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This set of flashcards helps learn English, focusing on medical and healthcare vocabulary. The flashcard set covers terms like "Optiker" (opticians), "Prosthetists" (provide artificial replacements), and "Orthotists" (provide splints and devices to aid movement). The platform supports backward learning from the target language to the source language, making it versatile for learners. Ideal for students and professionals in healthcare, this set is particularly useful for intermediate learners looking to expand their medical vocabulary.

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German

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English

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Other

Created / Updated

12.01.2017 / 18.01.2017

Fusspfleger

chiropodists or podiatrists

Technicians - people who work with scientific equipment

radiographers / X-rax technicians, ambulance technicians.

Paramedic (ambulance technician with more advanced qualifications)

Orthopädiemechaniker

Prosthetist and orthotists.

künstliches Körperteil

artificial limb

Prothese

prosthesis

Orthese

orthosis

künstlicher Ersatz

artificial replacement

Schiene

splint

Klumpfuss

club foot (talipes)

Schmerzlinderung

relieve pain

Unterschiede: Prostehtists / Orthotists

Prostehtists: Provide artificial replacements for patients who have had an amputation or were born without a limb.

Orthotists: provide a range of splints and other devices to aid movement, correct deformity from an abnormal development of part of the body, for example club foor and relieve pain.

Optiker

opticians;

test eyesight, prescribe glasses (spectacles-Brille) and contact-lenses. Measuring intraocular pressure, examining the retina. If the opticians suspects an eye disease (glaucoma) the refer the patient to their GP for treatment. The GP may then refer the patient to an ophthalmologist, a doctor who is specialized in diseases of the eye.

to refer

verweisen, berichten, zuschreiben, an jmd. verweisen

Pilzbefall

fungal

Freizeit

leisure

bereitstellen / zur Verfügung stellen / erbringen

to provide

Lähmung

palsy

etw. benötigen / brauchen / einfordern / beanspruchen

to require sth.

Missbildung / Deformierung

deformity

umstellen - positionieren

reposition

a nurse who is still in training

Keyboard commands:

= turn,

= for-/backward,

= scroll

student nurse

a nurse who has completed the training course

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staff nurse

a more experienced nurse who is in charge of, or responsible for, a ward or department.

Keyboard commands:

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charge nurse

a nurse who is in charge of several wards.

Keyboard commands:

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nurse manager

the old term sister is still sometimes used for a female charge nurse.

A female nurse manager may be called ...

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matron.

Pflegehilfskräfte:

assist nursing staff

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clinical support worker: has done a short course and obtained baisc qualifications.

nursing auxiliary: unqualified

auxiliary

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der Helfer

to obtain

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etw. erhalten / gewinnen / erlangen

...: they are making sure patients' notes and information are up to date and are answering the telephone

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ward clerks

A ... has specialized from the beginning by doing a course in midwifery, the management of pregnancy and childbirth.

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A midwife

Geburtshelfer / Hebamme

... visit patients in their homes

district nurse

... also work in the community, giving advide on the promotion of health and prevention of illness.

Health visitors.

duties of nuses

general patient care, checking temperatures, puls rates and blood pressure, changing dressings (Verband), giving injections, removing sutures (Wundnähte). Now nurses do some of the things presviously reserved for doctors, such as prescribing drugs, ordering laboratory tests.

carry out

Stellenübertrag

surgery

die Operation

in effort

im Bestreben ...

Operationssaal

operating theatre

Five nurses in Scotland are now qualified to carry out such procedures as

the removal of small lesions, benign moles and cysts.

Muttermal / Zyste

mole / cyst

perform / carry out

are used with all types of procedures. Often used in the passive form.

perform / carry out:

an examination, an operation, a procedure, an experiment, a test, a biopsy.

The procedure was performed / carried out by a nurse.

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Schmerzlinderung

relieve pain

Unterschiede: Prostehtists / Orthotists

Prostehtists: Provide artificial replacements for patients who have had an amputation or were born without a limb.

Orthotists: provide a range of splints and other devices to aid movement, correct deformity from an abnormal development of part of the body, for example club foor and relieve pain.

Optiker

opticians;

test eyesight, prescribe glasses (spectacles-Brille) and contact-lenses. Measuring intraocular pressure, examining the retina. If the opticians suspects an eye disease (glaucoma) the refer the patient to their GP for treatment. The GP may then refer the patient to an ophthalmologist, a doctor who is specialized in diseases of the eye.

to refer

verweisen, berichten, zuschreiben, an jmd. verweisen

Pilzbefall

fungal

Freizeit

leisure

bereitstellen / zur Verfügung stellen / erbringen

to provide

Lähmung

palsy

etw. benötigen / brauchen / einfordern / beanspruchen

to require sth.

Missbildung / Deformierung

deformity

umstellen - positionieren

reposition

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