2024年2月23日 星期五

rankle, serology, serological, common room




Race and global health experts argue describing COVID-19 as a "Chinese" virus exacerbates xenophobia amid the rapidly unfolding outbreak while Chinese officials remain rankled by President Trump's repeated use of the phrase.

Why No Safe Room to Run To? Cost and Plains Culture

By JOHN SCHWARTZ
In states like Oklahoma and Missouri, tornadoes are a seasonal threat, but government regulation and the expense of shelters rankle.
Ex-US diplomat rankles Taiwan with defense remarks
Businessweek
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The former top American diplomat in Taiwan has said that the island's declining military budgets have left it vulnerable to Chinese attack and made it easier for mainland spies to penetrate its armed forces, remarks that the ...

Finally, a Spray That Gets You Instantly Drunk for Just a Few Seconds
By SAMANTHA GROSSMAN
Sometimes, getting drunk is just too much work. Thank goodness someone has finally invented a product that allows you to sit back, spray some liquid into your mouth and bam! — instant drunken stupor.


CW's Rush to Web Rankles Stations

The CW has moved more aggressively than many other networks to put all its shows on the Web. It is walking a fine line, trying to get bigger online while not alienating the TV stations that pay to broadcast the network.
White House Rankles Wall Street With 'Enterprise Value' Tax The tax plan for President Obama's jobs bill has a provision that would tax the profits from the sale of an investment-management partnership at ordinary income rates.

Thursday, July 28, 2011 - The Prudent Man by Terry Ponick
Bam is commonly used as an onomatopoeia for a sound, mostly that of an impact or collision.



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The Two Words That Rankle Every Parent: 'I'm Bored'




德國專家的推測是,人體在感染新冠病毒後,至少在這一波流行期間--也或許在更長時間裡,對病毒是具有免疫力的





Serology - Wikipedia




Serology is the scientific study of serum and other body fluids. In practice, the term usually refers to the diagnostic identification of antibodies in the serum. Such antibodies are typically formed in response to an infection (against a given ... 血清學(serology)的診斷原為研究血清反應的一門醫學分支,如今則多用來觀察患者的血清以判斷、分析相應的疾病。血清檢查是醫學上常用的一種檢測手段,除了可以診斷細菌病毒外還可以診斷癌症如鼻咽癌的診斷。


serological はまだ Cambridge Dictionary に含まれていません。ご協力ください。

Estimation of effective reproduction numbers for infectious diseases using serological survey data.
The use of serological markers of infection adds another dimension to the surveillance of meningococcal disease.
In the absence of a serological 'gold standard', the search for improvements in diagnostic accuracy continues.
Serological studies were uninformative and attempts to propagate the parasite by subinoculating hamsters and a rhesus monkey failed.


Definition of rankle
verb


[no object]
  • 1(of a comment or fact) cause continuing annoyance or resentment:the casual manner of his dismissal still rankles
  • [with object] annoy or irritate (someone):Lisa was rankled by his assertion
  • 2 archaic (of a wound or sore) continue to be painful; fester: the wound is but skinned over and rankles still at the bottom

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