III. Independent Work: Cardiovascular Diseases

Exercise 1. Read the words and word combinations from the text.

complication [knmpli'keijh] ускладнення

coronary insufficiency - коронарна недостатність

considerable headway - значний успіх/прогрес

cause of hypertension - причина гіпертонії

to accompany [з'клтрзпі] супроводжувати

stage-by-stage - поетапний

emergency [i'mE.'dpnsi] aid - швидка допомога

to administer - надавати (допомогу)

ambulance - машина швидкої допомоги

rehabilitation [,ri:(h)3bili'teijn] відновлення працездатності; реабілітація recuperation - відновлення здоров'я

Exercise 2. Read and translate the text.

Cardiovascular Diseases

At present scientists consider that much attention must be paid to the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. They are, first of all, arterial hypertension, then atherosclerosis, particularly of the coronary arteries, whose gravest complication is infarction of the myocardium and lastly, cardiac insufficiency caused by various diseases of the heart.

Mass scale epidemiological check-ups of population show that people contract coronary insufficiency and hypertension from 40 to 60 years of age. At the same time, nowadays one frequently meets coronary insufficiency and infarction of the myocardium in young people of 20-30 years of age. Hypertension, especially symptomatic hypertension, which is a symptom of diseases of some organs or systems, for example, of the kidneys or endocrine glands, may set in at an even earlier age than that.

Considerable headway has been registered lately in the diagnostics of symptomatic hypertension. Methods of diagnostics have been improved to the extent when it is possible to discover symptomatic hypertensions which 10-15 years ago could be found only in 5-6 per cent of patients - in 23 per cent of the patients suffering from arterial hypertension. This is of great importance for the successful combating of arterial hypertension, because the knowledge of the cause of hypertension makes it easier to prescribe its successful treatment.

Definite success has also been achieved in the treatment of atherosclerosis, coronary insufficiency and infarction of the myocardium which are closely related to it.

Exercise 3. Make up a summary of the given text using the following expressions.

1) To be of great importance; at present; scientists consider; cardiovascular diseases;

2. to give gravest complications; arterial hypertension and atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries;

3. check-ups of population; mass scale; epidemiological; to show that; not only old people; to have coronary insufficiency and infarction of the myocardium; but young people of 20-30 years of age;

4. In the treatment of some cardiovascular diseases; to have been achieved; definite success.

Exercise 4. Translate the sentences, name the form the predicate verb.

1. The borders of the heart are dilated.

2. This patient was taken to the operation yesterday.

3. The vital capacity of the lungs will be determined during examination.

4. They were examined by Prof. Bilov.

Exercise 5. Make up 5 sentences with different functions of participles in them.

UNIT THIRTEEN

I	Speaking	Lymphatic System and Lymphoid Tissue
II	Grammar	Objective Participle Construction
III	Independent Work	Disorders of Lymphatic System and Lymphoid Tissue