vil
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Dear teachers,
Yesterday I read a passage of a medical book, where I noticed some discussing problems. In the beginning was the following expression “ She’d not been feeling herself for a few days and I thought she had a respiratory tract infection”.
Later there was the following expression “ She has feeling very unwell and yesterday she developed a rash on her arms, the palms of her hands and the soles of her feet. She also got a very sore mouth.”
If the expression “not feel oneself” has a meaning “you feel slightly ill” as in:
I haven’t been feeling myself since I stopped taking the medicine”
And we can understand that as “ indisposed”, “unwell”, “poorly”, “seedy”. “out of sorts”, “be ailing”, “not feel quite well”, “not feel up to the mark “ then what is the meaning of the expression “She has feeling very unwell”.
The second question is regarding to the word “heartburn”. Why there is the root “heart” and the meaning of the whole word “acid dyspepsia” does not concern the heart but the gastro-intestinal tract?
Thank you in advance for your efforts.
Regards.
V.
Yesterday I read a passage of a medical book, where I noticed some discussing problems. In the beginning was the following expression “ She’d not been feeling herself for a few days and I thought she had a respiratory tract infection”.
Later there was the following expression “ She has feeling very unwell and yesterday she developed a rash on her arms, the palms of her hands and the soles of her feet. She also got a very sore mouth.”
If the expression “not feel oneself” has a meaning “you feel slightly ill” as in:
I haven’t been feeling myself since I stopped taking the medicine”
And we can understand that as “ indisposed”, “unwell”, “poorly”, “seedy”. “out of sorts”, “be ailing”, “not feel quite well”, “not feel up to the mark “ then what is the meaning of the expression “She has feeling very unwell”.
The second question is regarding to the word “heartburn”. Why there is the root “heart” and the meaning of the whole word “acid dyspepsia” does not concern the heart but the gastro-intestinal tract?
Thank you in advance for your efforts.
Regards.
V.