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to clear up
The doctor gave me some ointment and told me that the rash should clear up within five days
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if a rash or a cold clears up, it goes away
to come out in a rash/spots
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if you come out in a rash/spots, a rash or spots start covering part or all of your body
to come out of coma
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to wake up from a coma
to come round
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to regain consciousness after you have fainted
to come down with sth = to get sick
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to become ill with sth
to pass out, faint
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to faint, to lose consciousness
to pull through
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to survive and recover from a serious illness
to put sb on sth
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: if a doctor puts you on a particular course of medicine, he prescribes that medicine for you to take
to put your back out
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to hurt your back, often because you have tried to lift sth very heavy
to shake sth off
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to get rid of sth
to take a tooth out
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to remove a tooth
to wear off
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to stop having an effect
a blinding, splitting, thumpling headache
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a very bad headache
a bug
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an illness which is easily caught but which is not serious and probably lasts for two or three days
to feel as right as a rain
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to feel 100% well, after having previously felt ill
a highly infectious disease
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a disease that is very easily passed from one person to another
to suffer a nervous breakdown
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to become extremely depressed and unableto cope
to have poor eyesight
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not to be able to see very well and probably needing to wear glasses or contact lenses [Note: to be hard of hearing: not to be able to hear very well and probably needing to use a hearing aid]
to be seriously ill
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to be very ill and probably in hospital as a result
shooting pains
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sudden, sharp pains which do not last for a long time but which do repeat themselves
stinking cold
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a very bad cold
to have a touch of flu
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to have some of the symptoms of flu (a runny nose, a headache, etc) but not be so ill that you need to go to bed
to feel (a bit) under the weatherl off-colour
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to feel slightly ill
to have an upset stomach/to have stomach upset:
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not be able to keep anything in your stomach because you have probably eaten or drunk sth bad

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