WEEKLY VOCABULARY!

1. Word / Phrase: Occupational Therapy

Meaning: a form of therapy in which patients are encouraged to engage in vocational tasks or expressive activities, as art or dance, usually in a social setting

Context: The department i've been placed for my internship in a hospital is Occupational Therapy.

2. Word / Phrase: Department

Meaning: a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.

Context: The hospital is divided into many different departments such as OT, PT, mother-baby unit or Bio-Med for example.

3. Word / Phrase: Therapist

Meaning: a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.

Context: It is therapists job to follow the patient on a wheelchair.

4. Word / Phrase: Hip replacement

Meaning: A total hip replacement (THR) - also called a hip arthroplasty- is a surgical procedure that re-forms the hip joint.

Context: My grandfather just went through a hip replacemnt surgery.

6. Word / Phrase: Disability

Meaning: the state or condition of being disabled

Context: Many new born babies are born with different forms of dissabilities if during the pregnancy period their mother smoke or abuse alcohol drinking.