Health and medicine

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General

  • 낫다 - to get well, to recover
  • 다치다 - To get injured, to get hurt
  • 아프다 - to pain, to ache, hurt
  • 걸리다 - suffer from, catch, be taken ill

Disease and sickness

  • <> - A cold
    • 걸리다 - To catch a cold
  • 기침(하다)- a cough
    • 기침하다 - to cough, to have a cough
  • 재채기 - a sneeze
    • 재채기하다 - to sneeze
  • 열 - a fever
    • 열나다 - have a fever
  • 인후염/목감기 - a sore throat
    • 목이 아프다/따갑다 - have a sore throat
  • 콧물 - snot (literally nose water)
    • 콧물이 나다 - have a runny nose
    • 코를 훌쩍거리다 - keep sniffing
  • - headache
    • - migraine
    • 이 있다/ 머리가 아프다 - have a headache
  • - vomiting
    • 하다/구토가 나다 - to vomit
  • 설사 - loose bowels
    • 설사를 하다 - have loose bowels
  • 변비 - constipation
    • 변비가 있다/변비에 걸리다 - be constipated
  • - toothache
  • - period pains
  • - stomachache
  • 관절염 - arthritis, inflammation of a joint
  • 인대 - ligament
    • 인대가 늘어나다 - to pull a ligament(?)
    • 발을 삐다 - sprain one´s ankle
  • 멍 - a bruise
    • 멍이 들다 - be bruised
  • 고혈압 - high blood pressure
    • 고혈압이 있다 - have a high blood pressure
  • 저혈압 - low blood pressure
  • 골절되다/뼈가 부러지다 - break a bone
  • 팔이 빠지다 - put one´s arm out of joint
  • 알레르기 - allergy
    • 알레르기 반응 - allergic reaction
    • 알레르기성 질환 - an allergic disease
    • 알레르기가 있다 - be allergic
  • 결막염 - conjunctivitis
  • 천식 - asthma
  • 무좀 - athlete´s foot
    • 무좀에 걸리다 - have athlete´s foot
  • - a burn
    • 을 입다 - to get burned
  • - traffic accident
    • 차에 치이다 - to get hit by a car
  • 안락 - euthanasia
    • 존엄 - euphemism of euthanasia
  • 죽다 - to die
    • 죽음- death
    • 돌아가시다 - honorific of 죽다. pass away
  • 하다 - medical expression of 죽다, and it is used in news or newpaper.
    • - medical expression of death

Positions

Hospital

  • - a hospital, a university hospital
  • / - doctor's office
  • (하다) - A visit to a sick person, to pay a visit to a sick person
  • - Disease, illness
  • - Intensive-care room
  • (하다) - Surgery, to operate on a patient
  • (하다) <院> - Hospitalization, to be hospitalized
  • (하다) <退院> - Discharge from the hospital, to be discharged from the hospital
  • <成形 手術> - Plastic surgery
  • - Ward
  • - Emergency room
  • - deadhouse
  • - an operating room
  • 앰뷸런스 - an ambulance (※119's ambulance is FREE in Korea. But hospital's private ambulance is very expensive.)

Medical treatment

  • X레이 - X Ray
    • X레이 찍다 - to take an X-ray
  • - disinfection
  • - a blood transfusion
  • - stopping of bleeding
  • 봉합 - suture
    • 봉합하다/꿰매다 - close the wound, sew
  • / - a blood test
  • - urine examination
  • - injection
    • 를 맞다 - get an injection
  • MRI - magnetic resonance imager/MRI
  • 위세척 - wash out the stomach
  • 관장 - rectal injection, enema
  • 절단 - amputate
  • 마취 - anaesthesia
    • 국부마취 - local anesthesia
    • 전신마취 - general anesthesia
  • 심폐소/CPR - Canadian Pacific Railway/CPR
  • 를 하다 - to pronounce of death
  • 초음파 - ultrasonography
  • 방사선치료 - radiation treatment
    • 방사선 치료를 받다 - receive radiation treatment
  • 하다 - to give birth to
  • 제왕절개 - a Caesarean operation
  • 낙태 - a surgical operation to cause abortion
  • - transplantation
    • 받다 - have a transplant
  • 하다 - to donate
    • 기증자 - a donor

Types of doctors

  • 안과의 - ophthalmologist, eye doctor

Misc

  • 하다 - To be severe, to be serious

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