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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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medical | adj: relating to the treatment of illness or injuries; relating to the practice of medicine | |
asylum | n: protection granted to someone who has left their home country as a political refugee | |
delusion | n: a false belief or impression that is firmly held despite evidence to the contrary | |
autopsy | n: a medical examination performed on a dead body to determine the cause of death or identify any underlying medical conditions or injuries; a postmortem examination or necropsy (in animals) | |
plaque | n: a flat, often rectangular, piece of metal, wood, or other material, inscribed or carved with commemorative text or designs and used as a decoration or award; a soft, sticky film of bacteria that coats teeth and can cause tooth decay | |
tangle | n: a confused mass of something twisted together | |
brain | n: the organ inside the head that is responsible for one’s movement, thought, memory, and feeling | |
striking | adj: attractive and distinctive enough to draw notice; exceedingly appealing, frequently in an odd manner | |
Alzheimer | n: a neurodegenerative disease that causes memory loss, cognitive decline, and behavioral issues; is the most common cause of dementia in older adults | |
deter | v: to discourage or prevent someone from doing something | |
patient | n: a person who is receiving medical treatment, care, or attention from a healthcare professional, such as a doctor, nurse, or therapist; a personal quality or characteristic | |
diagnose | v: to determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a careful analysis | |
disease | n: a disorder or illness that affects the body or mind, often characterized by specific symptoms or abnormal functioning of organs or systems | |
medicinal | adj: of or relating to the treatment or cure of disease | |
advance | v: to go or move forward; to develop in a positive way | |
greatly | adv: to an extraordinary extent or degree; very much | |
discovery | n: the act or process of finding information, a place, or an object, or learning about something that was previously not known | |
antibiotic | n: a substance or drug that kills or slows down the growth of bacteria | |
vaccine | n: a substance that is put into the body and protects them from disease by causing them to produce antibodies (= proteins that attack harmful bacteria, viruses, etc.) | |
infection | n: a condition in which pathogenic microorganisms or viruses have entered the body | |
cancer | n: abnormal growth of cells that can invade and destroy surrounding tissues and organs; a disease characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells | |
retrovirus | n: a type of RNA virus that uses the enzyme reverse transcriptase to convert its RNA into DNA, which then inserts itself into the host cell’s genome, which can cause a variety of diseases in humans and animals, including HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) | |
statin | n: a type of drug used to lower cholesterol levels in the blood, typically by inhibiting an enzyme involved in cholesterol production | |
essentially | adv: relating to the essential features or concepts of anything | |
progression | n: the act or process of changing to the next stage or phase or moving forward | |
odds | n: the degree or probability that a particular thing will or will not happen | |
suffer | v: to experience pain, distress, or hardship; to undergo or endure something painful or unpleasant | |
statistics | n: the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data | |
twofold | adj: consisting of two parts or aspects; doubled in size, quantity, or degree | |
boom | n: a sudden increase in economic activity, or a sudden happening that brings good fortune; a deep, loud, and prolonged sound | |
relative | adj: considered and evaluated through comparison with something else | |
invest | v: to put money, effort, time, etc. into something to make a profit or achieve a result | |
government | n: the group of people with authority to control a country or state | |
stem | n: the central part of something from which other parts can develop or grow; the part of a word common to all its inflected variants; (verb) to grow out of, have roots in, or originate in | |
fundamental | adj: forming an essential base or core from which everything else develops or is affected | |
awareness | n: the fact or state of knowing something exists and is important | |
mistakenly | adv: in a mistaken or incorrect way; wrongly | |
confuse | v: to mistake one thing for another; to make somebody hard to understand | |
senile | adj: showing signs of old age, specifically mental decline or deterioration associated with advanced age | |
norm | n: something that is regarded as usual, typical, or standard | |
inevitable | adj: certain to happen and unavoidable | |
damage | v: to harm or cause injury to something or someone, often resulting in decreased value or functionality; to impair or negatively affect something, such as a reputation or relationship; (noun) harm or injury that is caused to a person, thing, or entity | |
trigger | v: to make something happen suddenly; to cause something such as a device, machine, etc. to function | |
severe | adj: extremely serious or bad in feeling, manner, or strict and harsh; extremely strong or vigorous | |
protein | n: a molecule made up of a long chain of amino acids, which is essential for the structure and function of the body’s tissues | |
molecule | n: a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds | |
normally | adv: usually; under normal conditions | |
elaborate | adj: containing a lot of carefully prepared and organized or many complicated and detailed parts | |
origami | n: the Japanese art or practice of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures | |
spot | n: a particular location or place; a small round or roundish area, differing in color or feels from the surface around it | |
sticky | adj: made of or covered with an adhesive substance; hot or warm and humid | |
stick | v: to put something, usually a sharp object, into something; to restrict yourself to doing or using one certain thing and not change; (noun) a thin piece of wood or other material | |
clump | n: a small group of bushes, trees, flowers, people, etc. | |
eventually | adv: finally, particularly after a long time or a lot of struggle, complications, and so on | |
malfunction | v: to fail to operate or work properly; to break down or stop functioning as expected or intended; (noun) a failure or defect in the way a machine, system, or device is supposed to operate | |
identify | v: to recognize someone or something and say or prove who or what they are | |
complexity | n: the state or quality of being complicated or intricate and difficult to understand | |
defuse | v: to reduce or eliminate the tension, anger, or hostility in a situation, especially a potentially explosive one, by calming, soothing, or pacifying those involved | |
bomb | n: a weapon that explodes and is used to kill or injure people or to cause damage to something | |
diverse | adj: including numerous categories of individuals or entities; various | |
medic | n: a person trained to provide medical care, especially in an emergency | |
biology | n: the scientific study of life and the natural processes of living things | |
genetics | n: the branch of biology that studies genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms | |
chemistry | n: the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions | |
physicist | n: a scientist who specializes in the field of physics | |
engineer | n: a person whose job is designing, building, or maintaining something such as machines, structures, or software | |
mathematics | n: the science dealing with the logic of quantities, shapes, spaces, and arrangement | |
critic | n: someone who expresses opinions about the quality of books, music, etc. | |
process | n: a series of actions or operations performed to achieve a particular outcome or goal; a systematic procedure or approach used to accomplish a specific task or objective; a method of treating milk to make it suitable for consumption or use in other dairy products | |
specifically | adv: only associated with or meant for one thing | |
lab | n: a workplace for the conduct of scientific research; a laboratory | |
worm | n: a long, thin creature with a soft and long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and a lack of eyes | |
lifespan | n: the length of time for which a person, animal lives, or thing exists | |
initial | adj: of or happening at the beginning; (noun) the first letter of a word, especially a person’s name | |
achieve | v: to successfully complete a task or goal, often through hard work, perseverance, and dedication; to attain or accomplish something that one has set out to do | |
pharmaceutical | adj: relating to the production and selling of the medical drugs | |
industrious | adj: hardworking, diligent, and persistent in effort | |
essential | adj: indispensable; fundamental | |
victim | n: a person who has been harmed, injured, or otherwise negatively affected by a particular action, circumstance, or event | |
advocate | n: a person who supports or suggests an idea, development, or way of doing something | |
genetic | adj: of or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) or the science of genes |