- [uncountable] a serious illness affecting one or both lungs that makes breathing difficult 肺炎
- [uncountable, countable] the cause of a disease or medical condition 病因 - [uncountable] the scientific study of the causes of disease 病因学
- Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome 中东呼吸道综合征
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 严重急性呼吸道综合征
- (plural obituaries) an article about somebody’s life and achievements, that is printed in a newspaper soon after they have died
[uncountable, countable]
- (formal) the act of sending or bringing somebody back to their own country
- (business) the act of sending money or profits back to your own country
- (formal) to find out the true or correct information about something
- collate something to collect information together from different sources in order to examine and compare it
- collate something to collect pieces of paper or the pages of a book, etc. and arrange them in the correct order
- if a part of your body is sore, it is painful, and often red, especially because of infection or because a muscle has been used too much
- [not before noun] sore (at somebody/about something) (informal, especially North American English) upset and angry, especially because you have been treated unfairly
[uncountable] (medical)
- pain in a muscle
adjective
- (of people) used as a polite word for ‘old’
- the elderly noun [plural] people who are old
[uncountable]
- the fact of being frequently away from work or school, especially without good reasons
[uncountable] (British English)
- the practice of spending more time at your work than you need to according to your contract, in order to appear to be working hard
[uncountable]
- (medical) the fact of having a particular disease; the number of people who have a particular disease
- a strong interest in sad or unpleasant things, especially disease or death; the fact of being about these things
[uncountable]
- the degree to which a disease or poison is dangerous or harmful and quick to have an effect
- (formal) the fact of showing strong negative and bitter feelings
type of plant/animal/disease
- [countable] a particular type of plant or animal, or of a disease caused by bacteria, etc.
[uncountable]
- (in a hospital) the process of deciding how seriously ill or injured a person is, so that the most serious cases can be treated first
- a thing that causes disease
- to prevent something bad from affecting you for a period of time; to delay something
- a piece of soft material used by a doctor, nurse, etc. for cleaning wounds or taking a sample from somebody’s body for testing
- an act of taking a sample from somebody’s body, with a swab
[uncountable] (formal)
- the act of keeping something under control so that it cannot spread in a harmful way
- the act of keeping another country’s power within limits so that it does not become too powerful
- abet somebody to help or encourage somebody to do something wrong
- (formal) a group of people or a system that protects a way of life or a belief when it seems that it may disappear
- a place that military forces are defending
- (informal) anxious and nervous
- (often in compounds) a seat with legs but with nothing to support your back or arms
- (medical) a piece of solid waste from your body
(plural autopsies)
- an official examination of a dead body by a specially trained doctor in order to discover the cause of death
[countable, uncountable] (formal)
- predisposition (to/towards something) | predisposition (to do something) a condition that makes somebody/something likely to behave in a particular way or to suffer from a particular disease
(chemistry)
- a substance used to cause a chemical reaction, especially in order to find out if another substance is present
(British English also defaecation) [uncountable] (formal)
- the act of getting rid of solid waste from your body through your bowels
- [countable, usually plural] the tube along which food passes after it has been through the stomach, especially the end where waste is collected before it is passed out of the body
(formal)
- harmful and damaging
- a group of tents, huts, etc. where people live together, usually for only a short period of time
adverb (law or formal)
- of the thing mentioned
[uncountable, countable] (formal)
- the reduction of something by a large amount so that there is not enough left
(British English) (North American English hypoxemia) [uncountable] (medical)
- a lower than normal amount of oxygen in the blood
[uncountable] (finance)
- property or something valuable that you promise to give to somebody if you cannot pay back money that you borrow