There are 20 nouns connected with medicine in the box below. Use them to complete the sentences – in some cases you will need to make them plural.
accident * allergy * ambulance * biopsy * consent * course * examination * excess * exercise * injection * intake * overdose * paroxysm * progress * rash * recurrence * surgery * tendency * treatment * vaccination
1. He developed an __________ to penicillin.
2. He suffered _______________ of coughing in the night.
3. She went into a coma after an _______________ of heroin.
4. The patient will need plastic _______________ to remove the scars he received in the accident.
5. She took a _______________ of steroid treatment.
6. He had a _______________ of a fever which he had caught in the tropics.
7. There is a _______________ to obesity in her family.
8. From the _______________ of the X-ray photographs, it seems that the tumour has not spread.
9. The doctor gave him an _______________ to relieve the pain.
10. He doesn’t take enough _______________: that’s why he’s fat.
11. The injured man was taken away in an _______________.
12. She was advised to reduce her _______________ of sugar.
13. The _______________ of the tissue from the growth showed that it was benign.
14. The parents gave their _______________ for their son’s heart to be used in the transplant operation.
15. The doctors seem pleased that she has made such good _______________ since her operation.
16. This is a new _______________ for heart disease.
17. Her body could not cope with an _______________ of blood sugar.
18. Three people were injured in the _______________ on the motorway.
19. _______________ is mainly given against cholera, diphtheria, rabies, smallpox, tuberculosis and typhoid.
20. She had a high temperature and then broke out in a _______________ .
Answers:
- allergy
- paroxysms
- overdose
- surgery
- course
- recurrence
- tendency
- examination
- injection
- exercise
- ambulance
- intake
- biopsy
- consent
- progress
- treatment
- excess
- accident
- vaccination
- rash
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