Health and medicine

What holds these lists together

These lists follow the same path at many points — at the pharmacy counter, in the dentist’s chair, in front of the slit lamp, on the ward. Almost all their words are built from Latin and Greek, which makes them look deceptively easy to an English speaker, who shares the roots. Une ordonnance is a prescription, le cabinet is the doctor’s surgery, and at the dentist la fraise is not a strawberry but the drill. Read in their everyday sense, they give you the sentence and not the matter. What joins them is the moment you need them: you first hear them as the patient, when you are least able to ask.

For example: l’officine (the dispensary), la carie (the tooth decay), l’ophtalmologiste (the ophthalmologist), la kinésithérapie (the physiotherapy), le SAMU (the emergency medical service), le laboratoire d’analyses (the pathology laboratory)

Spread across the levels

The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.