ ầ

B t đ u lúc nào? onset
the beginning of
something

9. Is there anything
trigger to cause something to start
which brings it on?

the quality of staying the

10. Is the pain
constancy same, not getting less or
constant?
more

11. Have you had the Có b trị ước đó hay

pain before? ư
ch a?
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 Non-technical terms for body

clavicle
/ˈklæv.ɪ.kəl/ n. the bone between shoulder and
neck.
collar bone xương đòn
esophagus ɑ ɡ
/ɪˈs ː.fə. əs/ n. the tube in the body that takes
gullet ự ả
th c qu n
(esophagus) food from the mouth to the stomach

sternum /ˈstɝː.nəm/ breast bone xương ức

/ˈæb.də.mən/ the lower part of a person's or

abdomen
animal's body, containing the stomach, bowels,
and other organs, or the end of an
tummy, belly b ngụ
insect's body

umbilicus
/ʌmˈbɪl.ə.kəs/ the long tube of flesh joining the
baby to its mother has been cut at birth
navel, belly -
button
ố
r n

/ɪnˈtes·tənz/ a long tube through which food

intestines travels while it is being digested after leaving the gut, bowels ru tộ
stomach

carpus
ɑ
/ˈk ːr.pəs/ the bones between the hand and the
wrist xương cổ tay
lower part of the arm that form the wrist

patella /pəˈtel.ə/ the bone at the front of the knee joint kneecap xương đầu gối

xương ống chân

/ˈtɪb.i.ə/ the large bone at the front of the lower shine bone,
tibia
leg fibula

calcaneus /kælˈkeɪ.ni.əs/ heel bone xương gót chân

xương mắt cá
talus /ˈteɪ.ləs/ the bone forming part of the ankle jount ankle bone
chân

Exercise 4/page 6
1. Mrs Evans can’t walk properly. She’s got a pain in her _____. (calcaneus)

2. He’s very tender here on the right side of the _____ near his kidneys. (abdomen)

3. Ahmed’s _____ feels as if it’s on fire when he swallows. (esophagus)

4. He damaged his _____ when he fell on the pavement. (patella)

5. James has got a crushing pain around the _____ but nothing in his arms or legs. (sternum)

6. I think there is a fracture in the _____ in the right hand. (carpus)

7. The pain radiates from around the _____ to the back. (umbilicus)

New words
properly ắ
adv. đúng đ n,

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 bình th ường
tender adj. đau painful, sore or uncomfortable when touched.

kidneys ậ
n. th n

swallow v. nuốt

feeling that something is pressing down extremely hard on a particular

crushing adj. đau
area of your body.

fracture n. gãy a break in a bone

radiate ộ
v. lan r ng

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