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

By GINA KOLATA 2:44 PM ET

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

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. 1. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
   2. The place in which something is situated; a location.
2. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
3. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs. See synonyms at state.
4. A critical, problematic, or striking set of circumstances.
5. 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.