Vocabulary

• of age: Having reached the legal age of adulthood.
• recommend: To advise or suggest that someone do something
• therapy: Treatment to help cure an illness
• effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
• cholesterol: Substance in the body that may cause heart disease
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• trial: Hearing and judgment of a case in court
• significantly: In a way that is important or noticeable
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• cardiovascular: Concerning the heart and vessels of the body
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• stroke: When blood cannot get to brain, causing damage
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• require: To demand that someone does something
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• examine: (Medical) to test to find out what is wrong
• major: High-ranking officer in the army
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• treatment: Medicine or method to make someone healthier
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• placebo: Harmless pill for comparison in trial of new drug
• assign: To give someone a particular job to do
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• acid: Sour substance that reacts with metals e.g. lemon
• blind: Unable to see; with eyes that cannot see
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• event: Any social gathering; occasion; planned activity
• impairment: Damage leading to lower strength or quality
• daily: Happening every day
• density: Degree to which an area is filled or covered
• conclude: To finish or cause to finish; end
• oral: Concerning the mouth
• group: Two or more musicians who play music together
• adverse: Negative or harmful
• intolerant: Narrow-minded and will not accept other opinions
• elevate: To make something higher
• efficacy: Ability to produce a desired outcome
• full: Containing all the parts; complete
• coronary: Concerning the heart
• prevention: Act of stopping something bad from happening
• death: When someone dies; the end of life
• age: To keep food, wine for a long time to improve it
• incidence: The rate that something happens
• guideline: General rule or instruction how to do a thing
• median: Being in the middle or average
• secondary: Being of less importance than something else
• composite: Made of more than one different part
• unable: Not being able to do something
• intolerance: Refusing to accept the ways of others
• unwilling: Not wanting to do
• intolerable: Unbearable; so that you cannot suffer any more
• renal: Of the kidneys or diseases of the kidneys
• gout: Painful inflammation of the big toe and foot
• randomize: To arrange in a random order
• mg: One thousandth (1/1000) of a gram