all-clear
/ˈɔːl klˈɪɹ/
nouna signal (usually a siren) that danger is over
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1. She was first diagnosed with a tumor in 2016, but thanks to a fundraising effort, was flown to India for treatment and soon got the all-clear.
2. Hours later, they finally received the all-clear signal for the second dam.
3. Also back on January 14, the World Health Organization, which was not getting adequate access on the ground from the Chinese government in terms of assessing the cases that they had at that point, the WHO publicly gave the Chinese an all-clear in saying that there was no human-to-human transmission in China, in Wuhan.
4. Medics couldn't find any major injury and soon gave him the all-clear.
5. But that's not an all-clear to overdo it: most of the benefits are linked to moderate consumption, and that stays the same level no matter how you're feeling.
bedrest
/bˈɛdɹɛst/
nounconfinement of a patent to bed as in the treatment of an illness
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1. But over the years, study after study has found that bedrest has no effect on premature birth, clearly putting the rationale for bedrest to rest.
2. The devoted mom had been on bedrest after she was diagnosed with partial placenta abruption , a condition which causes bleeding in the mother, and blocks oxygen flow to the baby.
3. With Duncan, I needed a lot of bedrest during this time, and we've been navigating that this time around as well.
4. Hopefully we'll get a clear idea of when she can be off bedrest.
5. And finally, we learned of the exciting day of someone on bedrest.
better
/ˈbɛtɝ/
adjectiverecovered from a physical or mental health problem completely or compared to the past
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1. And bettering our lives.
2. Oh, oh, oh, we'll do bettering the world.
3. Narrator: AND SECOND IMPRESSIONS ARE EVEN BETTER.
4. - Better the camera than you buddy.
5. - Better the bat than my hand.
care
/ˈkɛɹ/
nounthe action of looking after someone or providing treatment for them
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1. Take care.
2. - Take care.
3. My parents took care of college.
4. - Take care!
5. Take care.
to care for
/kˈɛɹ fɔːɹ/
verbto provide treatment for or look after a person or an animal that is sick or injured
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1. Care for your health.
2. Care for a dip in my hot tub?
3. Care for.
4. Healthy habit number six: care for your teeth.
5. Care for a loanski?
to bounce back
/bˈaʊns bˈæk/
verbto regain health after an illness or become successful again after facing difficulties
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1. They bounced back in May, June and July.
2. But during the warmer interglacial periods, forests bounced back.
3. The dough is bouncing back.
4. Hopefully bounce back up.
5. I bounce back pretty well.
contact tracing
/kˈɑːntækt tɹˈeɪsɪŋ/
nounthe process of trying to identify individuals who might have had close contact with an infected individual, particularly in order to treat or quarantine them
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1. It's contact tracing.
2. This system is also capable of contact tracing.
3. A lot of contact tracing is leg work.
4. What is contact tracing?
5. Contact tracing, is it required?
to convalesce
/ˌkɑnvəˈɫɛs/
verbto spend time in order to recover from an illness and regain one's strength
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1. While convalescing, Lauri learned that he had been made a Knight of the Cross of Mannerheim, the highest military decoration in the Finnish armed forces.
2. So badly injured that he needed over a year to convalesce.
3. They held a party to celebrate Paul’s birth while Catherine was still convalescing.
4. While he convalesced, he visited with soldiers in the hospital, boosting morale.
5. He was evacuated to England again to convalesce.
to deep-clean
/dˈiːpklˈiːn/
verbto clean something carefully and thoroughly to prevent the spread of infection and germs
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1. To lure panic-stricken travelers back, U.S. carriers have implemented new rules, deep-cleaned planes, and waived some fees.
2. I've used a couple face masks before and a bunch of them don't deep-clean as well as they say they do.
3. Yes, germs are all around the seats and they're rarely deep-cleaned.
4. Shampooing services are expensive, so hotels save money by deep-cleaning the carpets less often.
5. and it wasn't that long ago that I deep-cleaned the fridge.
deep-cleaning
/dˈiːpklˈiːnɪŋ/
nounthe process of cleaning all parts of something thoroughly and with extreme care in order to prevent the spread of infection
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to get over
/ɡɛt ˈoʊvɚ/
verbto recover from an unpleasant or unhappy experience, particularly an illness
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1. Trump got over everybody else.
2. "Get over here!"
3. I got over so many things.
4. I got over so many things -
5. - Just get over.
to heal
/ˈhiɫ/
verbto become healthy again
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1. Three, heal a critical trait.
2. Heal a critical trait.
3. - Heal your kids.
4. - Heal your skids.
5. [Narrator] Can an apology actually heal our wounds?
healing
/ˈhiɫɪŋ/
nounthe process of making or becoming healthy once more
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1. Music can also aid healing.
2. Healing has to take priority.
3. Healing also takes time.
4. And trauma requires healing.
5. Healing happens in layers.
herd immunity
/hˈɜːd ɪmjˈuːnɪɾi/
nounprotection from a disease that occurs when a large portion of a population becomes immune to an infectious disease through vaccination or prior illness
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1. This phenomenon is known as herd immunity.
2. This phenomenon is known as herd immunity.
3. Many countries are working their way towards herd immunity now.
4. Herd immunity is a proven fact for many illnesses.
5. So the herd immunity idea is downright dangerous.
to immunize
/ˈɪmjuˌnaɪz/
verbto protect an animal or a person from a disease by vaccination
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1. So far, nearly 63 percent of U.S. adults are at least partially immunized.
2. Now the San Francisco Zoo has immunized 124 mountain yellow-legged frogs.
3. Millions of volunteers immunized children around the world against polio.
4. Millions of volunteers immunized children around the world against polio.
5. Not every child can be immunized.
informed consent
/ɪnfˈɔːɹmd kənsˈɛnt/
nounpermission given by a patient to receive a particular treatment, informed of all the possible consequences and risks
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1. And one of those is informed consent.
2. Informed consent includes risks, benefits and alternatives.
3. It's informed consent.
4. Informed consent is the very bedrock of our understanding of democracy.
5. Democracy depends on informed consent.
inoculation
/ˌɪˌnɑkjəˈɫeɪʃən/
nounthe process of boosting the immunity system of a person or animal against a disease by vaccination
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1. And what is inoculation mean?
2. Our lead tonight: The nation's inoculation campaign against COVID-19 is gaining ground.
3. What is inoculation?
4. Inoculation was also a partially flawed procedure.
5. The inoculations turned out to be tainted.
to inoculate
/ˌɪˈnɑkjəˌɫeɪt/
verbto boost the immunity system of a person or animal against a disease by vaccination
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1. Then the bags are inoculated with a liquid culture of mycelium.
2. And she inoculated them both with E. coli.
3. Two months later, Jenner inoculated the boy again, this time with matter from a fresh smallpox lesion.
4. So, he intentionally inoculated his wife and two children with fluid that he got from one of his sick cows.
5. And basically we experimentally inoculate people with the common cold virus.
curable
/ˈkjʊɹəbəɫ/
adjective(of an illness or disease) capable of being cured
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1. It's Coronavirus curable?
2. By the way, many children's illnesses are curable today.
3. It's very curable.
4. Basal cell carcinoma is a curable type of cancer.
5. Squamous cell carcinoma is also curable.
convalescence
/ˌkɑnvəˈɫɛsəns/
nouna period of time spent for gradual recovery of health and strength after an illness, injury, or a medical operation
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1. Rather than give up, she spent her convalescence reading Voltaire and plotting her return to court.
2. During his convalescence he had an argument with a local servant and pelted him with stones.
3. Jack endured nearly two dozen surgeries and extensive therapy and convalescence.
4. Jack endured nearly two dozen surgeries and extensive therapy and convalescence.
5. One feature of the Spanish Lady was the distinctive length of convalescence.
remission
/ɹiˈmɪʃən/
nouna period during which a patient's condition improves and the symptoms seem less severe
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1. They go into remission.
2. He is in remission right now.
3. The remissions now strengthened to four and then eight months.
4. That patient is still in remission.
5. Put this baby right into remission.
recuperative
/ɹɪˈkupɝətɪv/
adjectivepromoting one's health and strength after a period of injury or illness
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1. So let's say you're driving through a mountainous area and you're up at the top of the mountain and you start coasting down using the recuperative braking, you could end up with more charge in your battery at the bottom of the hill than you had at the top of the hill because it charged up the whole way down, using gravity and inertia to put all that energy back into the battery.
2. And she's recognizing, Alice Walker is, in this recuperative work, dealing with Zora Neale Hurston, that this new voice, or in Zora Neale Hurston's case, an older voice, but a new way of listening to this voice.
recuperation
/ɹɪˌkupɝˈeɪʃən/
nounthe process or fact of regaining one's health or strength after a period of illness or injury
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1. During his month’s recuperation Ernest and Agnes explored the sights of Milan together.
2. This has significant effects on sleep quality and recuperation.
3. There are also different levels of recuperation.
4. And if I decelerate, now, you can see the recuperation.
5. The principle behind this is called recuperation.
recovery
/ɹɪˈkəvɝi/, /ɹɪˈkəvɹi/
nounthe process of becoming healthy again after an injury or disease
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1. Recovery begins.
2. Is recovery a choice?
3. One of the most overlooked aspects of people's exercise routines is recovery.
4. Recovery takes time.
5. Recovery is endless.
to recover
/ɹɪˈkəvɝ/
verbto regain complete health after a period of sickness or injury
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1. Companies like American Manganese can recover nearly 100% of valuable metals.
2. The injured lioness is slowly recovering her strength.
3. Recover the pot.
4. The weather companies, the forecasters only recover 30 percent of them.
5. The weather companies, the forecasters, only recover 30% of them.
CT
/ˈkɔɹt/
nouna medical test that uses special X-ray technology to create detailed pictures of the inside of a person's body
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1. Then CT scanners and computer modeling came along.
2. Watch your mouth, CT!
3. What types of medical students apply to CT surgery?
4. CT colonography otherwise known as virtual colonoscopy every five years.
5. The North Korean doctors hand over their CT scans of Warmbier’s brain to Dr. Flueckiger.