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    EVM p8-10

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    1. The document provides word association and word formation exercises to expand one's medical vocabulary. 2. For the word association exercise, participants are given sets of four words that can be linked by one missing word and are asked to identify the missing words. 3. For the word formation exercise, participants first identify the noun forms of medical verbs, then rewrite sentences changing the verbs to the corresponding nouns without changing the overall meaning. This helps learn the different forms of medical terms.

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    EVM p8-10

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    1. The document provides word association and word formation exercises to expand one's medical vocabulary. 2. For the word association exercise, participants are given sets of four words that can be linked by one missing word and are asked to identify the missing words. 3. For the word formation exercise, participants first identify the noun forms of medical verbs, then rewrite sentences changing the verbs to the corresponding nouns without changing the overall meaning. This helps learn the different forms of medical terms.

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    1. The document provides word association and word formation exercises to expand one's medical vocabulary. 2. For the word association exercise, participants are given sets of four words that can be linked by one missing word and are asked to identify the missing words. 3. For the word formation exercise, participants first identify the noun forms of medical verbs, then rewrite sentences changing the verbs to the corresponding nouns without changing the overall meaning. This helps learn the different forms of medical terms.

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    EVM p8-10

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    1. The document provides word association and word formation exercises to expand one's medical vocabulary. 2. For the word association exercise, participants are given sets of four words that can be linked by one missing word and are asked to identify the missing words. 3. For the word formation exercise, participants first identify the noun forms of medical verbs, then rewrite sentences changing the verbs to the corresponding nouns without changing the overall meaning. This helps learn the different forms of medical terms.

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    Word association 1: missing

    Unit 0000
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    Each of the sets of four words below can be linked by one other word. All the words are
    related to medical matters. What are the missing words? Write them in the centre of the
    charts.
    1.
    ciliary temperature

    foreign fat

    2.
    throbbing relief

    abdominal threshold

    3.
    metacarpal graft

    cancellous marrow

    4.
    cardiac fatigue

    skeletal spasm

    5.
    black bath

    glass drops

    6.
    blood membrane

    beta body

    1
    For reference see A & C Black Dictionary of Medical Terms (0 7136 7603 5).
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    Unit 0000
    Word formation: nouns
    A fast way to expand your vocabulary is to make sure you know the different forms of the
    words you learn.

    Exercise 1. The words in this list are all verbs. What are the noun forms? Write them in the
    second column. The first one has been done for you as an example.
    1. diagnose diagnosis 9. infect ______________
    2. examine ______________ 10. carry ______________
    3. prescribe ______________ 11. replace ______________
    4. suffer ______________ 12. degenerate ______________
    5. operate ______________ 13. refer ______________
    6. cure ______________ 14. paralyse ______________
    7. recover ______________ 15. obstruct ______________
    8. analyse ______________

    Exercise 2. First, check your answers to Exercise 1 in the key. Then rewrite the sentences
    below, changing the verbs (which are in bold) to nouns. Do not change the meaning of the
    sentences, but be prepared to make grammatical changes if necessary. The first one has
    been done for you as an example.
    1. I diagnosed that the patient had a heart 9. We found that the tissue was infected.
    condition. We found an
    My diagnosis was that the patient had a heart
    condition.
    10. Ten per cent of the population are thought to
    2. I examined the patient fully. carry the bacteria.
    I made a full Ten per cent of the population are thought to be

    3. I prescribed a course of antibiotics. 11. We replaced the patient's hip.


    I wrote a The patient was given a hip

    4. He suffered very little. 12. His condition has degenerated.


    He experienced very little There has been a

    5. We operated immediately. 13. The patient was referred to a specialist.


    The The patient was given a

    6. This disease cannot be cured. 14. His arm was paralysed after the stroke.
    There is no He suffered

    7. He has recovered fully. 15. The artery was obstructed by a blood clot.
    He has made a full The blood clot was forming an

    8. The lab analysed the blood sample.


    The lab made an

    2
    For reference see A & C Black Dictionary of Medical Terms (0 7136 7603 5).
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    Two-word expressions
    Unit 0000
    Make 15 two-word expressions connected with medicine by combining words from the
    two lists: A and B. Match each expression with the appropriate phrase. Use each word
    once. The first one has been done for you as an example.

    A B
    allergic anaesthetic
    balanced attack
    bedside clock
    biological death
    bone diet
    brain intervention
    clinical manner
    digestive marrow
    general practitioner
    general reaction
    heart surgery
    malignant system
    plastic tooth
    primary trial
    surgical tumour

    1. A condition in which the heart has a 9. An effect produced by a substance to which


    reduced blood supply because one of the a person has an allergy, such as sneezing or
    arteries becomes blocked by a blood clot, a skin rash.
    causing myocardial ischaemia and
    myocardial infarction
    heart attack 10. A trial carried out in a medical laboratory on
    a person or on tissue from a person.
    2. A substance given to make someone lose
    consciousness so that a major surgical
    operation can be carried out 11. A tumour which is cancerous and can grow
    again or spread into other parts of the
    body, even if removed surgically.
    3. Soft tissue in cancellous bone.

    12. A doctor who provides first-line medical


    4. The treatment of disease or other condition care for all types of illness to people who
    by surgery. live locally, refers them to hospital if
    necessary and encourages health
    promotion.
    5. Any one of the first twenty teeth which
    develop in children between about six
    months and two-and-a-half years of age, 13. The rhythm of daily activities and bodily
    and are replaced by the permanent teeth at processes such as eating, defecating or
    around the age of six. sleeping, frequently controlled by
    hormones, which repeats every twenty-four
    hours.
    6. Surgery to repair damaged or malformed
    parts of the body.
    14. The set of organs such as the stomach, liver
    and pancreas which are associated with the
    7. A condition in which the nerves in the brain digestion of food.
    stem have died, and the person can be
    certified as dead, although the heart may
    not have stopped beating. 15. A diet that provides all the nutrients needed
    in the correct proportions.

    8. The way in which a doctor behaves towards


    a patient, especially a patient who is in bed.

    3
    For reference see A & C Black Dictionary of Medical Terms (0 7136 7603 5).
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