| To clear up | If a rash or a cold (..), it goes away |
| To come out in a rash/spots | A rash or spots start covering part of your body |
| To come out of a coma | To wake up from a coma |
| To come round/come to | To regain consciousness after you have fainted |
| To go down with sth | To become ill with sth |
| To pass out | To faint, to lose consciousness |
| To pull through | To survive and recover from a serious illness |
| To put sb on sth | Doctor prescribes that medicine for you to take |
| To put your back out | To hurt your back, often because you have tried to lift sth very heavy |
| To shake (sth) off | To het rid of sth |
| To take a tooth out | To remove a tooth |
| To wear off | To stop having an effect |
| A blinding/splitting/thumping headache | A very bad headache |
| A bug | An illness which is easily caught bit which is not serious and probably lasts for two days |
| To feel as right as rain | To feel 100% well, after having previously felt ill |
| A highly infectious disease | A disease that is very easily passed from one person to another |
| To have/suffer a nervous breakdown | To become extremely depressed and unable to cope |
| To have (got) poor eyesight | Not to be able to see very well and probably needing to wear glasses or contact lenses |
| To be hard of hearing | Not to be able to hear very well and probably needing to use a hearing aid |
| A stomach/tummy bug | A bug which affects the stomach |
| A runny nose | You have a cold and your nose is producing a lot of liquid |
| To be seriously-ill | To be very ill and probably in hospital as a result |
| Shooting pains | Sudden, sharp pains which do not last for a long time but which do repeat themselves |
| A sore throat | Your throat hurts that you find it difficult to swallow and sometimes even to speak |
| A stinking cold | A very bad cold |
| To have a touch of flu | To have some of the symptoms of flu (a runny nose etc) but not be so ill that you need to go to bed |
| To feel (a bit) under the weather/off-colour | To feel slightly ill |
| To have an upset stomach/to have a stomach upset | Not to be able to keep anything in your stomach because you have probably eaten or drunk sth bad |
| To enable sb do sth | To make it possible for sb to do sth |
| To encourage sb (to do sth/in sth) | To say or do things that give sb the courage or confidence to do sth |
| Engrossed in sth | Paying all your attention to sth (a book, film, your own thoughts etc) |
| To enlist (in the army/navy/airforce) | To join (the army/navy/airforce) voluntarily |
| To enlist the help of sb | To get sb to help |
| To ensure | To make sure |
| To entail | (Formal) to make it necessary |
| To entitle sb to sth | To give sb the right to have sth |
| To envisage | To expect |
| Immaterial | Not important or relevant; comes after a noun and generally follows the verb to be |
| Immune to sth | You cannot catch a particular illness or disease (because you have a natural resisstance to it |
| Immune from prosecution | Cannot be arrested or charged with a crime |
| Impeccable | Perfect and without faults |
| Impertinent | Rude and disrespectful |
| Impervious to sth | Not bothered or affected by sth |
| Implausible | Not very convincing and probably not true |
| Impressive | Great in size or degree or done with great skill (only used for positive things) |
| Imposing | Big and impressive |
| Imposing person | Important, with a strong character |
| Impromptu | Without advanced preparation or practice |
| Impulsive | Doing things suddenly without thinking about them carefully first |