2013年2月19日 星期二

situation update, -speak, disease, make history

 

American granny Sharron Thornton, 60, was blind for nine years after contracting Stevens-Johnsons syndrome, a rare disease that scarred her cornea. But doctors in Miami, Florida, made history after extracting her canine and drilling an optical cylinder lens into it.
60歲的美國阿嬤雪倫.松頓在染患史提芬—約漢森症候群後失明9年,這種罕見疾病損害她的角膜。然而佛州邁阿密的醫師在取出她的犬齒,並在牙上鑽入一個圓柱狀光學晶體後,創造歷史。

make history
Do something memorable or spectacular enough to influence the course of history, as in That first space flight made history. [Mid-1800s]

DNA Test Becoming Routine Medical Tool

As the cost of genetic sequencing plunges, patients like Lillian Bosley, 13, who has a rare orthopedic condition, are getting the test to help find disease-causing mutations. 



Although Google intended to tackle major problems like climate change, global poverty and the spread of pandemic diseases, it declared that DotOrg would not be “conventional” — a four-letter word in Google-speak. For starters, the organization would operate in part as a business, thus freeing itself from various constraints placed on nonprofit groups.


-speak
suff.
Language characteristic of: doctorspeak; cop-speak.

[From (NEW)SPEAK.]


Situation Update

Map of flu activity in the U.S. for week ending September 12, 2009. Click to view the full Situation Update.Each week CDC analyzes information about influenza disease activity in the United States and publishes findings of key flu indicators in a report called FluView. During the week of September 6-12, 2009, a review of the key indictors found that influenza activity continued to increase in the United States compared to the prior weeks.
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situation
n.
    1. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
    2. The place in which something is situated; a location.
  1. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
  2. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs. See synonyms at state.
  3. A critical, problematic, or striking set of circumstances.
  4. A position of employment; a post.
situational sit'u·a'tion·al adj.
situationally sit'u·a'tion·al·ly adv.

━━ n. 位置; 場所; 形勢; 状況; 立場, 境遇; 地位; 職; (劇の)きわどい場面.
sit・u・a・tion・al ━━ a. 状況[場面]の.
situational leadership 【経営】状況に応じた[臨機応変の]指導性.
sit・u・a・tion・al・ly ━━ ad. 状況に応じて.
situation comedy 状況喜劇.
Situations Vacant 〔英〕 (the 〜) (新聞の)求人広告.

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