Vocabulary

• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• check out
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• deal with
• have to: Must do
• the leading cause: The most significant or primary reason for something.
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• spot on: Exactly right; perfectly accurate.
• in advance: Ahead of time; before something happens
• also known as: Also called; alternatively named.
• on the brain: To be constantly thinking about someone or something; to be obsessed with someone or something.
• no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
• to date: Up to the present time; until now.
• look back: To think about past events
• trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
• description: Explanation of what something is like, looks like
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• aesthetic: Concerning the sense of artistic beauty
• spot: A certain place or area
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• interpret: To express so that others understand it
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
• integrate: To combine together; make into one thing
• align: To arrange (e.g. objects) in line with one another
• consistently: In a manner that is the same almost every time
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• competition: Fighting against others to win something
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• require: To demand that someone does something
• norm: Standard or regular way of doing something
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• independent: Making your own decisions; acting by yourself
• surgery: Medical operation involving cutting into body
• route: Way to get from one place to another place; path
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• internal: Being or happening in the body
• radiation: Energy transmitted as rays, waves or particles
• plastic: Stiff but usually flexible man-made material
• vary: To change something and make it different
• additional: Further or added
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• compensation: (Money) given or received as payment for loss
• breast: Fleshy part of a woman's body for feeding babies
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• artery: Tubes that carry blood from the heart to the body
• unpredictable: Difficult to guess about (the future)
• specialty: Skill or a dish that a person, business is good at
• paycheck: Check issued in payment of wages or salary
• breakdown: When normal activity or behavior stops
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• minimal: The smallest possible; least
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• list: To lean to one side, like a boat or ship
• spinal: Concerning the spine or nerves in your back
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• heart: A feeling of care for others; compassion
• diagnostic: Concerning finding out the cause of a problem
• bypass: To go around something; avoid
• datum: Item of factual information
• coronary: Concerning the heart
• hypertension: Condition marked by abnormally high blood pressure
• pediatric: Concerning the medical care of children
• residency: Training for a junior doctor in hospital
• vascular: Of tubes through which fluids flow in body/plant
• minimally: The smallest or least degree
• thoracic: Concerning the chest or thorax
• cardiology: Branch of medicine dealing with heart disease
• aorta: Large artery that carries blood from the heart