Partie 3 : Sciences et techniques
Chapitre 23 : Anatomy and diseases
Anatomy, page 52
the skeleton |
the backbone, spine |
a rib |
the hip |
a limb |
a sinew |
a joint |
the wrist |
the kneecap |
the ankle |
the heel |
the skull |
the forehead |
the eye socket |
the chin |
the jawbone |
the gums |
the windpipe |
the spleen |
the liver |
a kidney |
blood |
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Traumas and diseases, page 52
a graze |
a blister |
a bruise |
a sprain |
to limp, to have a limp |
to be crippled |
a germ |
the measles |
the mumps |
the plague |
rabies |
TB |
HIV positive |
contagious |
to contaminate |
to spread |
unprotected sex |
to have a temperature |
heart failure |
to have a stroke |
to be in agony |
She suffers from backache: she should not wear those stilettos.
He was placed in a medically induced coma after suffering a serious head injury while skiing.
Food for thought, page 53
A visit to a traditional market in the region assails the senses with a huge variety of forest game – mammal, bird and reptile carcasses smoked and partitioned – and the smell of singed animal hair filling the air.
But an outbreak of the deadly Ebola fever in Guinea has rekindled concerns about the health risks of age-old African hunting and eating traditions that bring humans into close contact with wild forest animals.
The World Health Organization says about 86 suspected cases of Ebola have been reported, with 62 deaths so far. Guinean authorities put the death toll at 63.
Experts who have studied the Ebola virus from its discovery in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then Zaire, say its suspected origin – what they call the reservoir host – is forest bats. Links have also been made to the carcasses of freshly slaughtered animals consumed as bushmeat.