Unit 3: COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAM, WOMAN CURED OF HIV, PATHENON TEMPLE TO BE RETURNED

Vocabulary terms and definitions from the provided lecture slide.

entrance exam

an exam that you take to be accepted into a school, etc.

marathon

an activity that takes a long time and makes you very tired

test taker

a person who take a test

freshman

a student in the first year of high school, college, or university

standstill

a condition in which all movement or activity has stopped

make or break

bring great success or complete failure

designated

chosen for particular purpose

underway

happening now

cured of sth

made healthy again after an illness (sth)

AIDS

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: a serious disease caused by a virus that destroys the body's natural protection from infection

mixed-race

having parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents of different races

bone marrow

soft tissue containing a lot of fat in the centre of a bone

acute

quickly becoming very severe

acute myeloid leukemia

a cancer of the myeloid (relating to bone marrow) line of blood cells, characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal cells that build up in the bone marrow and blood and interfere with normal blood cell production (bệnh bạch cầu tuỳ cấp tính - AML)

stem cell transplant

A stem cell or bone marrow transplant replaces damaged blood cells with healthy ones (cấy ghép tế bào gốc)

be in remission

a period of time when an illness is less severe

antiretroviral

used to treat AIDS (kháng AIDS)

umbilical cord

the tube that connects a baby to its mother before birth and carries oxygen and food to it (dây rốn)

resistant

not accepting of sth (dề kháng)