Health and medicine

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

• 감기 <感氣> - A cold
  • 감기 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
• 두통 - headache
  • 편두통 - migraine
  • 두통이 있다/ 머리가 아프다 - have a headache
• 구토 - vomiting
  • 토하다/구토가 나다 - to vomit
• 설사 - loose bowels
  • 설사를 하다 - have loose bowels
• 변비 - constipation
  • 변비가 있다/변비에 걸리다 - be constipated
• 치통 - toothache
• 생리통 - period pains
• 복통 - 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
• 화상 - a burn
  • 화상을 입다 - to get burned
• 교통사고 - traffic accident
  • 차에 치이다 - to get hit by a car
• 안락사 - euthanasia
  • 존엄사 - euphemism of euthanasia
• 죽다 - to die
  • 죽음- death
  • 돌아가시다 - honorific of 죽다. pass away
• 사망하다 - medical expression of 죽다, and it is used in news or newpaper.
  • 사망 - medical expression of death

Positions

• 의사 - a doctor
  • 치과의사 - a dentist
  • 안과의사 - an ophthalmologist
  • 산부인과의사 - an obstetrician, a ladies’ doctor
  • 정형외과의사 - an orthopedist
  • 수의사 - a vet
• 간호사 - a nurse
• 간호조무사 - a nurses aide

Hospital

• 대학병원 - a hospital, a university hospital
• 개인병원/의원 - doctor's office
• 문병(하다) - A visit to a sick person, to pay a visit to a sick person
• 병 - Disease, illness
• 중환자실 - Intensive-care room
• 수술(하다) - Surgery, to operate on a patient
• 입원(하다) <入院> - Hospitalization, to be hospitalized
• 퇴원(하다) <退院> - Discharge from the hospital, to be discharged from the hospital
• 성형 수술 <成形手術> - Plastic surgery
• 병실 - Ward
• 응급실 - Emergency room
• 영안실 - deadhouse
• 수술실 - 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
• 소독 - disinfection
• 수혈 - a blood transfusion
  • 혈액형 - a blood type
• 지혈 - stopping of bleeding
• 봉합 - suture
  • 봉합하다/꿰매다 - close the wound, sew
• 피검사/혈액검사 - a blood test
• 소변검사 - urine examination
• 주사 - injection
  • 주사를 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
• 심폐소생술/CPR - Canadian Pacific Railway/CPR
• 사망선고를 하다 - to pronounce of death
• 초음파 - ultrasonography
• 방사선치료 - radiation treatment
  • 방사선 치료를 받다 - receive radiation treatment
• 출산하다 - to give birth to
• 제왕절개수술 - a Caesarean operation
• 낙태수술 - a surgical operation to cause abortion
• 이식 - transplantation
  • 이식받다 - have a transplant
• 기증하다 - to donate
  • 기증자 - a donor

Misc

• 심하다 - To be severe, to be serious