Metaphors
Replace words in bold type with metaphor:
Sarah passed her exams very easily.
Sarah sailed through her exams.
Another word for sudden, burning pain
stinging
If a patients health is in the process of returning to normal, the patient is...
...improving
Another word for giving birth
Delivery
Replace words in bold type with metaphor:
My boss always changes the rules.
My boss always moves the goalposts.
English word for «лихорадочный»
feverish
When patients return to normal health after illness, they have...
...recovered
English word for «зачатие»
Conception
Replace words in bold type with metaphor:
Wedding preparаtions had reached its top point.
Wedding preparаtions had reached fever pitch.
Feeling as if everything is turning around and you are not able to balance.
dizzy
Another word for improvement, especially in recurring conditions such as cancer
remission
Russian word for «fertilization»
Оплодотворение
What medical metaphor means «to be permanently affected by a negative experience»?
carry the scars of/be scarred by.
Shaking slightly in a way that you cannot control, usually because of illness
trembling
English word for «рецидив»
relapse
Intentional ending of a pregnancy, usually by a medical operation
What medical metaphor means «sceptical because of previous bad experience»?
jaundiced
English words for «пульсирующая боль»
throbbing pain
If the patient got worse, we can say that their condition...
...detoriated
The last stage of pregnancy from the time when the muscles of the womb start to push the baby out of the body until the delivery
Labour