詞匯
resuscitation
n.when someone or something is brought back to life or consciousness:
The patient suffered a cardiac arrest and died, despite an attempt at resuscitation.
cardiopulmonary resuscitation 心肺復(fù)蘇
reimbursement
If you receive reimbursement for money that you have spent, you get your money back, for example because the money should have been paid by someone else. (FORMAL)
She is demanding reimbursement for medical and other expenses...
mammogram
n.a mammogram is a test used to check whether women have breast cancer, using x-rays.
telemedicine
n.the use of telecommunications technology to provide, enhance, or expedite health care services, as by accessing off-site databases, linking clinics or physicians' offices to central hospitals, or transmitting x-rays or other diagnostic images for examination at another site.
Doctors can use telemedicine to help them identify diseases.
predictive
adj.You use predictive to describe something such as a test, science, or theory that is concerned with determining what will happen in the future. (FORMAL)
...the predictive branch of economics.
predictive diagnostics
wearable
adj.wearable clothes are practical, comfortable, and suitable for ordinary people to wear, rather than being very unusual or extreme.
It's fashionable but wearable, and it's easy to look after.
wearable sensors
a (whole) host of people/things
a large number of people or things
A host of showbusiness celebrities have pledged their support.
manifestation
A manifestation of something is one of the different ways in which it can appear. (FORMAL)
Different animals in the colony had different manifestations of the disease...
expenditure
n.expenditure of something such as time or energy is the using of that thing for a particular purpose.
The financial rewards justified the expenditure of effort.
sift
If you sift through something such as evidence, you examine it thoroughly.
Police officers have continued to sift through the wreckage following yesterday's bomb attack...
automated
adj.using computers and machines to do a job, rather than people
a highly automated factory
The production process is now fully automated.
pharmaceutical
adj.pharmaceuticalmeans connected with the industrial production of medicine.
...a Swiss pharmaceutical company...
handsome
adj.a handsome amount of money is large or generous amount.
He managed to make a handsome profit out of the deal.
give rise to
If something gives rise to an event or situation, it causes that event or situation to happen.
Low levels of choline in the body can give rise to high blood-pressure...
deride
If you deride someone or something, you say that they are stupid or have no value. (FORMAL)
Opposition MPs derided the Government's response to the crisis...=ridicule
ultrasound
n.ultrasound is sound waves which travel at such a high frequency that they cannot be heard by humans. Ultrasound is used in medicine to get pictures of the inside of people's bodies.
I had an ultrasound scan to see how the pregnancy was progressing.
concussion
n.If you suffer concussion after a blow to your head, you lose consciousness or feel sick or confused.
She fell off a horse and suffered a concussion.
contraceptive pill
A contraceptive method or device is a method or a device which a woman uses to prevent herself from becoming pregnant.
It was at that time she started taking the contraceptive pill.
a array of
An array of objects is a collection of them that is displayed or arranged in a particular way.
We visited the local markets and saw wonderful arrays of fruit and vegetables.
sedentary
n. someone who has a sedentary lifestyle or job sits down a lot of the time and does not take much exercise.
Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle has been linked with an increased risk of heart disease.
cavalier
If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation.
The Editor takes a cavalier attitude to the concept of fact checking.
