Tuesday, April 14, 2009

STIFF Chapter 5: Vocabulary Builder

1.) Injury Analyst (Page 113) - a career which integrates incident and injury related medical information.

2.) Cognizant (Page 114)- having cognizance; aware

3.) Fuselage (Page 114) - the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.

4.) Euphemistic (Page 117) - the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.

5.) Fragmented (Page 117)- reduced to fragments; existing or functioning as though broken into separate parts; disorganized; disunities

6.) Tran section (Page 117) - to cut across; dissect transversely.

7.) Chemical Burns (Page 118)- Chemicals that touch skin can cause a limited skin reaction, an overall body reaction

8.) Thermal Burn (Page 118) -Tissue reaction to or injury resulting from application of heat.

9.) Propagate (Page 119) -to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.

10.) Aortic Tears (Page 119) - a tear in the wall of the aorta that causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta and force the layers apart.

11.) Ethereal (Page 120)- extremely delicate or refined; light, airy, or tenuous

12.) Bomb Blast (Page 122)- the explosion of a bomb

13.) Depressurization (Page 122) -to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).

14.) Deleterious (Page 122)-injurious to health; harmful; injurious

15.) Ostensibly (Page 125)-outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended; apparent, evident, or conspicuous

16.) Promulgate (Page 126)- to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation

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