středa, 15. května 2024, 10.09
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: HEALTH

a heart attack

infarkt

John had a heart attack three years ago.(CALD)

I think he's had a heart attack. (CLD)

He'd survived two heart attacks and was very careful about what he ate.(CDAE)


a fatal injury

smrtelné zranění

He got up, lifted her and carried her back to the bedroom despite her threats to do him a fatal injury if he didn't stop carting her about like a sack of old cabbages. (BNC)

 Peter Vanezis, a pathologist, told the hearing that the fatal injury was brain haemorrhaging caused by a 15-centimetre skull fracture. (BNC)

The fatal injury was a blow to the head, not a very heavy blow but the deceased had taken a substantial amount of alcohol in the hours before he suffered the injury, and the effect of alcohol is to increase the flow of blood to the brain so that, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. (BNC)

be involved in an accident

být účastníkem (dopravní) nehody

Sometimes people cannot have this proof, if, for example, their loved one has been involved in an accident where the body has not been recovered. (BNC)

Figures show that out of every 1,000 skiers, 35 are involved in an accident --; yet one in ten of us don't bother to take out insurance. (BNC)

Have you ever been involved in an accident? (BNC)

an emergency department

pohotovost (oddělení v nemocnici)

She had followed the stretcher into the emergency department there, to be asked particulars about the patient. (BNC)

She was admitted and treated like any other National Health Service patient to the accident and emergency department, and was then seen by a consultant. (BNC)

The patient seen outside the hospital is a different type to the one seen in an accident and emergency department or in a coronary care unit. (BNC)

cut oneself shaving

říznout se při holení

Half an hour ago he had cut himself shaving; now, it seemed, his very life was in jeopardy. (BNC)

Then came Brian, who had cut himself shaving, and was dabbing the blood on his chin. (BNC)

Hurrying to make up time, Manville had cut himself shaving, and the cluttered bathroom medicine cabinet had stubbornly refused to yield up the secret whereabouts of the styptic pencil. (BNC)

get sunburnt

spálit se (od sluníčka)

 So even if you are under an umbrella, for example, you could still get sunburnt.(BNC)

We got tired, and sunburnt as we ran over the beach stones without shoes. (BNC)

If you do get sunburnt, try using a soothing, cooling product such as Aloe Vera Burn Relief Gel, £2.95, from Nectar Beauty Shops. (BNC)

a mouth ulcer/

afta

Sharp teeth can cause terrible ulcers and anyone who has had a mouth ulcer himself will know what agony they can be. (BNC)

Have you ever had a mouth ulcer? It is a terrible pain! (BNC)

She was a bit nervous, she had a mouth ulcer giving her a sharp pain. (BNC)

a cold sore

opar

 He's five feet nine inches tall, slim, with dirty blond hair in a centre parting, and he has a cold sore on his top lip. (BNC)

While I was shaving, peacefully surveying my baggy eyes, thick lips hinting at a recent cold sore, and ever-deepening wrinkles, I saw in the mirror something monstrous appear around the side of my grey hair. (BNC)

Researchers in China, where garlic is widely used in folk medicine, discovered that garlic compounds were effective against some viruses including the cold sore virus and a type of meningitis. (BNC)

have a slipped disc

mít vyhozenou ploténku

He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc. (BNC)

Nigel had been very healthy all his life and, apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of `;flu, had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so. (BNC)

His first patient was a woman in agony with a slipped disc. (BNC)

a psychosomatic illness/disease...

hypochondrická/smyšlená nemoc, (být hypochondr)...

The doctor thinks Leo's symptoms are psychosomatic.(CAED)

The best type of treatment for both psychosomatic complaints and hypochondria is some form of psychotherapy or hypnotherapy. (BNC)

They see innumerable patients who have been told that their symptoms are psychosomatic or `;all in the mind'; by one doctor or another. (BNC) 

have a nervous breakdown

nervové zhroucení, nervově se zhroutit,

The poor centipede worried over the answer until he had a nervous breakdown and lost the ability to walk naturally. (BNC)

Dad goes on like that, especially when his secretary's off with a nervous breakdown again. (BNC)

I've heard of women so depressed that they spend their 40th birthday incommunicado, having a mini nervous breakdown in bed. (BNC)

have a hangover

mít kocovinu

 Parker had a hangover. (BNC)

He'd woken without a hangover and even done a token tidying-up of his room. (BNC)

The kind of thing you ask yourself when you've got a bad hangover. (BNC)

a hay fever

senná rýma

She gets really bad hay fever.(CALD)

Hay fever is really an allergy to pollen and the peak time is early June. (BNC)

Dr Cathy Read with the latest on the health front, from help for hay fever to odour-absorbent paint (BNC)


loss of appetite

ztráta chutí, nechutenství

Other signs include lethargy and loss of appetite. (BNC)

There may be fever, loss of appetite and weight, and aches and pains in the muscles, joints, and bones. (BNC)

A doctor spoke recently of the many patients who came to him --; mostly men --; complaining of stiff neck, poor sleep, loss of appetite and failing sexual desire. (BNC)

have a sore throat

bolest v krku

You may also have a dry irritating cough, a sore throat and a runny, itchy nose. (BNC)

Now he was in bed with severe bruising, a sore throat and a dislocated left knee and being tended by Rachel. (BNC)

 Celia, the younger by ten minutes, had always been the weaker, but it was Dermot who'd come home from school first, complaining of a sore throat. (BNC)