English for Medical Students

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Unit 6: The Digestive System

Listening Activity: Rounds Presentation -- Cholecystitis

Listen to the recording describing the patient; then answer the questions below by typing your answers into the boxes. Once you finished, go back and move your mouse of the "check your answer" and compare your answer with the one provided. Then relisten to the round presentation for extra practice.

   

Key Vocabulary
1. referred
2. chronic
3. insomnia
4. hernia
5. fistula
6. gall stones

7. denies
8. aneurysm
9. mitral valve insufficiency
10. bypass
11. pacemaker
12. benign

13. calm
14. lesions
15. pigmentation
16. calves
17. edema
18. symmetric

19. previous
20. accented
21. slight pain
22. detected
23. palpated
24. elevated
25. prophylaxis
26. discharged

  1. Why did the patient go to the hospital? Check your answer.

  2. The patient was referred to the hospital because of  and .  Check your answer.

  3. Both parents appear to have died from .  Check your answer.

  4. At age 6 the patient was operated on for an .  Check your answer.

  5. At age 18 the patient had meningitis (True or False).   Check your answer.

  6. The patient was taking medicine for , and .  Check your answer.

  7. The patient had a surgical repair of his aneurysm (True or False).   Check your answer.

  8. The only laboratory test that was elevated was .  Check your answer.

  9. The patient stopped smoking about ago.  Check your answer.

  10. In 2000 the patient underwent , and .  Check your answer.

  11. On examination the patient reported slight pain in .  Check your answer.

  12. The final diagnosis was .  Check your answer.