COVID. English Vocabulary
Let's learn some spring vocabulary! List of words: coronavirus a type of virus that can cause pneumonia and other diseases in humans and animals COVID-19 a disease caused by a coronavirus that was first reported in 2019 and became a pandemic diagnose to say exactly what an illness or the cause of a problem is diagnosis the act of discovering or identifying the exact cause of an illness or a problem disease an illness affecting humans, animals or plants, often caused by infection droplet a small drop of a liquid epidemic a large number of cases of a particular disease or medical condition happening at the same time in a particular community infect to make a disease or an illness spread to a person, an animal or a plant infected affected by harmful bacteria, a virus, etc. infection the act or process of causing or getting a disease infectious an infectious disease can be passed easily from one person to another, especially through air or water lockdown an official order to control the movement of people or vehicles because of a dangerous situation mask something that you wear over your face to hide it, or to frighten or entertain other people PCR test a molecular test that analyzes your upper respiratory specimen, looking for genetic material of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. quarantine a period of time when an animal or a person that has or may have a disease is kept away from others in order to prevent the disease from spreading vaccine a substance that is put into the blood and that protects the body from a disease vax short for vaccine: a substance put into a person's body to prevent them getting a disease virus a living thing, too small to be seen without a microscope, that causes disease in people, animals and plants
Let's learn some spring vocabulary! List of words: coronavirus a type of virus that can cause pneumonia and other diseases in humans and animals COVID-19 a disease caused by a coronavirus that was first reported in 2019 and became a pandemic diagnose to say exactly what an illness or the cause of a problem is diagnosis the act of discovering or identifying the exact cause of an illness or a problem disease an illness affecting humans, animals or plants, often caused by infection droplet a small drop of a liquid epidemic a large number of cases of a particular disease or medical condition happening at the same time in a particular community infect to make a disease or an illness spread to a person, an animal or a plant infected affected by harmful bacteria, a virus, etc. infection the act or process of causing or getting a disease infectious an infectious disease can be passed easily from one person to another, especially through air or water lockdown an official order to control the movement of people or vehicles because of a dangerous situation mask something that you wear over your face to hide it, or to frighten or entertain other people PCR test a molecular test that analyzes your upper respiratory specimen, looking for genetic material of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. quarantine a period of time when an animal or a person that has or may have a disease is kept away from others in order to prevent the disease from spreading vaccine a substance that is put into the blood and that protects the body from a disease vax short for vaccine: a substance put into a person's body to prevent them getting a disease virus a living thing, too small to be seen without a microscope, that causes disease in people, animals and plants