Corona Virus Vocabulary
Coronavirus – any of a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of respiratory, gastrointestinal, and neurological diseases in humans and other animals.
Sentence- The similar hydrophobic desolvation free energies indicate that electrostatic interaction energies are very similar among the three coronavirus main proteinase dimers.
Covid 19 – a disease caused by a new strain of coronavirus. ‘CO’ stands for corona, ‘VI’ for virus, and ‘D’ for disease. Formerly, this disease was referred to as ‘2019 novel coronavirus’ or ‘2019-nCoV.’
Sentence- Covid -19 is upsurging day by day making condition
SARS – an infectious disease with symptoms including fever and cough and in some cases progressing to pneumonia and respiratory failure. It is caused by a coronavirus.
Sentence- The symptoms of SARS are high fever, dry cough, dyspnea and diarrhea.
Outbreak – a time when something suddenly begins, especially a disease or something else dangerous or unpleasant.
Sentence- Fears are growing of a cholera outbreak following the appearance of a number of cases in the city.
Epidemic– the appearance of a particular disease in a large number of people at the same time.
Sentence- Health officials have successfully confined the epidemic to the Tabatinga area.
Pandemic – existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants.
Sentence- It has backfired because those worst hit by the pandemic, black people, are paying the price.
Droplets– a small drop of liquid.
Sentence- The bubbles condense into droplets which attach to salt crystals and other particles in the atmosphere and eventually form clouds.
Asymptomatic – showing no symptoms of a particular disease.
Sentence – All patients were initially asymptomatic and remained so during follow-up.
Community spread – the process of an infectious illness spreading through a large group of people in a general way.
Sentence – Due to the community spread of corona virus nearly whole world was under lock down.
Contact tracing – the process of finding any other people that an infected person has met or had close contact with, usually in order to control the spread of an infectious disease.
Sentence – Contact tracing of all clinical suspect cases is being done and 305 households have been administered chemoprophylaxis.
ICU – intensive care unit: the part of a hospital the provides continuous treatment for patients who are seriously ill, very badly injured, or who have just had an operation.
Sentence – Trials are also needed among subgroups of ICU patients to define biochemically and clinically optimal doses of specific vitamins and minerals.
ICU – intensive care unit: the part of a hospital the provides continuous treatment for patients who are seriously ill, very badly injured, or who have just had an operation.
Sentence – Trials are also needed among subgroups of ICU patients to define biochemically and clinically optimal doses of specific vitamins and minerals.
Vulnerable – able to be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked.
Sentence – Babies are weak and vulnerable in the presence of huge shapes that they can only dimly perceive.
