Medical English vocabulary builder

callipygian:

having beautifully proportioned buttocks

 steatopygic:

an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks

From “Why do men have nipples?”

Very random, I know, but I had to try and justify reading that pointless but entertaining book by getting a blog post out of it somehow! I probably could have made a whole lesson out of it if I still had some Medical English lessons, but unfortunately not. However, to make up for pushing out a couple of useful vocabulary items from your heads with that trivia, I will give you a real list of useful Medical and Pharmaceutical English links:

My Medical and Pharmaceutical English worksheets (top Google ranking and now available in PDF and Word formats- what more could you possibly ask for??)

A whole site of much more boring, but no doubt written by people who know much more about the subject than I do from my half-remembered A level biology: Hospital English.com

Englishmed.com multimedia practice for students, including:

Medical text reconstruction “games” for students (surprisingly soothing!)

Interactive health tutorials- not for language learners, but useful and interesting

Or you could just look at the Medical English links page where I just stole that idea from.

Or for the argumentative and/ or sociable amongst you, there’s a medical English forum.

And last but not least (I hope), Medical English worksheets on Englishclub.com, the TEFL.net sibling site.

Hopefully those 30 minutes of research are enough penance for the first four lines of this post…

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