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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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opioid | n: substances that have an effect similar to opium, such as morphine, used in medicines to treat severe pain, but some people take them illegally for pleasure and become addicted | |
prescribe | v: (of a doctor) to advise and order the use of particular medicine or treatment for someone, especially in writing; to issue commands or orders for something | |
painkiller | n: medicine used to relieve physical pain | |
rib | n: each of a series of curved bones that are connected to the spine and surround the chest; (adjective) subject to laughter or ridicule | |
surgery | n: medical treatment of injuries or diseases involving an incision with instruments and often removing or replacing some parts of the body; the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | |
misconception | n: a belief or an idea that is wrong because it has been based on faulty thinking, understanding, or hypothesis | |
medication | n: a drug or other form of medicine that treats, prevents, or alleviates the symptoms of the disease | |
inflammation | n: a physical condition in which a part of the body becomes red, painful, hot, and often swollen, especially as a reaction to infection or injury | |
ibuprofen | n: a drug used to reduce pain, fever, and inflammation | |
perspective | n: a confident attitude toward something; a particular style of thinking about something | |
stub | n: a short piece of something, especially a cigarette, pencil, etc., that is left after the main part has been used | |
recover | v: to return to a former condition, health, mind, or strength | |
dam | n: a wall constructed over a river to block the flow of water, mainly used to generate energy | |
chemical | adj: relating to or connected with chemistry; | |
receptor | n: an organ having nerve endings that respond to stimulation such as heat or cold and makes the body react in a particular way | |
pathway | n: a track that constitutes or serves as a path; an approach or a way of doing something | |
acetaminophen | n: a drug used to relieve mild or chronic pain and high temperature | |
steroid | n: any of several organic compounds that are produced in the body and have important physiological effects and affect the development and growth of sex organs | |
aspirin | n: a drug used to reduce pain, fever, and inflammation | |
naproxen | n: a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug used in the treatment of headaches and arthritis | |
bind | v: to tie or fasten someone or something tightly with rope, string, etc. so that they cannot move or are held together strongly | |
locate | v: to specify or determine the exact position of someone or something | |
trigger | v: to make something happen suddenly; to cause something such as a device, machine, etc. to function | |
dopamine | n: a chemical substance produced by nerve cells as a neurotransmitter; as a drug, it is used to treat shock and hypotension | |
hormone | n: a chemical substance made by organs that encourages or influences the development, growth, sex, etc., of an animal and is carried around the body in the blood | |
associate | v: to mentally connect someone or something with someone or something else | |
addition | n: the act or process of adding something to something else; the process of adding numbers | |
relief | n: a feeling of happiness and relaxation that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | |
relax | v: to become or cause someone to become less active or tense and calmer | |
euphoric | adj: an extreme feeling of well-being or excitement | |
cognition | n: the psychological process of perception and learning and reasoning; the mental action or process by which knowledge and understanding are developed in the mind | |
adapt | v: to make fit for or change to suit a new purpose or environment | |
symptom | n: any sensation or change in body or mind that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease | |
withdrawal | n: the act of taking money out of an account; the act of ceasing to participate in an activity and moving or taking something away or back | |
uncomfortable | adj: providing or feeling physical discomfort or slight pain | |
discomfort | n: a feeling of being uncomfortable physically or mentally or being embarrassed; a slight pain | |
confuse | v: to mistake one thing for another; to make somebody hard to understand | |
norm | n: something that is regarded as usual, typical, or standard | |
intentionally | adv: in a planned or intended way | |
paradox | n: a statement, situation, or person that has two opposite facts or features and therefore seems impossible, is difficult to understand, or is strange; | |
worsen | v: to become or make something worse | |
addiction | n: the inability to stop using or doing something as a habit, especially something harmful | |
nuance | n: a subtle or slight degree of difference in appearance, meaning, sound, someone’s feeling, etc. | |
physically | adv: in a way related to a person’s body or appearance rather than their mind | |
contribute | v: to give something, especially money or goods, to provide or achieve something together with other people | |
therapy | n: the act of caring for someone through medication, remedial training, etc. | |
educated | adj: having received a high standard of education | |
acute | adj: extremely sharp or severe | |
explore | v: to travel to or penetrate an area or a country to learn about it; to thoroughly examine a subject or a possibility to learn more about it | |
alternative | n: one of two or more available possibilities or choice | |
taper | v: to become or cause something to become gradually narrower at one end | |
naloxone | n: a medication used to reverse the effects of opioids (= morphine or a drug that resembles morphine), commonly used to counter decreased breathing in opioid overdose | |
reverse | v: to change something’s direction, order, position, decision, etc., to the opposite one; (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | |
overdose | n: excessive and dangerous ingestion or application of a drug |