Portuguese health and emergency vocabulary: 341 words
Doctor, pharmacy, the body and emergency phrases for when it matters (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese). This page lists 40 of them with their Portuguese translations, then lets you practise the full set in either direction with spaced repetition.
English to Portuguese: the first 40 words
| English | Portuguese | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| help | ajuda | |
| emergency | emergência | |
| doctor | médico | |
| nurse | enfermeiro | |
| hospital | hospital | |
| pharmacy | farmácia | |
| ambulance | ambulância | |
| medicine | medicamento | A medicinal drug or treatment, not the field of study. |
| pain | dor | |
| fever | febre | |
| headache | dor de cabeça | |
| stomachache | dor de barriga | |
| cough | tosse | |
| cold | constipação | The illness, not the temperature. |
| flu | gripe | |
| allergy | alergia | |
| injury | ferimento | |
| blood | sangue | |
| broken bone | osso partido | |
| burn | queimadura | A skin injury from heat, not a fire or verb. |
| prescription | receita | A doctor's written order for medicine, not a recipe or general instruction. |
| pill | comprimido | |
| bandage | ligadura | |
| vaccine | vacina | |
| health | saúde | |
| sick | doente | |
| healthy | saudável | |
| tired | cansado | |
| dizzy | tonto | Sensation of spinning or disorientation, not foolish. |
| body | corpo | |
| head | cabeça | |
| face | rosto | |
| eye | olho | |
| ear | orelha | |
| nose | nariz | |
| mouth | boca | |
| tooth | dente | |
| throat | garganta | |
| neck | pescoço | |
| shoulder | ombro |
301 more words in the full “Health & Emergencies” library, each aligned across seven languages and scheduled for you by spaced repetition. Add it to your account and start drilling English to Portuguese in one click.
What to watch out for in Portuguese
- 144 of these 341 words are near-identical in English and Portuguese (42%) —
hospital,náusea,acne. Those are free; the value of drilling is in the rest. - Accents count. Answers are graded accent-sensitively, so you need
áâãàçéêíó— LinguaSwap shows a one-tap keypad for them while you type. - 113 words carry a usage note in the full library, for the cases where a direct translation would mislead you.
Practise Portuguese health and emergency vocabulary
Words come back just before you would forget them, and every language direction is tracked separately.