balloon, to balloon, door-to-balloon, angioplasty. copyrighted material still slips through.

A.I. companies said they had established guardrails that could prevent their A.I. systems from producing material that violates copyright. But Mr. Marcus said that despite those strategies, copyrighted material still slips through.

A balloon has caused a new crisis in Sino-American relations.

China claimed that the main purpose of the inflatable was meteorological research, and that it simply wandered off course. The Pentagon—and the world—wasn’t buying it.

America called it a surveillance balloon and shot it down over the Atlantic on Saturday. A planned visit to Beijing by Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, has been cancelled—at least for now.

With luck, the balloon incident will not escalate. But something else like it could. To prevent that, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping need to find better ways to communicate. Read why their countries’ rivalry needs guardrails to contain small incidents: https://econ.trib.al/sUhdbkG

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2016年10月26日下午11:02 · 

今天讀Wikipedia的King Hu (胡金銓)條。
在YouTube上看一部他1975年導的影片：效果不佳，聊勝於無。
晚上想起他因Angioplasty手術引起之併發症過世。不記得當年在報上讀的報導的細節，對我而言，一道光就這樣消失了。直到去年後者前年，讀到日本朋友作的訪問稿，才知道點他的家庭和成長過程。
晚上想應該查一下Angioplasty是什麼？Wikipedia 英文最精彩之一的是醫學，因為美國有老師鼓勵學生寫，算分數，當然還有其他我不知道的姻緣、措施，成就此知識寶庫。中文部分就簡化多了。
"血管再成形術（Angioplasty），又名血管成形術、血管擴張手術，泛指為血管進行擴張的醫學手術，通常用以治療動脈硬化。目前最廣泛進行的血管再成形術，為針對心臟冠狀動脈的冠狀動脈再成形術。"

angioplasty

 noun

an·​gio·​plas·​ty | \ ˈan-jē-ə-ˌpla-stē  \

plural angioplasties

Definition of angioplasty

: surgical repair or recanalization of a blood vesselespecially : BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY

Examples of angioplasty in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In April, Larry suffered angina and underwent an angioplasty.— Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, "Larry King’s Estranged Wife Shawn Says She Was ‘Blindsided’ by Divorce Filing: 'It Hurt'," 17 Sep. 2019Such risks range from a heart attack and coronary artery surgery to angina and angioplasty.— Fox News, "Man who lost wife in 9/11 recalls fight to help survivors and victims in her honor," 11 Sep. 2019

balloon

verb [ I ]

UK 

 /bəˈluːn/ US 

 /bəˈluːn/

balloon verb [I] (INCREASE)

 

to quickly increase in size, weight, or importance:

Medical costs are likely to balloon for families as life spans increase.

The rumours soon ballooned into a full-blown scandal.

 

to get bigger and rounder, usually by filling with air:

balloon
noun [C]
1 a small, very thin rubber bag that you blow air into or fill with a light gas until it is round in shape, used for decoration at parties or as a children's toy:
We tied balloons and streamers to the ceiling ready for the party.

2 (ALSO hot-air balloon) a very large balloon that is filled with hot air or gas and can carry people in a basket (= container made of straw) hanging under it:
People first flew in a balloon in 1783.

3 a speech bubble

balloonist
noun [C]
a person who takes part in the sport of travelling by balloon:
He's a keen balloonist.

balloon
verb [I]
1 to get bigger and rounder:
I ballooned when I became pregnant with my second baby.

2 to quickly increase in size, weight or importance:
The rumours soon ballooned into a full-grown scandal.






when or before the balloon goes up informal when (or before) the action or trouble starts: we've got to get our man out of there before the balloon goes up.

1. Medicine. A sac that is inserted into a body cavity or tube and distended with air or gas for therapeutic purposes, such as angioplasty (血管成型術).{醫} 氣(球) 囊

譬如說 病人從進病院到冠動脈 ~ 擴張的時間（door-to-balloon time). (病院到着から冠動脈バルーン拡張までの時間（door-to-balloon time；来院からバルーン処置までの ...)


飛利浦醫療事業主管在本地報紙說法，並未清楚說明什麼是door-to-balloon
，所以我查一下：

美國McNamara等對美國國家心肌梗死註冊庫(NRMI) 的資料資料進行分析後發現,急診室至首次球囊擴張時間(door-to-balloon times)與所有ST段抬高急性心梗(STEMI)患者的院內.......

New Program Help Reduce Door-to-Balloon Time 在過去的12年中，入院90分鐘內接受球囊擴張血管成形術的 STEMI患者數量增加近1倍，從34%增加到現在的近 65%。.......