F2F Class Notes (Nemo) [R]

Vocabulary

Adult (n): 1- a person or animal that has grown to full size and strength:
E.g.: An adult under English law is someone over 18 years old.
E.g.: Adults pay an admission charge but children get in free.

experiment (n): 1-a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or is true:
E.g.: Some people believe that experiments on animals should be banned.

torment (n): 1- great mental suffering and unhappiness, or great physical pain:
E.g.: The family said they had endured years of torment and abuse at the hands of their neighbors.
torment (v): 1-to cause a person or animal to suffer or worry:
E.g.: The animals are tormented mercilessly by flies and mosquitoes.

junction (n): 1-a place where things, especially roads or railways, come together:
E.g.: You should slow down as you approach the junction.

blister (n): 1- a painful swelling on the skin that contains liquid, caused usually by continuous rubbing, especially on your foot, or by burning:
E.g.: New shoes always give me blisters.

infection (n): 1- a disease in a part of your body that is caused by bacteria or a virus:
E.g.: a serious infection
E.g.: a throat infection
E.g.: Bandage the wound to reduce the risk of infection.

Miracle gene saves boy with skin eating disease
https://www.shine.cn/feature/wellness/1711206627/

A boy, who nearly died when disease stripped skin from most of his body, is playing soccer two years after he received a new, gene-edited hide, in an experimental procedure, doctors who treated him said.

The boy, then seven-years-old, was admitted to hospital in June 2015 with the “devastating” effects of a genetic disease called Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) that has tormented him since birth.

The disease causes the skin to blister and come off at the slightest touch.

Doctors were at a loss. After trying everything they knew, they concluded the child would die.

He was admitted to the Ruhr University Children’s Hospital in Bochum, Germany “because he had developed an infection in which he rapidly lost nearly two-thirds of body surface area” of the outer skin layer called the epidermis, said Tobias Rothoeft of the hospital’s burn unit.