Thursday, April 23, 2009

week 7 - Second Vocabulary Installment

Word: inventory
Meaning: a company's merchandise
Context: My mentor told me to check the inventory to investigate if the company brought the same furnitures they ordered.

Word: illness
Meaning: disease
Context: My mentor told me a hospital is a place where many illnesses get treated.

Word: manifestation
Meaning: demonstration, expression without words
Context: Whole working in the nursing floor, from my observations, I notice that certain allergies can result different manifestation on people.

Word: cluster
Meaning: a grouping of a number of similar things
Context: All the volunteers at Saints Vincent's are classified in a cluster department.

Word: liaison
Meaning: a channel for communication between groups.
Context: During the volunteers award ceremony, I heard my mentor giving praise at a very role model volunteer by telling her that she has been in a wonderful liaison for the hospital.

Word: monitoring
Meaning: the act of observing something and sometimes keeping a record.
Context: Saint Vincent offers a monitoring of patients with communicable diseases.

Word: cardiothoracic surgery
Meaning: the field of medicine involved in surgerical treatment of diseases affecting organs inside the threaux.
Context: At saint vincent's, there's cardiothoracic services offered in the special field of surery.

Word: epidemic
Meaning: new cases of a certain disease occur in a givin human population during a giving period.
Context: saint Vincent's have agencies that are in charge of epidemic significant events when ever it happens.

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