day 54symptoms

symptoms

Recognise the scolding question -니 / -으니 (왜 그렇게 고집이 세니?), and describe symptoms and illnesses: 구토, 급성, 균, 기절, 면역, 멍들다, 곪다, 뇌졸중, 마취.

today’s words

• 곪다 gomda · fester, go septic
• 공중위생 gongjungwisaeng · public hygiene
• 과민 gwamin · oversensitivity (과민 반응)
• 교정 gyojeong · straightening, correction (치아 교정)
• 구토 guto · vomiting
• 균 gyun · germ, bacteria
• 근시안 geunsian · short-sightedness (근시안적)
• 급성 geupseong · acute (illness)
• 기절 gijeol · fainting
• 까무러치다 kkamureochida · faint, pass out (colloquial)
• 낙태 naktae · abortion (legal, medical term)
• 난청 nancheong · hearing loss
• 남용 namyong · misuse, overuse
• 뇌사 noesa · brain death
• 뇌졸중 noejoljung · stroke
• 마취 machwi · anaesthesia
• 만연 manyeon · spread, being rampant
• 멀다 meolda · go blind (눈이 멀다)
• 멍들다 meongdeulda · bruise, be bruised
• 면역 myeonyeok · immunity
• 발병 balbyeong · onset, outbreak (of a disease)
• 백혈병 baekhyeolbyeong · leukaemia

sentences

• 공중위생이 나빴던 시절에는 전염병이 만연했다. · In the days of poor public hygiene, epidemics were rampant.
• 좌뇌에 뇌졸중이 오면 말하기가 어려워질 수 있으니 발병 후 빨리 치료할수록 좋다. · A stroke in the left brain can make speaking difficult, so the sooner it is treated after onset, the better.
• 그렇게 약을 남용하면 어떡하니? · What are you doing, overusing medicine like that?
• 넘어져서 무릎이 멍들었는데 왜 말을 안 했니? · You fell and bruised your knee: why didn’t you say?
• 그는 사고로 한쪽 눈이 멀었지만 그림을 계속 그렸다. · He lost the sight of one eye in an accident, but went on painting.