{"id":119160,"date":"2023-07-22T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T14:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/french-medical-terms\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:47:10","slug":"french-medical-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/french\/french-medical-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"140 French Medical Terms for Healthcare Workers and Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether you’re living in a French-speaking country or just visiting, you’re going to want to know some medical terminology.\u00a0Hopefully, you stay safe and healthy, but you never know when you might need to see a doctor or discuss an ailment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Plus, health issues and medical treatments are common in everyday conversations.\u00a0And if you work in the medical field with French-speaking patients, these words and phrases are crucial to do your job well.<\/p>\n

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Parts of the Body in French<\/h2>\n

Beyond describing any pain or issue you have with a certain body part, many of these words are sure to come in handy in day-to-day conversation. Check out this post for even more French body parts<\/a> and some French idioms involving body parts.<\/p>\n

For each noun in the table below, we’ve provided the grammatical gender (“f” for feminine, “m” for masculine) in parentheses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
French<\/th>English<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
amygdale <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>tonsil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bouche <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>mouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bras <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>arm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
cheville <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>ankle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
coeur <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>heart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
cou <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>neck<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
coude <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>elbow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
dents <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>teeth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
doigt <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>finger<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
dos <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>back<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00e9paule <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>shoulder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
estomac <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>stomach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
foie <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>liver<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
front <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>forehead<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
gencive <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>gums<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
genou <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>knee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
gorge <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>throat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
jambe <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>leg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
joue <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>cheek<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
narine <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>nostril<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
nez <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>nose<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
oeil <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)\/ yeux <\/a>\n <\/em> (m plural)<\/td>eye(s)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
oreille <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>ear<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
orteil <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>toe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
paupi\u00e8re <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>eyelid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
poitrine <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>chest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
pouce <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>thumb<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
poumon <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>lung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
r\u00e9gion lombaire <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>lumbar (lower back)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
rein <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>kidney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
t\u00eate <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>head<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ventre <\/a>\n <\/em> (m)<\/td>abdomen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vert\u00e8bre <\/a>\n <\/em> (f)<\/td>Vertebra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

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