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Chapter 7 Medicine
Medicine and Drugs Addictive Substances
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstinece (n.) | to go without something |
| confidential (adj.) | private, secret |
| crave (v.) | want something a lot |
| culinary (adj.) | related to cooking |
| epidemic (n.) | fast spreading disease/outbreak |
| inhalant (n.) | an item that you breath in/ inhale |
| negligible (adj.) | a tiny/very small amount |
| relapse (v.) | to go back to being addicted |
| rely on (v.) | depend on |
| transmission (n.) | to pass a disease form one person to another |
| adolescent (n.) | a person between childhood and adulthood |
| chronic (adj.) | severe and persistent-it is always there |
| cyclical (adj.) | to go in a cycle/to come round again/ to go up and down |
| detoxification (n.) | to take out toxic substances from your body |
| ingest (v.) | eat or swallow |
| prevalence (n.) | frequency/number |
| progressive (adj.) | increasing, developing |
| seizure (n.) | to take something by force. The drugs were seized by police. |
| sober (n.) | having no chemicals or drugs in the body |
| tolerance (n.) | resistance, the body becomes used to drugs |
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