Vocabulary

• in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
• shake up: To completely rethink or reorganize something
• check out
• also known as: Also called; alternatively named.
• consists of: Is made up or composed of.
• from birth: Since the time someone was born
• care for: To want or desire a thing
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• description: Explanation of what something is like, looks like
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• spot: A certain place or area
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• frustrating: To make annoyed because things don't go well
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• metabolic: Concerning the body's metabolism
• insurance: Protection against loss/injury/death you pay for
• surgery: Medical operation involving cutting into body
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• outbreak: Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc.
• internal: Being or happening in the body
• asthma: Lung illness causing difficulty in breathing
• diagnose: To determine the cause of an illness or problem
• compensation: (Money) given or received as payment for loss
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• arthritis: Diseases of the joints often with painful swelling
• adult: Person or animal that is fully grown
• specialty: Skill or a dish that a person, business is good at
• infectious: Capable of transmitting disease to others
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• onset: When something, e.g. an illness, starts; beginning
• excellent: Extremely good
• medical: Of or relating to physical health or medicine
• predictable: Capable of being guessed before it happens
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• variable: Having the ability to change or vary
• elderly: Being very old
• flexibility: The quality of being able to be bent or stretched
• balance: Instrument for weighing things
• historic: (Of past event) having an effect on future; famous
• rank: To rate or class things
• minimal: The smallest possible; least
• link: Any one of the rings that are part of a chain
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• earn: To deserve something because you worked for it
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• hormonal: Concerning or caused by hormones in the body
• parasitic: Living on larger plant/animal and dependent on it
• hereditary: Passing from parents to children
• preventive: Done to stop something bad happening
• datum: Item of factual information
• care: To feel interest, concern, or worry
• health: (Person, company) being in a good condition; well
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• osteoporosis: Medical condition that weakens bones, causing them to break easily
• number: Symbols such as 1, 2, 56, 793
• reimbursement: Money paid for damages, losses or money spent etc.
• pay: To give money for goods or work done
• bacterial: Concerning or caused by bacteria
• pediatric: Concerning the medical care of children
• fungal: Concerning fungi
• residency: Training for a junior doctor in hospital
• certify: To approve someone as authorized, valid
• lupus: Constellation in the southern hemisphere near Centaurus
• genomic: Concerning the set of genetic material in a cell