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Noun Forms in Medical Vocabulary

This document provides exercises to help expand vocabulary related to medical terms by learning noun forms of verbs. The first exercise lists medical verbs and asks the learner to provide the noun form. The second exercise takes sentences using the medical verbs and asks the learner to rewrite them by changing the verbs to their noun forms while keeping the same meaning. This helps the learner practice identifying and using different grammatical forms of important medical vocabulary words.

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Noun Forms in Medical Vocabulary

This document provides exercises to help expand vocabulary related to medical terms by learning noun forms of verbs. The first exercise lists medical verbs and asks the learner to provide the noun form. The second exercise takes sentences using the medical verbs and asks the learner to rewrite them by changing the verbs to their noun forms while keeping the same meaning. This helps the learner practice identifying and using different grammatical forms of important medical vocabulary words.

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Unit 0000

formation:
nouns
AWord
fast way to
expand your vocabulary
is to make sure you know the
different forms of the words you learn.
Exercise 1. The words in this list are all verbs. What are the noun forms?
Write them in the second column. The first one has been done for you
as an example.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

diagnose
examine
prescribe
suffer
operate
cure
recover
analyse

diagnosis

9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

infect
carry
replace
degenerat
e
refer
paralyse
obstruct

Exercise 2. First, check your answers to Exercise 1 in the key. Then


rewrite the sentences below, changing the verbs (which are in bold) to
nouns. Do not change the meaning of the sentences, but be prepared to
make grammatical changes if necessary. The first one has been done for
you as an example.
1. I diagnosed that the patient had
a heart condition.
My diagnosis was that the patient had a heart
condition.
2. I examined the patient fully.
I made a full

9. We found that the tissue was infected.


We found an

[Link] per cent of the population


are thought to
carry the bacteria.
Ten per cent of the population are thought
to be

3. I prescribed a course of antibiotics.


I wrote a

[Link] replaced the patient's hip.


The patient was given a hip

4. He suffered very little.


He experienced very little

[Link] condition has degenerated.


There has been a

5. We operated immediately.
The

[Link] patient was referred to a


specialist.
The patient was given a

6. This disease cannot be cured.


There is no

[Link] arm was paralysed after the


stroke.
He suffered

7. He has recovered fully.


He has made a full

[Link] artery was obstructed by a


blood clot.
The blood clot was forming an

8. The lab analysed the blood sample.


The lab made an

2
For reference see A & C Black Dictionary of Medical Terms (0
7136 7603 5).

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