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    This document contains vocabulary related to patient admissions in a hospital setting. It provides English words, definitions, and Spanish translations for terms like administer, admission, allergy, analyse, assessment, and others commonly used for intake, treatment, and care of patients. The list covers medical staff roles, areas of the hospital, procedures, conditions, and more to build language skills for discussing patient care.

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    Unit 1 Patient admissions

    Word Definition Spanish


    administer (v) to give someone a drug or medical administrar (v)
    treatment
    admission (n) the process of taking someone into a admisión (n)
    hospital for treatment, tests, or care
    allergy (n) a condition that makes you ill when you alergia (n)
    eat, touch, or breathe something
    analyse (v) British English to examine or think analizar (v)
    about something carefully in order to
    understand it [= analyze American
    English]
    assessment (n) the process in which a nurse makes a valoración (n)
    judgement about a person's health
    bag (n) British English a container that is used bolsa (n)
    for carrying things
    bleed (v) to lose blood because of an injury sangrar (v)

    buzzer (n) a small electronic thing that makes a timbre (n)


    buzzing sound when you press it
    canteen (n) British English a place in a hospital, comedor (n)
    school, etc. where people can get
    meals, usually cheaply
    charge nurse a nurse who is responsible for the work responsable de
    (n) done in a particular part of a hospital enfermería (n)
    cleaner (n) someone whose job is to clean limpiador (n)
    buildings, houses, etc.
    consultant (n) British English a doctor at a hospital médico
    who knows a lot about a particular area especialista (n)
    of medicine
    cubicle (n) a small separate area in a room cubículo (n)

    date of birth the day, month and year you were born fecha de
    (DOB) (n) on nacimiento (n)
    deal with (phr to take action in order to solve a ocuparse (v)
    v) problem or make sure that something
    is done properly
    deliver (v) to help a woman give birth to a baby asistir un parto (loc
    verb)
    dermatology the part of medical science that deals dermatología (n)
    (n) with skin diseases
    diabetes (n) a disease in which the body cannot diabetes (n)
    control the amount of sugar in the
    blood

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    Word Definition Spanish
    disorder (n) an illness that prevents part of your afección (n)
    body from working properly
    doctor (n) someone who is trained to treat people médico (n)
    who are ill [= Dr. written abbreviation]
    elderly (adj) an elderly person is old mayor (adj)
    emergency (n) when a patient is in urgent need of emergencia (n)
    treatment
    family doctor a doctor trained to treat the general médico de
    (n) health problems of people of all ages cabecera (n)
    family name (n) the name someone shares with other apellido (n)
    members of their family [= surname]
    fill in (phr v) to write all the necessary information cumplimentar (v)
    on an official document, form, etc.
    gift shop (n) a shop that sells small things that are tienda de regalos
    suitable for giving as presents (n)
    hospital (n) a building where sick or injured people hospital (n)
    receive medical treatment
    intake (n) the amount of food, drink etc. that you toma (n)
    take into your body
    kidney (n) one of two organs in your lower back riñón (n)
    that separate waste liquid from the
    blood
    locker (n) a small cupboard that locks, used to taquilla (n)
    store valuables, safely in a building
    marital status if someone is married or not – used estado civil (n)
    (n) especially on official forms
    midwife (n) a nurse trained to help women when matrona (n)
    they are having a baby
    nervous the nerves in the body, together with sistema nervioso
    system (n) the brain, which allow you to feel pain, (n)
    heat, etc. and which controls
    movement
    neurology (n) the scientific study of the nervous neurología (n)
    system and its diseases
    next of kin (n the person who has the closest family familiar más
    phr) relationship to you, for example your cercano (loc)
    husband, wife, or mother
    occupation (n) a job or profession ocupación (n)

    operation (n) when doctors cut into someone's body intervención


    to repair or remove a part that is quirúrgica (n)
    damaged
    paramedic (n) someone who usually works in an paramédico (n)
    ambulance and is trained to help ill or
    injured people, but is not a doctor or

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    Word Definition Spanish
    nurse
    patient (n) someone who is getting medical paciente (n)
    treatment from a doctor or in hospital
    pharmacy (n) a shop or a part of a shop where you farmacia (n)
    can get medicines
    porter (n) British English someone who camillero (n)
    transports patients around a hospital
    pregnant (adj) if a woman is pregnant, she has an embarazada (adj)
    unborn baby growing in her body
    priority (v) the thing that you think is most priorizar (v)
    important and that needs your attention
    first
    reaction (n) if you have a reaction to a drug or to reacción (n)
    something you have eaten, it makes
    you ill
    receptionist (n) someone whose job is to welcome and recepcionista (n)
    deal with people arriving at a hospital
    relative (n) the other member(s) of your family pariente (n)

    responsible if you are responsible for something, responsable (adj)


    (adj) you are in charge of it or it is your job
    to do it
    scrub nurse (n) a nurse who is responsible for looking instrumentista (n)
    after patients during surgery and after
    their operations
    specialise (v) to study mainly one subject or do especializarse (v)
    mainly one activity
    surgery (n) the place where operations are done in quirófano (n)
    a hospital
    treat (v) to give someone medical treatment for tratar (v)
    an illness or injury
    triage (n) deciding who receives medical triage (n)
    treatment first in based on how serious
    an injury is
    urgent (adj) sth that is urgent is very important and urgente (adj)
    needs to be dealt with immediately
    vending a machine that sells drinks, etc. máquina
    machine (n) expendedora (n)
    waiting room a room for people to wait in, for sala de espera (n)
    (n) example, to see a doctor
    X-ray (n) a photograph of the inside of rayos x (n)
    someone's body, taken using X-rays to
    see if anything is wrong

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