Korean vocabulary list:
illness & medicine
- 가려움증–pruritus; itching
- 가렵다–itchy
- 가슴앓이–heartburn
- 간암–liver cancer
- 갈비–living skeleton
- 감기–cold
- 건강–health; wellbeing
- 걸리다–catch; contract
- 경직–stiffness; being stiff
- 경직성–stiffness
- 경직하다–be stiff
- 고름–pus
- 고혈압–high blood pressure
- 괴롭다–suffering
- 구토–vomiting
- 굳은살–callus
- 귓병–ear infection
- 금식–fast
- 기운–touch; feeling; symptom
- 기침–cough
- 까마득하다–completely forgotten; utterly ignorant
- 까마득히–completely forgotten; utterly ignorant
- 까맣다–completely forgotten; darkened
- 꽃–rash
- 나다–develop
- 낙태–abortion
- 내성–tolerance
- 놓다–inject; needle
- 담–congestion
- 답답하다–stifling; suffocating; stuffy; cramped
- 당뇨–diabetes
- 당뇨병–diabetes
- 대–A bound noun that serves as a unit for counting the number of cigarettes or the frequency of smoking
- 덧–infection of a wound; aggravation of a wound
- 독–poison
- 독감–flu; influenza
- 돌다–spread
- 돌림–epidemic
- 듣다–work
- 들다–get; have; catch; develop
- 딱지–scab
- 땀띠–heat rash
- 떨어지다–miscarry
- 떼다–abort
- 마비–paralysis
- 마사지–massage
- 말라리아–malaria
- 맞다–be injected
- 먹다–take; dose up with; be eaten
- 먹다–be deaf
- 멍울–mental scar; pain; lump; swelling
- 목감기–sore throat
- 몸살–body aching all over
- 바람–palsy
- 벙어리–mute
- 변비–constipation
- 병–disease; illness
- 보다–examine; see
- 분열–schizophrenia
- 사시–squinter; cross-eyed person
- 상처–wound; scar; injury
- 성형–plastic surgery
- 성형 수술–plastic surgery
- 수술–surgery; operation
- 수액–medical fluid; saline solution
- 수포–blister
- 술독–blotchy face from drinking
- 시다–feeling a twinge; dazzled
- 신약–new drug
- 신약–wonder drug; miracle drug
- 썩다–be decayed
- 아픔–pain; ache; agony
- 안마–massage; rubdown
- 안정–stabilization
- 알–muscle knot
- 암–cancer; tumor
- 약–medicine; medication; pill; drug
- 양성–positivity; benignancy
- 얼음–ice
- 없애다–eliminate; get rid of; eradicate
- 열–fever
- 영양분–nourishment; nutrient
- 영양실조–malnutrition
- 오다–be felt; come
- 오르다–be infected
- 옴–scabies
- 옻–lacquer poisoning
- 원시–long-sightedness
- 유방암–breast cancer
- 유산–miscarriage
- 유혈–bloodshed
- 음성–negativity
- 의학–medicine
- 인플루엔자–influenza
- 잔기침–slight coughs; hacking coughs
- 잔병–minor ailments; slight illnesses
- 장염–enteritis
- 저혈압–hypotension
- 정복–conquest
- 주사–injection
- 쥐–cramp
- 증–A suffix used to mean a symptom or a disease
- 지우다–have an abortion
- 진료–medical treatment
- 진정제–sedative; tranquilizer
- 질병–illness
- 짜릿짜릿–tinglingly
- 짜릿하다–tingling
- 찌릿찌릿–throbbingly
- 찜–hotpacking; coldpacking; bath
- 처방–prescription
- 첩–pack
- 치유–treatment; cure
- 치통–toothache
- 침투–getting through
- 코–nasal discharge
- 코감기–sinus cold
- 콧물–nasal discharge
- 탈–disease
- 틀니–dentures; artificial teeth
- 한의학–traditional Korean medicine
- 환–pill
- 흐릿하다–dim; blurred; dull
- 흠집–flaw; crack; scratch; scar
- 힘–power; effect