Learn the Top 10 Words for Injuries in English

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hi everybody welcome back to top words

my name is Alisha and in this episode

we’re going to talk about ten words for

injuries so let’s get started break

fracture the first word is break or

fracture so these two verbs are used

interchangeably actually they both refer

to a broken bone or a fractured bone so

two pieces of bone become separated or a

bone becomes broken so fractured it

comes apart so to break a bone in

present tense is I broke a bone in past

tense fracture is a regular verb which

means the past tense is fractured so in

a sentence I broke my wrist when I fell

snowboarding mm-hmm that’s true that’s

true I broke my wrist when I felt

snowboarding and that inspired today’s

lesson sprain the next word is spraying

spraying to sprain something refers to a

refers to hurting or to injuring a

ligament so a ligament are these sort of

like fibrous things like kind of they

connect their the parts of the body

inside your body they connect bones to

muscles or bones to her to like organs

they hold the parts of the body together

inside so a sprain is damaged to a

ligament a sprain so we can say for

example to sprain a part of the body a

specific part of the body some common

examples come from sports injuries like

he sprained his ankle playing basketball

last week or I sprained my wrist working

in the garden or something I don’t know

but I think a sprain happens when you

push the like the joint or you push that

part of the body beyond the possible or

the reasonable range of motion so my

example sentence I already said it but

he sprained his ankle at the basketball

game last week bruised the next word is

bruised bruised so a bruise refers to

taking like a taking an impact something

that’s not a sharp impact it’s usually

like a blunt impact I suppose I don’t

know kind of depends but anyway a bruise

we can use it as a noun or as a verb

actually to bruise something means you

damage usually like a this the a certain

area of skin and blood collects under

the skin creating like a black or blue

or maybe even like greenish color purple

maybe to use it as a noun we can say

that that spot is a bruise we refer to

that damaged area as a bruise to use it

as a verb however we can say I bruised

my arm or I bruised my leg

so to bruise something means to cause

damage but it’s like under the skin we

can see the color change because of the

damage the blood collecting there so

that’s to bruise something in a sentence

I bruised my arm when I ran into the

door

cut the next word is cut cut so cut is

done with a sharp object a cut a cut

refers to an injury which causes blood

to emerge usually unless it’s a very

shallow cut shallow is the opposite of

deep so a cut is caused by a sharp

object so a knife is probably the most

common thing that comes to mind when

talking about cuts though another very

common type of cut is is called a paper

cut as a noun so if you’ve ever tried to

take a piece of paper and the paper

piece of paper has kind of made a small

cut on your hand

that’s called a paper cut a paper cut so

it’s that kind of slice motion that

injures the body is a cut all right in a

sentence

be careful not to cut yourself when

using a knife

wound the next word is wound wound so a

wound is just a place of injury on the

body we have a couple of different words

we can use to be specific about wounds

they’re like an open wound and a closed

wound I suppose you could say but

usually people say things like don’t

touch open wounds so an open wound is

usually like a fresh wound so something

has been recently damaged on the body

recently injured and the wound is fresh

maybe we can see blood or maybe we can

see into the body or something that’s

considered an open wound so a closed

wound would be perhaps a wound which has

been fixed by a doctor or for small

wounds like maybe the body has created a

new layer over the top of the wound

that’s called a scab you you scabs you

but that’s that’s not an open wound then

but we should still care for it so a

wound is a place on the body that is

injured in some way a wound that’s used

as a noun we can also use wound as a

verb which means to hurt something like

I wounded my arm but wound is not so

common it I think in everyday speech

instead we use the verb hurt I hurt my

arm but I’ll talk more about this later

so in a sentence don’t touch open wounds

injure the next word is injure injure so

I’ve been talking a little bit about the

word injure to injure means to hurt a

part of the body so to injure your arm

to injure your head to injure your neck

these mean to take damage on that part

of the body to injure something so it’s

typically a bad thing to injure

something the noun form of this word is

injury injury so I have an injury we use

this word more with likes prep sports

I guess military I guess but for for

everyday like just small I don’t know

for small injuries I suppose like paper

cuts for example or like maybe a cooking

accident I suppose we don’t really say

injury we will say we’ll use the verb

hurt actually again I’ll talk about that

word a little later but injury injury is

damage taking damage to a part of the

body in a sentence she injured her

shoulder this morning

tear the next word is tear tear be

careful this word is spelled te AR it

looks like tear but used as a verb it is

tear tear to talk about an injury so a

tear if you can imagine like a piece of

paper when we want to separate it into

two pieces we can tear the piece of

paper now imagine that same idea but

with a muscle in the body so a muscle

tear refers to that kind of damage to

the muscle so quite painful I think you

can imagine so to tear a muscle requires

yeah some serious recovery time I

imagine I have never torn a muscle yeah

that’s a good point the past participle

form is torn torn have you ever torn a

muscle or in the past tense the past

tense is tore I tore my shoulder muscle

last week awful awful in a sentence

tearing a muscle is painful pull pull

pull

so we use pull again with muscles but

this is different from tear so to tear a

muscle refers to this kind of break

motion so to pull a muscle means to

stretch a muscle too much so it’s the

muscle is like just taken beyond its

limits essentially and so it kind of

causes some discomfort there’s kind of a

bad feeling in the muscle in a sentence

I think I pulled a muscle

ouch dislocate dislocate dislocate so

here we see the word locate referring to

location and dis dis which means not in

other words so to dislocate something

refers to removing a part of the body

from its correct position and

shifting it slightly so this is

something that you hear with joints so a

joint is a part of the body where two

things come together so for example a

shoulder we can talk about the shoulder

and dislocate together so if we say a

sentence like I think I dislocated my

shoulder

maybe the correct position of part of

the shoulder is to fit into another bone

like this but maybe dislocating the

shoulder means like it moved this way or

I don’t know how to dislocate the

shoulder but either way the correct

position is here the dislocated position

is maybe here here I don’t know

so the bone is not broken there’s no

crack there’s no break there it’s just a

shift in position so the word we use is

dislocate to dislocate something in a

sentence he dislocated his shoulder and

popped it back into place hurt hurt to

hurt something I’ve talked about this

verb a few times already in this lesson

but to hurt means to injure or to wound

it’s like the very general verb that we

can use to describe all damage to the

body so hurt generally means kind of a

small injury like I hurt my finger I

slammed it in the door or I think I hurt

my arm playing tennis last week we

usually use this for kind of minor

injuries not such big injuries so in

this case for example if I say I hurt my

wrist it sounds a little too minor

actually this is probably a more severe

injury I would probably say yeah i okay

wrist I would use something very

specific

instead of hurt to prefer more generally

to just small everyday damage to the

body you can say hurt we also used this

word to refer to pain in the body too

like oh my arm hurts how my wrist hurts

instead of saying painful we use the

verb hurts more often so it’s less

natural to say my wrist is so painful

instead we say my wrist hurts it hurts

is better than painful

that out in a sentence I hurt myself a

lot on accident so those are ten words

you can use to talk about injuries I

hope that that’s helpful for you and now

you have some specific vocabulary to

talk about the various ways we can

damage our body if you have any

questions or comments or if you want to

share about a time you were injured

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you again soon oh my it’s kind of a

terrible image huh a terrible image I’m

very sorry okay we can call that a noun

we can call that a noun this is a noun

no I gave my love a purple now when I

ran into the door

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