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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