a nerve cell which carries messages between your brain and other parts of your body
Habituation is the tendency of neurons to fire less and less in response to things that are constant.
2. diabetes
/'auva, laud/
n.
a disease in which there is too much sugar in the blood
He suffered from diabetes and gastric ulcers.
3. hypertension
/, harpa'tenfn/
n.
a medical condition in which your blood pressure is extremely high
Obesity correlates with increased risk for hypertension and stroke.
4. cholesterol
/ko'lestarpl/
n.
a substance in your blood that can cause heart disease if you have too much of it
Only the yolk contains cholesterol.
只有蛋黄含胆固醇。
5. medication
/, medr'kerfn/
n.
a medicine;
treatment with drugs or remedies
With medication , life at home goes on as usual.
6. consultation
/, konsl'tenfn/
n.
a meeting with a professional person, especially a doctor, for advice or treatment
A personal diet plan is devised after a consultation with a nutritionist.
7. statin
/stetn/
n.
子主题
Statin drugs lower cholesterol.
8. tetanus
/tet(o)nos/
n.
a serious ilness caused by bacteria that enter your body through cuts and wounds and make your muscles, especially your jaw, become stiff
I was vaccinated against tetanus.
9. booster
/bu:sta/
n.
a small quantity of a drug that increases the effect of one that was given before, so that sb.continues to be protected against a disease
Truck air brake valves, clutch booster, air dryer.
10. vaccine
/veksi:n/
n.
a substance which contains a weak form of the bacteria or virus that causes a disease and is used to protect
people from that disease
The search for a new vaccine will take priority over all other medical research.
11. prescription
/pr'skrupfn/
n.
a written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment
Nicola got her prescription for strep.
妮古拉拿了治疗链球菌性咽喉炎的处方药。
12. resident
'rezid(e)nt/
n.
a physician receiving specialized clinical training in a hospital
Local resident groups have united in opposition to the plan.
13. ancillary
æn'srlori/
n.
serving as a supplement
It is the only class that most users will ever need to look at; everything else is ancillary
14. trade-off
n.
an acceptable balance between
two opposing things
Analysis of Trade-off and Control of Engineering Project Management Objective System
工程项目管理目标系统的权衡与控制分析
15. paracetamol
,pæra'sitomol/
n.
Take two paracetamol and try to sleep.
16. tablet
/tæblot/
n.
a small round hard piece of
medicine to be taken orally
This kind/ sort/ type of tablet is soluble in water.
17. childproof
'tfanld, pru:f/
adj.
made safe for young children
We need to childproof this house and we're starting with those chairs
18. prognosis
/prog'nausis/
n
a prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease
The medical prognosis was bleak.
19. metabolism
/mo'tæbo, lrz(o)m/
n.
the chemical processes in your body that change food and drink into energy
The body's metabolism is slowed down by extreme cold.
20. recede
/r'si:d/
n.
move back or away from a
limit, point, or mark
The village was engulfed in a sea of mud left by the receding flood-water.
21. pathophysiology
/'pac0au, fizi'plodsil
n.
the functional changes associated with or resulting from disease or injury; the scientific study of such changes
Exploration of training the thinking ability of students during pathophysiology teaching
22. recondition
, riskon'difn/
vt.
restore to good
condition
The negative weight gains were found after the recondition test.
23. relapse
/rt'leps/
n.
the return of il health after
an apparent or partial recovery
The time of relapse was from three months to one year.
24. epidemiology
epudi:mioladil
n.
子主题
In fact, a recent study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that people who drank coffee had a lower risk of death over the course of 11 years compared with those who skipped joe altogether.
25. gastroenterologist
/'gestrov, ento'rpladsist/
n.
子主题
UCLA Gastroenterologist Emeran Mayer said this disease is not the only cause of chronic pain in the body.
26. hepatitis
/,hepo'taitIs/
n.
子主题
The doctor tested him for hepatitis.
27. bilirubin
, bnlr'ru:bin/
n.
子主题
A New Process of High Purity Bilirubin Production on A Large Scale
28. regimen
/'red3imon/
n.
a systematic plan for
therapy
Introduction to regimen Schools of Traditional Chinese medicine
29. aorto-coronary
/er, o:tau 'kpron(a)ri/
n.
子主题
A muscular spasm in thecoronaryartery can cause a heart attack.
30. bypass
/"bar pas/
n.
子主题
The filter system based bypass is called Internet Content Intelligent Control System
