2.5.7 Treat disease
Use this domain for words related to the treatment of disease and injury.
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(1) What words refer to treating someone who is sick or injured?
Example words: give someone treatment, treat, treatment, medical treatment, therapy, therapeutic, medical procedure, rehabilitation, medical aid, first aid, go to the aid of
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(2) What words refer to taking care of someone who is sick?
Example words: care for (a patient), nurse (a patient), nurse back to health, look after, hospice care
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(3) What words refer to treating a disease?
Example words: treat a disease, arrest (the spread of a disease)
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(4) What words refer to a particular type of treatment?
Example words: resuscitate, acupuncture, blood transfusion
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(5) What words refer to treating a wound?
Example words: clean/cleanse a wound, bandage, Band-Aid, compress, dress (a wound), dressing, tourniquet
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(6) What words refer to treating a broken bone?
Example words: set a bone, reduce a dislocation, cast, splint, crutches, cane, plaster, sling, brace
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(7) What words refer to surgery?
Example words: surgery, surgical, operate, operation, perform an operation, have an operation, major surgery, minor surgery, operating theater, operating table, amputate, implant, transplant, inoperable, incision, stitch, suture, sew up, scalpel
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(8) What words refer to treating pain?
Example words: alleviate, ease, anesthesia, anesthetic, general anesthesia, local anesthesia, anesthetize
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(9) What words refer to things are done to treat disease?
Example words: radiation, scan
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(10) What words refer to trying to find out what is wrong with a sick person?
Example words: diagnose, prognosis, draw/take a sample, examine a patient, take an x-ray, do a test, test for, lab report, take someone's temperature, take someone's blood pressure, take someone's pulse, check-up, take a sample, specimen
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(11) What words refer to telling a sick person what to do in order to get well?
Example words: prescribe, prescription
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(12) What words refer to curing someone?
Example words: cure, make someone better, heal, fix, healing, rehabilitate
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(13) What words refer to something that cures someone?
Example words: cure (n), remedy, antidote, curative
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(14) What equipment is used to treat illness?
Example words: stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, scalpel, catheter, forceps, needle, syringe, IV, x-ray machine, x-ray
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(15) What words refer to preventing disease?
Example words: hygiene, immunization, immunize, inoculate, inoculation, vaccinate, vaccination