Вопрос № 933076 - Английский язык

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The first 3 months of 1_______ are important because during this period the 2_______ organs, like brain, heart, kidneys, limbs, eyes and ears are being formed. Avoid any medicine during this period. Some medicines can be harmful to the growing baby and so no 3_______, particularly pills for sickness, headaches and anxiety should be taken without the advice of the 4_______.

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There is a constant 1_______ for new drugs. This is because there is a lot we don’t know about human biology, there are still many illnesses we cannot cure, and new illnesses appear all the time while existing medicines lose their effectiveness. New 2_______ are tested on animals, but because animals’ bodies work differently from ours, if a drug works on a caged rat, it does not mean that it will do the same foe a human being. The only way to really know about a new medicine is to test it on people in a 3_______ trial. This is done by first giving it to healthy people to see if it is safe, and then giving it to sick people 4_______ if it works.

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Unlike other diseases, there is no objective way to make a 1_______ of mental illness, and very often a diagnosis is based on observations of behaviour and scores in psychological tests. The dividing lines between madness, 2_______, and normality are in fact rarely clear, though strange behaviour and impulses are usually associated with mental illness if suffering is involved.
‘Mental illness’ is a broad label for 3_______ that include
– 4_______ instability
– behavioural disorders
– cognitive dysfunction

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What is the age-related presbyopia treated with?
Glasses are prescribed when light rays do not focus correctly on the retina. If they focus in front of the retina, the result is short-sightedness, also called myopia. This is treated by a concave lens. If light rays focus behind the retina, the result is long-sightedness, also called presbyopia. This is treated with a convex lens. There is laser surgery available now for these problems, though it is not able to treat age-related presbyopia which most people develop in their mid 40s because by that time the lens has lost too much flexibility.

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How is the most important symptom that leads to a diagnosis called?
Symptoms are physical conditions that indicate the illness, and are usually described as either strong mild, or weak. Many illnesses have symptoms in common, such as nausea, high blood pressure, etc., whereas other symptoms are rarer and specific to a narrow range of illnesses. The most important symptom that leads to a diagnosis is called a cardinal symptom, and the symptoms that cause a patient to seek medical help are referred to as presenting symptoms.

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How much had the woman gained in weight?
A 50-year-old housewife, who had been well until four months previously, complained of tiredness and malaise. She had gained 9 kg in weight in the year before she presented to her GP although she denied eating more than usual. She was constipated and she noticed that her hair had started to fall out.