Science & Medicine — Set 2: In Context flashcards
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Ines barely drank anything on the twelve-hour flight, and by the time she landed, a dry mouth and dark yellow urine pointed to mild ______.dehydrationBody & Health
Taking in too little fluid, shown by dry mouth and dark urine, is dehydration. Jet lag, a circadian problem, would show up as poor sleep, not thirst. -
A ______ can run from the base of the spine to the big toe, a single cell up to about a meter long carrying signals to the foot.neuronBody & Health
One cell carrying signals is a neuron. An artery also runs down the leg, but it is a vessel built of many cells, and it carries blood, not signals. -
Park rangers warn campers never to feed a raccoon, however tame it seems, since a single bite can be enough to ______ rabies.transmitDisease & Infection
A bite that passes rabies from a raccoon to a person transmits it. Inoculate means vaccinating someone, or seeding a material with microbes so they can multiply there; its object is a person, a material or the microbe, and rabies is a disease. -
Once doctors agreed that Rosalind had only months to live, her family chose ______ care over another round of treatment, putting her comfort ahead of any hope of a cure.hospiceDiagnosis & Treatment
Care near the end of life that aims at comfort, not cure, is hospice care. Therapeutic care aims to treat the illness, and the family has just turned down more treatment. -
In the city's disaster drill, medics tagged each volunteer "patient" red, yellow or green, using ______ to decide who rode in the first ambulance.triageDiagnosis & Treatment
Setting the order of care so that whoever needs help most urgently goes first is triage. A diagnosis names each person's illness or injury, and screening looks people over to catch a problem; neither ranks who goes first. -
Engineers coated the hospital's door handles with silver particles a few billionths of a meter wide, a use of ______ that helps kill germs.nanotechnologyResearch & Technology
Engineering on the scale of a few billionths of a meter, as with these silver particles, is nanotechnology. Biotechnology puts living cells or genes to work; silver particles are neither. -
Trained dogs sniff out the truffle, a ______ prized by chefs that grows underground on tree roots, trading minerals with the trees for sugar.fungusGenes & Life
A truffle is a fungus, absorbing its food rather than making it. A parasite would harm the trees, but this one trades with them; a microbe is too small to see, and organism would need "an." -
The slick coating on many nonstick pans is a ______: thousands of identical small units linked into long, slippery chains.polymerMatter & Energy
A material built from small repeating units linked into long chains is a polymer. A molecule is one group of bonded atoms, not a whole coating made of many. -
When the sea suddenly drew back from the beach after a strong offshore quake, the lifeguards knew a ______ could follow and led everyone uphill to safety.tsunamiEarth & Climate
When an undersea quake sends out giant waves, they form a tsunami, and the sea drawing back is its warning sign. The epicenter is the point where a line drawn straight up from the quake's starting point meets the land or seafloor, not what follows. -
Her horoscope app claims the planets shape her mood, but in her ______ class she learned to measure how far those planets actually are from Earth.astronomySpace
The science that studies planets and stars is astronomy. The horoscope is astrology, the belief the clue contrasts with; the cosmos is the universe, not a class.
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