Vocabulary

• care for: To want or desire a thing
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• consists of: Is made up or composed of.
• at once: Immediately; without delay
• count down: To say numbers in order from say 10 to 1
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• count on: To depend on someone
• on average: Typically; usually; based on an average calculation.
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• off of: From a position on something; down from.
• from birth: Since the time someone was born
• on top of that: In addition to something already mentioned; furthermore.
• in public: In a place where anyone can see or hear you.
• of interest: Relevant or important to someone or something.
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
• chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• description: Explanation of what something is like, looks like
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• approximately: Around; nearly; almost; about (a number)
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• decline: To bend towards the ground
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• direction: When someone tells people what to do
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• insurance: Protection against loss/injury/death you pay for
• interest: Best or most advantageous thing for someone
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• clinical: Concerning the treatment or observing patients
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• quiz: A game in which players answer questions on topics
• internal: Being or happening in the body
• leave: To go away from; depart
• treatment: Medicine or method to make someone healthier
• combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
• reduction: Act of making something smaller
• diagnose: To determine the cause of an illness or problem
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• coordination: When parts of your body work well together
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• public: Owned by the government
• specialty: Skill or a dish that a person, business is good at
• impairment: Damage leading to lower strength or quality
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• certification: Official or legal permission to do something
• predictable: Capable of being guessed before it happens
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• service: Work that a person does to assist others
• minimal: The smallest possible; least
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• internship: Period of time when a person works as an intern
• dual: (Of two similar things) existing/used side by side
• datum: Item of factual information
• reimbursement: Money paid for damages, losses or money spent etc.
• pediatric: Concerning the medical care of children
• residency: Training for a junior doctor in hospital
• occupational: Concerning your job or career
• inpatient: Patient who is being treated in the hospital
• outpatient: Patient treated at hospital without staying there
• genomic: Concerning the set of genetic material in a cell