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to clear up

if a rash or a cold clears up, it goes away

to come out in a rash/spots

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

to wake up from a coma

to come round

to regain consciousness after you have fainted

to come down with sth = to get sick

to become ill with sth

to pass out, faint

to faint, to lose consciousness

to pull through

to survive and recover from a serious illness

to put sb on sth

: if a doctor puts you on a particular course of medicine, he prescribes that medicine for you to take

to put your back out

to hurt your back, often because you have tried to lift sth very heavy

to shake sth off

to get rid of sth

to take a tooth out

to remove a tooth

to wear off

to stop having an effect

a blinding, splitting, thumpling headache

a very bad headache

a bug

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

to feel 100% well, after having previously felt ill

a highly infectious disease

a disease that is very easily passed from one person to another

to suffer a nervous breakdown

to become extremely depressed and unableto cope

to have poor eyesight

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

to be very ill and probably in hospital as a result

shooting pains

sudden, sharp pains which do not last for a long time but which do repeat themselves

stinking cold

a very bad cold

to have a touch of flu

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

to feel slightly ill

to have an upset stomach/to have stomach upset:

not be able to keep anything in your stomach because you have probably eaten or drunk sth bad