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day 56treatment and recovery

unit 8 · body & health

    treatment and recovery

    Talk about getting better or worse: 호전되다, 악화되다, 후유증이 남다, and about treatment: 재활, 접종, 이식, 항생제, 항암 치료, 투병, 치유.

    today’s words

    • 유전병 yujeonbyeong · hereditary disease
    • 의술 uisul · medical skill, medicine (the art)
    • 의학적 uihakjeok · medical
    • 이식 isik · transplant
    • 자가 jaga · self-, your own (자가 진단)
    • 재활 jaehwal · rehabilitation
    • 접종 jeopjong · vaccination, jab
    • 중병 jungbyeong · serious illness
    • 중증 jungjeung · severe (case), seriously ill
    • 증후군 jeunghugun · syndrome
    • 출혈 chulhyeol · bleeding
    • 치매 chimae · dementia
    • 치명적 chimyeongjeok · fatal, critical
    • 치유 chiyu · healing, cure
    • 투병 tubyeong · fighting an illness
    • 폐렴 pyeryeom · pneumonia
    • 항생제 hangsaengje · antibiotic
    • 항암 hangam · anti-cancer (항암 치료)
    • 해독 haedok · detoxification
    • 현기증 hyeongijeung · dizziness, vertigo
    • 호전 hojeon · improvement (호전되다)
    • 후유증 huyujeung · after-effects

    sentences

    • 유전병은 부모에게서 자녀에게 이어지는 병이다. · A hereditary disease is one passed from parents to children.
    • 그 치료법은 아직 의학적으로 증명되지 않았다. · That treatment has not yet been proved medically.
    • 그는 형에게 간을 이식해 주었다. · He gave his older brother part of his liver in a transplant.
    • 열이 나면 먼저 자가 진단 검사를 해 보세요. · If you have a temperature, first try a self-test.
    • 기관지가 약한 노인은 매년 독감 예방 접종을 받는 것이 좋다. · Older people with weak airways should get a flu jab every year.