2015年12月22日 星期二

perform, diagnose, underdiagnose, paranoia, likening smoking to performing oral sex, oropharyngeal , pharynx, epiglottis


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In 2009, Tony Simotes, 62, learned that he had a tumor in his throat, which was diagnosed as Stage 3 oropharyngeal cancer. Mr. Simotes had never been a smoker or a drinker. He and his wife, Lucy, were relieved at first to learn the cancer was HPV-related, because that raised the odds that he could be cured.
2009年,62歲的托尼·西莫特斯(Tony Simotes)得知在他的喉嚨內有一個腫瘤,被診斷為口咽喉癌三期。西莫特斯既不抽煙也不喝酒。他和妻子露西(Lucy)在得知癌症與HPV有關時首先感到輕鬆了些,因為這提高了他可能被治癒的幾率。

In France, Sex Sells — Even in Anti-Smoking Ads

By Bruce Crumley / Paris
A French anti-smoking group has launched a new advertising campaign that has shocked the nation by likening smoking among youths to performing oral sex

Yangon: Tour Through a City of Fear
Fifty years ago, Yangon was a bright spot in Asia. But what a Journal reporter saw during a recent visit was a city in shambles -- a melancholy outpost of crumbling colonial architecture, economic neglect and deepening paranoia.

A sobering thought for the holidays: Chronic heavy drinking can cause insidious damage to the brain, even in people who never seem intoxicated or obviously addicted.

Diagnoses of alcohol-related cognitive decline and alcohol-associated…
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  • :  diagnose
  • to recognize (a disease, illness, etc.) by examining someone
  • : to recognize a disease, illness, etc., in (someone)
  • : to find the cause of (a problem)

Definition of underdiagnose

  1. transitive verb
  2. :  to diagnose (a condition or disease) less often than it is actually present

un·der·di·ag·no·sis play\-ˌdī-ig-ˈnō-səs, -əg-\ noun

paranoia
noun
1 [C or U] an extreme and unreasonable feeling that other people do not like you or are going to harm or criticize you:
There's a lot of paranoia about crime at the moment.

2 [U] SPECIALIZED Someone who has paranoia has unreasonable false beliefs as a part of another mental illness, for example schizophrenia.

paranoid 
adjective
1 feeling extremely anxious and worried because you believe that other people do not like you or are trying to harm you:
He started feeling paranoid and was convinced his boss was going to fire him.

2 SPECIALIZED suffering from a mental illness in which you believe that other people are trying to harm you:
He was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
paranoid delusions

paranoiac 
noun [C]
someone who is paranoid

o·ro·phar·ynx  (ôr-frngks, r-)
n. pl. o·ro·pha·ryn·ges (-f-rnjz) or o·ro·phar·ynx·es
The part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the epiglottis.

[Latin s, r-, mouth; see os1 + pharynx.]

oro·pha·rynge·al (-f-rnj-l, -frn-jl) adj.

perform



Pronunciation: /pərˈfôrm/

verb

[with object]

Derivatives


performability


Pronunciation: /-ˌfôrməˈbilitē/
noun

performable

adjective

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French parfourmer, alteration (by association with forme 'form') of Old French parfournir, from par 'through, to completion' + fournir 'furnish, provide'.

epiglottis


 
音節
èpi • glóttis
epiglottisの変化形
epiglottises (複数形)
[名](複〜・es, -ti・des 〔-tidìz〕)《解剖学》喉(こう)頭蓋(がい). ⇒LARYNX
-tal
[形]

pharynx


 
音節
phar • ynx
発音
fǽriŋks
[名](複phar・yn・ges 〔fríndiz〕, 〜・es)《解剖学》咽頭(いんとう).

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