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YÖKDİL Health Vocabulary List: 285 Words with Definitions
YÖKDİL is Türkiye's higher-education English exam, sat by academics and postgraduate applicants, and it is split into three fields. This is the Sağlık Bilimleri (Health Sciences) field: anatomy, disease, treatment, clinical trials and public health. Words were taken from recent YÖKDİL health papers, so it is a curated practice pool rather than an official ÖSYM list.
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| Achieve | To succeed in doing something after effort. | Play ▶ |
| Acquire | To get or buy something. | Play ▶ |
| Active | Always busy and doing things.Working or happening right now. | Play ▶ |
| Administer | To manage or organize the work of a company or system.To give medicine or treatment to someone. | Play ▶ |
| Advice | Suggestions about what someone should do. | Play ▶ |
| Affect | To cause a change in someone or something. | Play ▶ |
| Alcohol | The substance in beer, wine, and spirits that makes people drunk. | Play ▶ |
| Alert | Quick to notice things and ready to act. | Play ▶ |
| Alive | Possessing life.(often followed by `with') full of life and spirit. | Play ▶ |
| Analysis | The careful study of something to understand how it works. | Play ▶ |
| Ankle | The joint that connects your foot to your leg. | Play ▶ |
| Anxious | Worried about something that might happen. | Play ▶ |
| Appetite | The feeling of wanting to eat. | Play ▶ |
| Approach | A particular way of dealing with a problem or task.To move closer to someone or something. | Play ▶ |
| Area | A part of a town, a country, or the world.A subject or field of study or work. | Play ▶ |
| Asleep | Sleeping. | Play ▶ |
| Aspect | One part of a situation or subject. | Play ▶ |
| Assert | To say firmly that something is true. | Play ▶ |
| Assess | To judge how serious, big, or important something is. | Play ▶ |
| Assist | To help someone do something. | Play ▶ |
| Assume | To believe something is true without being certain. | Play ▶ |
| Authority | The power to give orders and make others obey.An official group that controls a public service. | Play ▶ |
| Available | Able to be used, bought, or found.Free to talk or meet because you are not busy. | Play ▶ |
| Average | The value found by adding amounts and dividing by how many there are. | Play ▶ |
| Awake | Not sleeping.To stop sleeping. | Play ▶ |
| Balance | A steady position that keeps you from falling. | Play ▶ |
| Benefit | An advantage or profit gained from something.Receive an advantage. | Play ▶ |
| Blood | The red liquid inside your body.Family background or origin. | Play ▶ |
| Breath | The air taken into or expelled from the lungs.A slight indication or suggestion. | Play ▶ |
| Capacity | The largest amount that something can hold. | Play ▶ |
| Casualty | A person hurt or killed in an accident or attack. | Play ▶ |
| Category | A group of things with shared features. | Play ▶ |
| Cause | The reason something happens. | Play ▶ |
| Chapter | One of the main parts that a book is divided into. | Play ▶ |
| Chest | The front of your body between your neck and stomach. | Play ▶ |
| Child | A young person of either sex.A human offspring (son or daughter) of any age. | Play ▶ |
| Chronic | Lasting a long time or coming back often, especially an illness. | Play ▶ |
| Clean | Free from dirt, marks, or stains.To remove dirt or stains from something. | Play ▶ |
| Clinic | A place where people receive medical advice or treatment. | Play ▶ |
| Cognitive | Related to thinking, learning, and remembering. | Play ▶ |
| Cohort | A group of people with something in common, such as age. | Play ▶ |
| Collapse | To fall down suddenly because support fails. | Play ▶ |
| Comfort | A state of being relaxed and feeling no pain.The act of consoling; giving relief in affliction. | Play ▶ |
| Commission | An official group of people given a particular job to do.Money paid to a seller for each item they sell. | Play ▶ |
| Community | All the people who live in a particular area or town. | Play ▶ |
| Complex | Having many connected parts that are hard to understand. | Play ▶ |
| Compute | To calculate an amount or number. | Play ▶ |
| Concept | A general idea about what something is or how it works. | Play ▶ |
| Conclude | To decide something is true after thinking about the facts.To end something, such as a speech or meeting. | Play ▶ |
| Conduct | To organize and carry out an activity, such as a survey.To direct a group of musicians as they play. | Play ▶ |
| Confirm | To show that something is true or correct. | Play ▶ |
| Consent | Permission for something to happen. | Play ▶ |
| Consist | To be made up of certain parts or things. | Play ▶ |
| Constitute | To make up a whole, together with other parts.To be seen as or count as something, such as a crime. | Play ▶ |
| Construct | To build something such as a house, road, or bridge.To create an argument, theory, or sentence carefully. | Play ▶ |
| Consume | To use up fuel, energy, time, or other supplies.To eat or drink something. | Play ▶ |
| Context | The situation that helps explain an event or idea. | Play ▶ |
| Contract | A written legal agreement between two or more people. | Play ▶ |
| Control | The power to decide what happens or how something works. | Play ▶ |
| Create | Make or cause to be or to become.Bring into existence. | Play ▶ |
| Credit | An arrangement to buy things now and pay later.Praise for something you have done well. | Play ▶ |
| Criteria | Standards used to judge or choose something. | Play ▶ |
| Culture | The beliefs, customs, and way of life of a group. | Play ▶ |
| Damage | Harm that makes something broken or less useful. | Play ▶ |
| Danger | The possibility of suffering harm or injury.A person or thing that is likely to cause harm. | Play ▶ |
| Data | Facts and numbers collected to be studied or used. | Play ▶ |
| Decline | To become smaller, weaker, or less. | Play ▶ |
| Deficit | The amount by which spending is greater than income. | Play ▶ |
| Define | To explain exactly what a word means.To show what something is. | Play ▶ |
| Derive | To get something from a particular source. | Play ▶ |
| Design | A plan showing how something will look or work. | Play ▶ |
| Detect | To discover something that is hidden or hard to notice. | Play ▶ |
| Diminish | To make or become smaller or less important. | Play ▶ |
| Distinct | Clearly different from something else. | Play ▶ |
| Distribute | To give things out to a number of people. | Play ▶ |
| Doctor | A person whose job is to treat people who are ill. | Play ▶ |
| Dosage | The amount of medicine to take and how often to take it. | Play ▶ |
| Drink | To take water or another liquid into your mouth and swallow it. | Play ▶ |
| Dying | Close to the end of life. | Play ▶ |
| Economy | The system of trade, industry, and money in a country.The cheapest class of seats on a plane. | Play ▶ |
| Effect | A change that happens because of something else.The result of an action. | Play ▶ |
| Efficacy | The ability to produce the intended result. | Play ▶ |
| Elbows | The joints in the middle of your arms.The outside part of your arm where it bends. | Play ▶ |
| Element | One part of something larger. | Play ▶ |
| Eligible | Allowed to do or receive something under the rules. | Play ▶ |
| Eliminate | To remove something completely. | Play ▶ |
| Empirical | Based on what is observed or tested. | Play ▶ |
| Enhance | To improve the quality or value of something. | Play ▶ |
| Equation | A mathematical statement showing that two amounts are equal. | Play ▶ |
| Establish | To start a company, organization, or system that will last.To find out or prove the facts about something. | Play ▶ |
| Estimate | A rough calculation of an amount or cost. | Play ▶ |
| Evaluate | To study something carefully and decide how useful it is. | Play ▶ |
| Evident | Easy to see or understand. | Play ▶ |
| Examine | To look at something carefully.To test someone's knowledge or health. | Play ▶ |
| Exclude | To leave someone or something out. | Play ▶ |
| Exhaust | To make someone extremely tired. | Play ▶ |
| Export | To send goods to another country to sell them.A product sold to a different country. | Play ▶ |
| Expose | To reveal something that was hidden. | Play ▶ |
| Facial | Relating to the face.A beauty treatment for the face. | Play ▶ |
| Factor | One of the things that causes something to happen.A number that divides into another number smoothly. | Play ▶ |
| Feature | An important or noticeable part of something. | Play ▶ |
| Fibers | Thin threads that make up cloth or other materials. | Play ▶ |
| Final | Coming at the end; last.The last game in a competition, which decides the winner. | Play ▶ |
| Finance | The management of large amounts of money.To provide the money needed for something. | Play ▶ |
| Finger | Each of the four slender jointed parts attached to either hand.To touch or feel something with the hands. | Play ▶ |
| Fluids | Substances that can flow, such as liquids and gases. | Play ▶ |
| Focus | To give all your attention to one thing.The main point of interest. | Play ▶ |
| Formula | A rule in math or science written with letters and symbols.A fixed method for reaching a certain result. | Play ▶ |
| Fragile | Easy to break or damage. | Play ▶ |
| Function | The purpose or job that something has.To work or operate in the correct way. | Play ▶ |
| Guideline | Advice about how to do something. | Play ▶ |
| Habits | Things that you do often and almost without thinking. | Play ▶ |
| Handicap | A disadvantage that makes success harder. | Play ▶ |
| Hazard | Something that could cause harm. | Play ▶ |
| Hazardous | Likely to cause harm or danger. | Play ▶ |
| Health | The condition of your body, how well you are. | Play ▶ |
| Heart | The organ in your chest that pumps blood.The center of a person's emotions, especially love. | Play ▶ |
| Height | How tall someone or something is. | Play ▶ |
| Helmet | A hard hat that protects your head. | Play ▶ |
| Humans | People, including adults and children. | Play ▶ |
| Hunger | The feeling that you need to eat. | Play ▶ |
| Hungry | Wanting or needing to eat. | Play ▶ |
| Hypothesis | A possible explanation that can be tested. | Play ▶ |
| Identify | To recognize and name who or what someone or something is. | Play ▶ |
| Illness | Being sick or having a disease. | Play ▶ |
| Immune | Protected against a particular disease. | Play ▶ |
| Impact | The strong effect that something has. | Play ▶ |
| Implement | To put a plan or decision into action. | Play ▶ |
| Income | Money that you earn from your job. | Play ▶ |
| Indicate | To show that something is true or likely.To point to something with your finger or hand. | Play ▶ |
| Individual | One person, considered apart from a group.Relating to one person or thing, not to a group. | Play ▶ |
| Induce | To cause something to happen. | Play ▶ |
| Infant | A baby or very young child. | Play ▶ |
| Infect | To cause a living thing to develop a disease by passing germs to it. | Play ▶ |
| Infer | To reach an idea from evidence rather than a direct statement. | Play ▶ |
| Inhale | To breathe air into your lungs. | Play ▶ |
| Inhibit | To slow down or prevent a process. | Play ▶ |
| Initiate | To cause a process or activity to begin. | Play ▶ |
| Injury | Harm or damage to your body. | Play ▶ |
| Innate | Present from birth rather than learned. | Play ▶ |
| Inspect | To look at something carefully to check its condition. | Play ▶ |
| Instinct | A natural pattern of behavior that does not need to be learned. | Play ▶ |
| Institute | An organization set up for study, research, or teaching. | Play ▶ |
| Intact | Whole and not damaged. | Play ▶ |
| Intake | The amount of food, drink, or air taken into the body. | Play ▶ |
| Intense | Very strong or extreme. | Play ▶ |
| Internal | Inside something. | Play ▶ |
| Interpret | To explain the meaning of something. | Play ▶ |
| Interval | A period of time between two events. | Play ▶ |
| Invest | To put money into something, hoping to earn more. | Play ▶ |
| Involve | To include something as a necessary part.To make someone take part in something. | Play ▶ |
| Isolate | To separate someone or something from others. | Play ▶ |
| Issue | An important topic that people discuss or argue about.To officially give or supply something, such as a passport. | Play ▶ |
| Item | A single thing in a collection or list. | Play ▶ |
| Joint | A place in your body where two bones meet, like your knee. | Play ▶ |
| Journal | A personal written record of experiences and thoughts. | Play ▶ |
| Justify | To give a good reason for an action or belief. | Play ▶ |
| Labor | Work that requires physical or mental effort. | Play ▶ |
| Legal | Allowed by the laws of a country.Relating to the law or to lawyers. | Play ▶ |
| Legislate | To make or pass laws. | Play ▶ |
| Maintain | To keep something in good condition. | Play ▶ |
| Major | Very important or large in size or effect. | Play ▶ |
| Manual | A book explaining how to use or do something. | Play ▶ |
| Maturity | The state of being fully grown or developed. | Play ▶ |
| Maximum | The largest possible quantity.The point on a curve where the tangent changes from positive on the left to negative on the right. | Play ▶ |
| Memory | The ability to remember information and experiences. | Play ▶ |
| Mental | Related to the mind. | Play ▶ |
| Method | A particular way of doing something. | Play ▶ |
| Minimize | To reduce something to the smallest possible amount. | Play ▶ |
| Mitigate | To make something harmful less severe. | Play ▶ |
| Mouth | The part of your face used for eating and speaking. | Play ▶ |
| Muscle | Body tissue that tightens and relaxes to produce movement. | Play ▶ |
| Negligible | Too small to matter much. | Play ▶ |
| Nerve | A part of the body that carries signals to and from the brain. | Play ▶ |
| Neural | Relating to nerves or the nervous system. | Play ▶ |
| Normal | Usual or expected in a particular situation. | Play ▶ |
| Obtain | To get something you want or need. | Play ▶ |
| Occur | Happen or take place as an event. | Play ▶ |
| Organ | A part of the body with a particular job, such as the heart. | Play ▶ |
| Outcome | The final result of an action or event. | Play ▶ |
| Oxygen | A colorless gas needed by humans and animals for breathing. | Play ▶ |
| Parameter | A limit or condition that shapes what can be done. | Play ▶ |
| Perceive | To notice something through your senses. | Play ▶ |
| Percent | One part in every hundred, shown by the sign %. | Play ▶ |
| Period | A length of time. | Play ▶ |
| Persist | To continue doing something despite difficulty. | Play ▶ |
| Phase | One stage in a process of change. | Play ▶ |
| Plague | A serious disease that spreads and kills many people. | Play ▶ |
| Plasma | The liquid part of blood that carries blood cells. | Play ▶ |
| Poison | Something that makes you very sick or kills you if eaten.To put a harmful substance in food or drink. | Play ▶ |
| Policy | A plan or set of rules used to guide decisions. | Play ▶ |
| Positive | Hopeful and confident about the future.Showing that a disease or substance is present in a test. | Play ▶ |
| Potent | Having a strong effect. | Play ▶ |
| Potential | The possibility of developing or succeeding in the future. | Play ▶ |
| Precise | Exact and accurate. | Play ▶ |
| Predict | To say what you think will happen in the future. | Play ▶ |
| Previous | Happening or existing before the one now. | Play ▶ |
| Primary | Main or most important.Relating to education for children aged about 5 to 11. | Play ▶ |
| Principle | A basic idea or rule that explains how something works.A belief about what is right that guides your behavior. | Play ▶ |
| Proceed | To continue after a pause. | Play ▶ |
| Process | A series of steps taken to reach a result.To deal with information, documents, or requests. | Play ▶ |
| Protocol | An agreed set of rules for an official activity. | Play ▶ |
| Psychology | The scientific study of the mind and behaviour. | Play ▶ |
| Pulse | The regular beat you can feel as your heart pumps blood. | Play ▶ |
| Purchase | To buy something, especially something expensive.Something that you have bought. | Play ▶ |
| Quantity | The amount or number of something. | Play ▶ |
| Random | Happening without a clear plan or pattern. | Play ▶ |
| Range | The limits between which an amount can change, like ages 5 to 10.A group of different things of the same general type. | Play ▶ |
| Reduce | Make something smaller in size, amount, or degree. | Play ▶ |
| Region | A particular part of a country or the world. | Play ▶ |
| Regulation | An official rule made by a government or organization. | Play ▶ |
| Relax | To rest and become less worried or tense. | Play ▶ |
| Relevant | Directly connected with the subject being discussed. | Play ▶ |
| Relief | The pleasant feeling when worry or pain ends. | Play ▶ |
| Remedy | A treatment used to relieve an illness or symptom. | Play ▶ |
| Report | A spoken or written account of facts about something. | Play ▶ |
| Reproduce | To make a copy of something. | Play ▶ |
| Require | To need something for a particular purpose.To make someone do something because of a rule or law. | Play ▶ |
| Rescue | Save someone or something from danger. | Play ▶ |
| Research | Careful study of a subject to discover new facts.To collect information about a topic by reading and studying. | Play ▶ |
| Reside | To live in a particular place. | Play ▶ |
| Resource | A supply of something useful, such as money, oil, or workers. | Play ▶ |
| Respond | To say or write something as an answer.To act or change because of something that happens. | Play ▶ |
| Restrict | To limit the amount, size, or number of something. | Play ▶ |
| Result | Something that happens because of an action or event. | Play ▶ |
| Review | To examine something carefully and decide whether it needs changes. | Play ▶ |
| Rigorous | Very careful and thorough. | Play ▶ |
| Role | The part someone plays in an activity or organization.The character that an actor plays in a film or play. | Play ▶ |
| Safety | The state of being protected from danger or harm. | Play ▶ |
| Sample | A small part chosen to represent a larger whole. | Play ▶ |
| Section | One of the parts that something is divided into. | Play ▶ |
| Sector | One part of a country's economy, such as farming or banking. | Play ▶ |
| Secure | Safe from danger, damage, or loss. | Play ▶ |
| Seek | To try to find or get something. | Play ▶ |
| Select | To choose someone or something from a group. | Play ▶ |
| Severe | Very bad or intense. | Play ▶ |
| Shiver | To shake slightly because of cold or fear. | Play ▶ |
| Shock | A strong feeling of surprise or distress. | Play ▶ |
| Shoulder | The part of the body between the neck and the upper arm.A ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula. | Play ▶ |
| Similar | Almost the same as something else, but not exactly. | Play ▶ |
| Site | A place where something is, was, or will be built.A place on the internet with pages about a subject. | Play ▶ |
| Sleep | To rest with your eyes closed and your body relaxed. | Play ▶ |
| Source | A place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained.Obtain from a particular place. | Play ▶ |
| Specific | Exact and clearly identified. | Play ▶ |
| Stable | A farm building for housing horses or other livestock.Firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation. | Play ▶ |
| Strategy | A careful plan for reaching a goal over time. | Play ▶ |
| Stress | Worry or pressure caused by difficult situations. | Play ▶ |
| Structure | The way the parts of something are arranged. | Play ▶ |
| Suffer | To experience pain or something unpleasant. | Play ▶ |
| Sugar | A sweet white or brown powder used in food.A sweet tasting carbohydrate. | Play ▶ |
| Supplement | Something added to make a supply or work more complete. | Play ▶ |
| Suppress | To stop information from becoming public. | Play ▶ |
| Survey | A set of questions used to find out people's opinions or habits. | Play ▶ |
| Sustain | To keep something going over time. | Play ▶ |
| Synthesis | The process of combining separate ideas into a whole. | Play ▶ |
| Tendency | A usual way someone behaves or something develops. | Play ▶ |
| Terminate | To bring something to an end. | Play ▶ |
| Text | The written words in a book, article, or document.A written message sent from one mobile phone to another. | Play ▶ |
| Theory | An explanation based on ideas and evidence. | Play ▶ |
| Thirst | A need or strong desire to drink. | Play ▶ |
| Throat | The inside passage in your neck used for swallowing and breathing. | Play ▶ |
| Tolerance | Willingness to accept beliefs or behavior different from your own. | Play ▶ |
| Tongue | The soft part in your mouth used for tasting and speaking.A language spoken by a group of people. | Play ▶ |
| Toxic | Containing poison or able to cause harm. | Play ▶ |
| Toxicity | The degree to which a substance is poisonous. | Play ▶ |
| Tradition | A custom or belief passed from one generation to the next. | Play ▶ |
| Transfer | To move someone or something to another place. | Play ▶ |
| Transient | Lasting only a short time. | Play ▶ |
| Transmit | To send a signal or message from one place to another. | Play ▶ |
| Trials | Tests used to find out whether something works. | Play ▶ |
| Unborn | Not yet born. | Play ▶ |
| Undergo | To experience a process, change, or treatment. | Play ▶ |
| Validate | To show that something is sound or correct. | Play ▶ |
| Variable | Likely or able to change. | Play ▶ |
| Vary | To be different in different situations or cases. | Play ▶ |
| Verify | To check that something is true or accurate. | Play ▶ |
| Viable | Able to work successfully in practice. | Play ▶ |
| Victim | A person harmed by a crime, accident, or event. | Play ▶ |
| Vigorous | Full of strength and energy. | Play ▶ |
| Vital | Extremely important or necessary. | Play ▶ |
| Vulnerable | Easily hurt or harmed. | Play ▶ |
| Weaken | To make something less strong. | Play ▶ |
| Weight | How heavy someone or something is. | Play ▶ |
| Welfare | A person's health, happiness, and living conditions. | Play ▶ |
| Withdraw | To take money out of an account. | Play ▶ |