Vocabulary Development on Health

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 VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT ON HEALTH 

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. It is also the condition of being sound in body, mind or spirit. There are some words associated with health and they include:

  1. hospital 
  2. ward
  3. doctor 
  4. emotional disorder 
  5. disease 
  6. wellness
  7. drugs
  8. pharmacy 
  9. surgeon
  10. nurse
  11. matron
  12. dentist 
  13. laboratory attendant
  14. pediatrician
  15. infection 
  16. pills
  17. patients 
Evaluation 
Read the text below and decide which answer from A-D best fits each space:
My friend and I visited his father at the medical --1--- of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja. He was receiving --2-- for typhoid --3-- which he --4-- from eating unhygienically prepared food sold on their street. As a --5--, the doctor --6-- an antibiotic for him.
When we got to the ward, he was still feeling --7--because he had been given sleeping --8--. The doctor advised him to take a daily --9-- of the antibiotic tablets twice. He was also told to relax regularly for a quick --10--.
  1. (a) room (b) ward (c) word (d) department
  2. (a) recipe (b) heal (c) treatment (d) management 
  3. (a) infection (b) attention (c) epidemic (d) attack
  4. (a) contacted (b) got (c) met (d) contracted
  5. (a) melody (b) remedy (c) parody (d) curative
  6. (a) prescribed (b) recommendation (c) proscribed (d) described 
  7. (a) shady (b) chronic (c) drowsy (d) sleeping 
  8. (a) seal (b) pills (c) sachets (d) caplets
  9. (a) dose (b) hose (c) rose (d) those
  10. (a) recoverer (b) recovery (c) leg-up (d) release



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