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Health & Body — C1 English Lesson

📅 2026-10-04📊 C1 Advanced📚 10 new words🎧 daily podcast

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palliate /PAL-ee-ayt/

verb

to ease pain or symptoms without curing the illness

"Morphine was given to palliate her pain, though it could not cure the disease."

prognosis /prog-NOH-sis/

noun

a doctor's prediction about the likely course of an illness

"The prognosis for patients diagnosed early has improved dramatically."

debilitating /dih-BIL-ih-tay-ting/

adjective

causing serious weakness that makes normal life very hard

"His migraines were so debilitating that he often missed weeks of work."

placebo /pluh-SEE-boh/

noun

a harmless treatment that works because the patient believes in it

"In the trial, patients who received the placebo still reported less pain."

pathogenesis /path-oh-JEN-uh-sis/

noun

the biological process by which a disease develops

"Scientists spent a decade unraveling the pathogenesis of the virus."

sedentary /SED-en-teh-ree/

adjective

involving sitting and very little physical activity

"A sedentary lifestyle is now considered a major risk factor for heart disease."

malnutrition /mal-noo-TRISH-un/

noun

poor health caused by not getting enough nutritious food

"Malnutrition in early childhood can permanently impair brain development."

resuscitate /ree-SUS-ih-tayt/

verb

to bring someone back to life or consciousness

"The paramedics managed to resuscitate the patient after three minutes of CPR."

homeostasis /hoh-mee-oh-STAY-sis/

noun

the body's ability to keep its internal conditions stable

"Sweating is the body's way of restoring homeostasis during exercise."

iatrogenic /eye-at-roh-JEN-ik/

adjective

caused by medical treatment itself

"The infection turned out to be iatrogenic, traced to contaminated surgical tools."

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📝Grammar: 5B: Past and present habits and states (used to)

English draws a sharp line between habits that belong to the past and habits of the present. **used to + infinitive** marks a habit or state that held true for a period in the past but is no longer true. The negative is **didn't use to** (or the more formal **never used to**). Beware the classic trap: **used to** has no present tense. There is no **use to** for present habits. For present habits, pair the **present simple** with an adverb of frequency like *usually* or *normally*. **Used to** and the **past simple** often overlap for repeated actions, but only the **past simple** survives ex

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