Health - IELTS lexical resource
IELTS vocabulary and collocations for health topics. These could be useful for related letters, essays or even speaking exam topics. At the end, there is also a spelling test. Please note that US spelling is used throughout.
Vocabulary
Food
- Cravings
- Diet
- Dietitian
- Fast food
- Takeaway
- Home-cooked meal
- Nutrient/Nutrition
- Obesity
- Portion
- Serving
- Overeat
- Appetite
- Intake
- Fiber
- Savory: Usually salty.
- Unflavored
- Famine: Extreme food shortages for many people e.g. due to drought.
- Savor: Enjoy the taste
- Digest: The body's way to process food
- Malnourished: Having not enough food or too much of the wrong food.
- Malnutrition
- Genetically modified
- Organic: Cultivated naturally
- Free-range: Kept in free movement, natural environments.
- Convenience food
Eating disorders
- Anorexia: Abnormal fear of being overweight causes one to eat poorly and can be fatal
- Bulimia: When food is vomited out by choice in order not to gain weight.
Exercise
- Muscle
- Overweight
- Posture
Diagnoses
- Disease
- Heart attack
- Allergy: A negative physical condition that occurs due to the intake/contact of specific food or animal hair etc.
- Stroke
- Cell
- Acute: Intense/serious
- Chronic: Constantly occurring. Chronic disease is something that cannot be cured.
- Infectious
- Overdo
- Hereditary: Passed on from parent to child.
- Toxic
- Onset: Typically negative. Means: Beginning of something. E.g. It started with the onset of headaches
- Blood pressure
- Bacteria: Micro-organisms. Some are necessary for the body while others may be harmful.
- Virus: A collection of non-living molecules that need a host to survive.
- Germ: Small organism that causes disease. 4 types: Viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa.
- Intolerance: Unable to take in some substance because of sensitivity of the body
- Lactose intolerance: Where one can not digest the natural sugar from milk/dairy products.
- Cholesterol: Fatty substance
- Salmonella: Bacteria that can cause food poisoning
- Rheumatism: Extreme pain/stiffness in one's joints/muscles.
- Arthritis: Painful joint inflammation
- Cardiovascular disease: Illness that causes problems in blood circulation.
- Sedentary lifestyle: Inactive. Sits too much.
- Epidemic: An infectious disease over a wide community in the same time period.
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Diabetes
- Bruise
- Impairment: A function being weakened/damaged.
Healthcare
- Pathology: The study of the way diseases are caused and their effects. E.g. Send a sample to our forensic pathology laboratory for testing.
- Pharmaceutical: Related to medicinal drugs, their creation, usage, or the sale thereof E.g. A pharmaceutical drug.
- Physiotherapy: Treatment via physical methods such as exercise, massage, or heat.
- Anesthetic: Pain reliever.
- Practitioner: One that practices especially medicine. E.g. We have the most skilled medical practitioners in the country.
Treatment
- Transplant
- Diagnosis
- Drug
- Injection
- Medicine
- Patient
- Counteract: To reduce/remove an effect by producing an opposite effect.
- Clinic
- Immune: Being resistant to a specific disease
- Vaccine
- Antibiotic
- Dose
- Remedy
- Cure
- Scan
- Stimulate: Encourage
- Recover
- Maintain
- Curb: To restrain something. E.g. He mentioned he would curb his smoking.
- Diminish/Disrupt/Eliminate/Prevent
- Avoid
- Persistent
- Therapeutic: Related to the healing of a disease. Could be a treatment-based, therapy or drug.
- Conventional medicine: Modern medicine
- Holistic medicine: Includes mental health
- Surgeon
- Check-up
- Private healthcare: Healthcare that is not provided by the government.
- Symptoms
- Syringe
Anatomy
- Artery: Any tubes conveying blood from the heart to the rest of the body
- Breathe (verb)
Collocations/phrases/idioms
- Side effects
- Engineered food: Modified food
- Processed food
- Shake of a cold
- In poor health
- Take an overdose
- On the mend
- Skin and bone: Very thin
- Under the weather
- Critically ill
- Untimely death: Death at an early age
- International cuisines
- Whole grains
- Eat the rainbow One must consume a variety of colored vegetables
- Eating disorders
- Balanced diet
- The picture of health: Very healthy
- Out of shape
- Follow a recipe
- Eat like a horse
- Stress-related illness
- Vulnerable to illness
- To butter someone up: To flatter for selfish reasons
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away
- Emergency measures
- A dose of medicine
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