Developing Skills for English Communication 1
Unit 8: Your Health & Safety
Vocabulary
Terms |
Definitions |
| dosage | noun: the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time |
| expire | verb: lose validity (Example: "My passports expired last month") |
| fresh | adjective: not stale or old (Example: "Fresh bread") |
| health | noun: the general condition of body and mind (Example: "His delicate health") |
| instruction | noun: a message describing how something is to be done |
| label |
verb: attach a tag or label to (Example: "Label these bottles")
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| medicine | noun: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease |
| patient | noun: a person who requires medical care (Example: "The number of emergency patients has grown rapidly") |
| poison | noun: any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism |
| prescription | noun: written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient |
| refund | noun: money returned to a payer |
| safety | noun: the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions (Example: "Insure the safety of the children") |
| spoil | verb: become unfit for consumption or use (Example: "The meat must be eaten before it spoils") |
| supplement | noun: a supplementary component that improves capability |
| warning | noun: a message informing of danger |
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