sore throat
/sˈoːɹ θɹˈoʊt/
nouna condition when you feel pain in the throat, usually caused by bacteria or viruses
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1. Sore throat, and I think so.
2. Alleviates sore throat Because of its anti-inflammatory properties
3. Symptoms include - sore throat, runny nose, constant sneezing, cough and a low grade fever.
4. Nobody likes a sore throat.
5. - I have a sore throat.
cold
/ˈkoʊɫd/
nouna mild disease that we usually get when viruses affect our body and make us cough, sneeze, or have fever
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1. The water in the lochs is cold and dark.
2. Some places get cold.
3. My hands are cold.
4. Your hands are cold?
5. I hate colds.
diarrhea
/ˌdaɪɝˈiə/
nouna medical condition in which body waste turns to liquid and comes out frequently
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1. - Can a consultation with a telemedicine doctor cause diarrhea?
2. They all have diarrhea.
3. I used to get diarrhea, pains in my stomach all the time, headaches.
4. In one study from a while back, close to 80% of patients had diarrhea prior to their treatment.
5. Tomatoes can even prevent diarrhea.
flu
/ˈfɫu/
nouninfluenza; an infectious disease similar to a bad cold, causing fever and severe pain
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1. Flu infects humans.
2. The flu, by comparison, has an average incubation period of just two days.
3. I take flu very seriously.
4. - She said flu.
5. The whole store got the flu.
allergy
/ˈæɫɝdʒi/
nouna medical condition in which one's body severely reacts to a specific substance if it is inhaled, touched, or ingested
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1. I have raging allergies.
2. Those mice don’t get allergies.
3. Water allergies - aquagenic urticaria - are part of a larger family of urticaria allergies.
4. Allergies, anaphylactic attacks are on the rise all throughout the world.
5. Allergies is the over-activation of the immune system.
sprain
/ˈspɹeɪn/
nouna painful injury resulting in the sudden twist of a bone or joint, particularly one's wrist or ankles
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1. Hamburgers, roast pork, sprained ankles.
2. I sprained this.
3. Now I sprained my ankle just now.
4. And then I sprained my ankle.
5. Or sprained.
ankle
/ˈæŋkəɫ/
nounthe joint that connects the foot to the leg
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1. She really likes ankles.
2. Hamburgers, roast pork, sprained ankles.
3. - Fix your ankles?
4. Cross your ankles.
5. Fix up my ankles.
food poisoning
/fˈuːd pˈɔɪzənɪŋ/
nounan illness resulting from the consumption of food or water contaminated with bacteria
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1. My money's on food poisoning.
2. Food poisoning can last six to 12 hours.
3. Twice, two people had food poisoning.
4. Twice, two people had food poisoning.
5. Twice, two different people had food poisoning.
to cough
/ˈkɑf/, /ˈkɔf/
verbto push air out of our mouth with a sudden noise
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1. -Everybody, cough my face.
2. - Specifically coughing.
3. Coughing, cracking of gum, clearing of the throat, all that.
4. It coughed.
5. Oh, baby has a cough.
to blow
/ˈbɫoʊ/
verbto exhale forcefully through the mouth
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1. Blow a kiss.
2. And then, don't use a hair dryer to blow it, don't put it in the dishwasher either, that makes sense.
3. Mind blown.
4. Mind blown.
5. Mind blown!
fever
/ˈfivɝ/
nouna condition when the body temperature rises, usually when we are sick
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1. Any other symptoms I should know about, fever?
2. Fever is part of the inflammatory response.
3. Severe deficiency can even cause fever!
4. Fevers can also bring on a loss of appetite.
5. It took fever.
to ache
/ˈeɪk/
verbto feel a prolonged physical pain in a part of one's body, especially one that is not severe
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1. My head aches.
2. My hands ached.
3. My hand is aching!
4. And my chest ached.
5. My foot aches.
to hurt
/ˈhɝt/
verbto feel pain in part of the body; to be in pain
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1. The decline in trading jobs and revenue hurt the big banks and large investment firms.
2. So my body hurts sometimes.
3. - My head hurts too.
4. And these beliefs hurt my motivation.
5. And the model minority myth hurts Asian people too.
gland
/ˈɡɫænd/
nounan organ in the body that produces certain chemical substances to be used in the body or to be discharged into the surroundings
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1. These glands then release a burst of the neurotransmitter adrenaline.
2. Sweat glands come in primarily two forms: eccrine and apocrine.
3. Depending on the type of stimulus, the glands will produce three different tears.
4. This affects your body’s glands.
5. These glands purify seawater very quickly.
swollen
/ˈswoʊɫən/
adjective(of a part of the body) unusually large, particularly because of an injury or illness
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1. My eyes was swollen.
2. My feet were swollen.
3. Roscoe's foot is very swollen.
4. His eye is swollen.
5. My tongue is swollen!
to swallow
/ˈswɑɫoʊ/, /ˈswɔɫoʊ/
verbto cause food, drink, or another substance to pass from the mouth down into the stomach through the esophagus, using the muscles of the throat
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1. A small break in a pipe can eventually create a sinkhole that swallows whatever stood above it.
2. This cricket swallowed the larvae of a Gordian worm, or horsehair worm.
3. Swallow the saliva.
4. This turtle swallowed two hooks.
5. The man rarely swallows the last bit.
sick
/ˈsɪk/
adjectivehaving nausea and wanting to vomit
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1. You cover for them at work while they're on sick leave.
2. Sick beat man!
3. This thing's sick.
4. That place was sick.
5. People got sick.
to sneeze
/ˈsniz/
verbto blow air out of our nose and mouth in a sudden way
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1. People with colds usually sneeze a lot.
2. Sneezes travel at great speeds.
3. My mom sneezes.
4. Sneezes are involuntary.
5. - Sneezed.
