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Health and medicine

Clinics, tests, injections and the words for what is wrong.

In Korea you rarely go to a general hospital first: you go to a small clinic named after its speciality, and the 과 in 치과, 안과 and 내과 means "department". Watch the verbs that go with these nouns, because English uses different ones: you "receive" an examination (진찰을 받다), you are "hit" by an injection (주사를 맞다), and medicine is "eaten" (약을 먹다).

The words

Verb (8)

입원하다to be admitted to hospitalVerb3

할머니께서 어제 병원에 입원하셨어요.My grandmother was admitted to hospital yesterday.

퇴원하다to be discharged from hospitalVerb3

수술이 잘 끝나서 일주일 만에 퇴원했어요.The operation went well, so I left hospital after a week.

체하다to have indigestion (from eating too fast)Verb3

점심을 너무 빨리 먹어서 체한 것 같아요.I ate lunch too fast, and I think it has given me indigestion.

Food that "gets stuck" after a hurried or tense meal; there is no single English word for it.

쓰러지다to collapse; to fall downVerb3

한 아저씨가 더운 날 밖에서 일하다가 쓰러졌어요.A man collapsed while working outside on a hot day.

부러지다to break (a bone, a stick)Verb3

스키를 타다가 팔이 부러졌어요.I broke my arm skiing.

붓다to swell (up)Verb3

발목을 다쳐서 많이 부었어요.I hurt my ankle and it has swollen up a lot.

Irregular: 부어요, 부었어요. Another 붓다 means "to pour".

삐다to sprainVerb3

농구를 하다가 발목을 삐었어요.I sprained my ankle playing basketball.

토하다to vomit; to be sickVerb3

상한 음식을 먹고 밤새 토했어요.I ate something that had gone off and was sick all night.

This list belongs to The body and health — seven lists and 281 words that can also be practised as a whole.

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