T e t a n u s

TEST 1

1. Infertility is the... to naturally conceive a child.

a) ability

b) possibility

c) inability

d) impossibility

e) responsibility

2. Absolute infertility is when there are... which make pregnancy impossible.

a) concomitant diseases

b) deep unreversable changes

c) severe disorders

d) significant liver insufficiency

e) various psychological factors

3. We know antibiotics... in treating inflammations.

a) to be effective

b) are effective

c) is efficient

d) was effective

e) will be efficient

4. The students watched the professor... the patient.

a) will examine

b) examines

c) inspects

d) was examining

e) to examine

5. What... absolute infertility... by?

a) is caused

b) cause

c) do cause

d) is causing

e) was causing

6. What... preventable measures of infertility?

a) is

b) do

c) did

d) are

e) does

7. The patient with acute phaiyngitis usually complaints of tension in the …

a) ear

b) nose

c) heart

d) uvula

e) throat

8. The patient... to fallow home treatment

a) to be allowed

b) allow

c) has been allowed

d) is allowed

e) allows

9. The patient is recommended to gargle his throat... a warm solution of sodium bicarborbonate.

a) about

b) with

c) above

d) over

e) to

10. When the patient... from high fever he needs more liquids than usual.

a) suffers

b) to suffer

c) has been suffered

d) is suffered

e) was suffered

Exercise 1. Practice the pronunciation:

Bacillus [bə ' siləs], Tetanus ['tetənəs], Moan [moun], Vague [veig],

Nightmare [nait meə], Delirious [di 'liriəs], Lockjaw [lokdʒ‹:],Trismus [trizməs], Height [hait], Drawing [dr‹:iŋ], Clenched [klentòt], Protruded [prə 'tru:did], Opisthotonus [ou 'pisqə…], Seizure ['si: ¯ə], Afebrile [ei 'fi:bril],

Ensue [in ' sju:], Lessening [lesəniŋ]

Exercise 2. Topic vocabulary:

Bacillus (pl. bacilli) бацилла, палочковидная бактерия

Vague неопределённый, нечёткий, неясный

Nightmare кошмарное сновидение

To become delirious становиться безумным, иступленным

Lockjaw тризм челюсти, столбняк

Trismus тризм (тоническое сокращение жевательных мышц)

Height of disease разгар (пик) болезни

To draw up вытягивать

Clenched крепко сжатый, стиснутый, скреплённый

Protruded выступивший вперёд, (lips) выпяченные губы

Opisthotonus опистотонус (тоническое сокращение мышц спины

и шеи с запрокидыванием головы и вытягиванием

конечностей)

Seizure приступ, пароксизм, припадок

Afebrile безлихорадочный

To ensue происходить, получаться в результате, следовать

To lessen уменьшать (ся)

Exercise 3. Read words paying attention to the rules of reading:

1. (c,s,t, before ia, ie, io [ ò ])

So cia l, suffi cie nt, remis sio n, ini tia l, pa tie nt, Rus sia n, commis sio n, artifi cia l, poten tia l, offi cia l, spe cia l, profes sio n, fa cia l, essen tia l, permis sio n, insuffi cie nt, mo tio n, defi cie ncy.

2. age as a suffix [œdʒ ]: village, cartilage, hemorrhage, bandage, language, usage, dosage, damage, lavage, carriage, marriage.

Exercise 4. Form words with the help of negative prefixes. Translate them into Russian:

Dis – like, function, connect, agree, locate, lodge, maturity, section, solvent.

Ir – regular, responsible, relevant, resistible, radiation, reversible, reducible.

Im – possible, practical, mobile, moral, balance, maturity, potency, purity.

Un – necessary, reliable, fortunately, consciousness, dress, infected, mixed.

Mal – formation, nutrition, occlusion,position, treatment, presentation, rotation.

Exercise 5. Read the words with the same root. State the part of speech and translate them in to Russian:

Face – facial, slow – slowly; connect – connection; pelvis – pelvic; compose – composition; rapid – rapidly; base – basic; recover – recovery; remove – removal; survive – survival; tender – tenderness, restless – restlessness; breath – breathing.

Exercise 6. Give Russian equivalents to the following English ones. Make up the sentences of your own.

On an average, powerful poison, to be unable to open the mouth, typical facial expression, difficulty in urination, in the majority of cases, to gain entrance into the body, painful spasms, to become affected, to draw up the angles of the mouth, to be tightly clenched, to be slightly protruded, to be accompanied by severe pain, to run a fever as high as, severity.

Exercise 7. Match medical terms with the proper definitions:

1. tetanus 2. tetany   3. toxin   4. urination   5. spasm   6. trismus

1. Spasm of the jaw muscles, keeping the jaw tightly closed. 2. An acute infectious disease, affecting the nervous system, caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani. 3. The periodic discharge of urine from the bladder through the urethra. 4. Spasm and twitching of the muscles, particularly those of the face, hands, and feet. 5. A poison produced by a living organism, especially by a bacterium. 6. A sustained involuntary muscular contraction, which may occur either as part of a generalized disorder, such as a spastic paralysis, or as a local response to an otherwise unconnected painful condition.

Exercise 8. Translate the following sentences. Pay attention to the sentences with construction: one (ones), that of (those of).

The condition of patient V. is worse than that of patient C.

The number of the vertebrae in the coccyx is less than the number of those in the beck.

The bones of the lower extremities are longer than those of the upper ones.

This lecture is more interesting than the one I attended last week.

The walls of the left atrium are thicker than those of the right.

Some muscles are more elastic than the other ones.

I will examine your patient and that of Dr. Ivanov.

The wards in the new hospital are better equipped than those in our old one.

Exercise 9. Read and translate the text:

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