Exam Questions on Words Associated with Medicine/Health and Insurance

There is no doubt to say that a series of questions is set on registers. As we know, there are types of registers, though words associated with medicine/health and insurance will be discussed in this article. The author of this article has tried to make attempts to explain the complex terms in registers of medicine/health and insurance. The author provides ample questions from some renowned examination bodies to apply what readers have read. We believe that this article will benefit a lot of learners and researchers.

Medicine and Health

The words associated with medicine and health are words or terms relating to the learning of medicine and health. In many local and international examinations, registered vocabularies are tested. Therefore, there is a need to learn those words. In terms of this field, certain of medicine and health have been explained below to make your examinations both local and international easier. Study the following registered words very carefully:

Contagious disease: It is a disease spread by having contact with a patient suffering from it, etc. sexually transmitted diseases.

Infectious disease: It is a disease contracted by being in the same place as a person who has it, e.g. smallpox, tuberculosis, etc.

A pathologist: A doctor who studied pathology, and examines a dead body to find out the cause of death. Pathology is the science of examining a dead body and finding out the cause of the death.

Pandemic: This is a disease that spreads over the whole world, e.g. HIV/AIDS, cholera, Coronavirus (COVID-19), etc.

A pediatrician: A doctor who studied pediatrics, and treats the diseases of children. Paediatrics means the study of the diseases of children.

Orthopedics: This is the branch of medicine concerned with injuries and diseases of the bones or the muscles.

An ophthalmologist: A doctor who treats the diseases of the eyes. He is also called an optician. Ophthalmology is the study of how to treat diseases of the eyes.

An obstetrician: A doctor who is trained in obstetrics is concerned with the birth of children. Obstetrics is the study concerning the birth of children.

Surgeon: A doctor specializing in surgical operation or surgery. Surgery is the medical treatment of injuries or diseases that involve cutting open a person’s body and removing or replacing some parts.

A physiotherapist: A person whose job is to give patients physiotherapy. Physiotherapy is the treatment of disease, injury, or weakness in the joints or muscles by exercise.

A pharmacist: A person whose job is to prepare medicine and sell or give them to the public in a shop/store or a hospital

A neurologist: A doctor who treats the diseases of the nerves. Neurology is the scientific study of nerves and their diseases.

A gynecologist: A doctor who treats the medical conditions and diseases of women. Gynecology is the study of how to treat medical conditions and diseases of women.

A dentist: An expert in the treatment of teeth

Haematology: A doctor who treats the blood and its diseases

Hematology: This is the scientific study of the blood and its diseases.

A radiologist: A doctor who is trained in radiology. Radiology is the study and use of different types of radiation in medicine, for example for treating diseases.

Patient: A person who visits a hospital for treatment

Sprain: Injury to a ligament/tendon

Debilitating: Weakening, e.g. malaria fever, etc.

Chronic: Long-lasting, e.g. tuberculosis, pneumonia, etc.

Diagnose: It identifies the area of weakness.

After you have read and studied the words associated with medicine and health above, a short test below is important to do for the assessment of what you have read.

Evaluation

Choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gaps in the passage below.

When Mrs. Dada took her sick baby to the hospital, the doctor told her that the baby did not have much _____1____ to the parasites which the laboratory __2__ identified in the blood __3__. He told her to give the baby the prescribed drugs and keep out the mosquitoes that __4__ the diseases. The disease was in its early __5__ but the most evident symptom was the __6__ of the eye membranes. This was caused by the trachoma virus, which could be seen under a __7__ because it is even smaller than bacterial __8__ trachoma virus could cause blindness, so Mrs. Dada had to protect her family from this ___9__ disease. She should keep up a high standard of __10__ by __11__ her towels and face clothes. The doctor also wrote out a __12__ of antibiotics drugs and vitamin A tablets which should be got from a __13__. She was assured that this treatment would __14__ the baby and restore him to good __15__ in two or three days.

Insurance

The words associated with insurance are words or terms relating to the learning of insurance. In many local and international examinations, registered vocabularies are tested. Therefore, there is a need to learn those words. In terms of this field, certain insurance has been explained below to make your examinations both local and international easier. Study the following registered words very carefully:

A client: A person who uses the services or advice of a professional person or organization, particularly an insurance company.

Insurance Agents: Those who are working with insurance companies

Comprehensive policy: A policy has to do with insurance that covers the outsider and his property.

Third-party insurance: Insurance that covers you if you injure somebody or damage somebody else’s property.

Insurance policy: A written contract between a person and an insurance company

Insured: Being insured or having insurance

The insured: The person who has agreed with an insurance company and who receives money if, for example, they are ill or if they lost or damage some things.

Bonus: This is an extra amount of money that is added to a payment, especially to somebody else’s wages as a reward.

Policyholder: She/he is the beneficiary of the insurance or the claimant.

Actuary: A person whose job involves calculating insurance risks and payments for insurance companies by studying how frequently accidents, fires, death, etc. occur.

Claimant: A person who claims something because he believes he has a right to it.

Premium: It is the amount of money that one pays once or regularly for an insurance policy.

A risk: A person or that an insurance company is willing or unwilling to lend money or sell insurance to because they are likely or unlikely to pay back the money, e.g. a good/bad/poor insurance risk.

After you have read and studied the words associated with medicine and health above, a short test below is important to do for the assessment of what you have read.

Practice Question

Use your dictionary and provide meanings for the following insurance-registered terms:

emergencies, contract, insurance broker, collision, insurance administrators, write-off, take out.

Evaluation

Choose each of the words that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gaps in the passage

below.

Jide bought his car last year and now there is the need to renew the __1__. The first time he went to Mr Olumide, the __2___, he was advised to __3__ a __4__ rather than a __5__ cover. Mr. Olumide had carefully explained the merits and demerits of both types, which included the fact that one was far more __6_ than the other.

Now Jide has cause to smile because of his entitlement to a no-claim __7__. Being a careful owner–driver, he had not been involved in any __8__ during the period. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for his friend, Jackson, whose car was a total __9__ after a __10__ with a truck. He could not even make any claim for __1__, because he was not __12_ at all. Jackson’s experience points to the need for insurance __13__ to educate prospective __14__ on the benefit of insurance.

(WAEC June 2001)