Answers See table below.


Students may not know cast – actors in a play (also on TV or in a film), valve – device attached to a tube that controls the air or liquid running through it, drip – liquid falling in individual drops.


Exercise B


Set for individual work and pairwork checking. Do the first sentence as an example. Make sure students understand that they should change the form if necessary, for example noun to verb, or past tense to present tense.


Feed back with the whole class. Ask students for any other words they know which have a special meaning in medicine.


Answers Model answers:


1 It’s only fairly recently that ‘birthing partners’ have been allowed to be present in the delivery room.


2 Behind the iris is the soft, elastic lens that widens or contracts under different lighting conditions.


3 The patient will need to take the prescription to the pharmacist in order to get his medication.


4 The heart is a muscular pump, dependant on a series of four valves that enable it to function.


5 Take the patient’s history by asking him or her about their past and current medical problems.


6 You will be taken down to theatre for your operation once you have been seen by the anaesthetist.


7 The patient was admitted to the Emergency Unit following a near-fatal car accident and is currently on a drip.


Word history dressing valve delivery patient drip theatre Meaning


notes about the patient’s previous and present medical problem(s)


protective covering for a wound to avoid infection during the healing process


delivery room – room in hospital where babies are born/delivered


person who receives care from a doctor, nurse or other healthcare professional


liquid passed slowly into patient’s blood through a tube room in a hospital where operations are performed


admissions department in hospital where patients register on arrival cast


made of plaster of Paris to aid in the healing of broken bones by keeping the body part stiff


lens 12 part of the eye located behind the pupil that focuses light works in a similar way to a camera lens part of speech changed (adjective to noun) part of speech changed (verb to noun) part of speech has changed (verb to noun) part of speech changed from verb to noun


feature of the heart that enables it to function by opening works in a similar way to a valve in plumbing and closing, allowing blood to pass through


8 The nurse will change the dressing on your wound now, but the cast on your leg won’t come off for another week or so.


Examples of other possible words from general English in medicine:


carrier (n) – patient who carries a disease but is not necessarily infected


episode (n) – an attack [of asthma] loose (adj) – to describe a cough that produces sputum


productive (adj) – to describe a cough that produces sputum (opposite – non-productive) stream (n) – the flow of urine


waste (v) – the process of disintegration of muscle tissue


Exercise C Set the first question for pairwork. See which pair can work out the answer first.


Set the remainder for pairwork. Feed back, building up the table in the Answers section on page 13 on the board.


Answers Model answers:


1 They all have a base word + extra letters at the beginning/prefixes.


2 See table (on page 13). 3 Prefix. 4 See table. 5 See table.


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