動物、生物の病気と人間の病気に多くの共通点があることを教えてくれるZoobiquityを読んでいます。
STD(sexually transmitted disease)についての個所から引用します。
Or consider Enterobious vermicularis, a.k.a. pinworms. This common childhood infection alters human behavior by drawing hands away from more productive activities, like homework and setting the table, and redirects them into ferocious anal scratching. This scratching serves two purposes for E. vermicularis: It helps burst the gravid females' bodies, releasing the ten thousand eggs they each carry. And it helps those freshly exposed eggs burrow under the child's fingernails, where they wait patiently for the next thumb suck or nail bite to permit them entry into the host's mouth and, from there, his GI tract, where they produce.
覚えたい単語は "gravid" です。辞書の説明を読みます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Pregnant; carrying eggs or young.: Her physical examination was remarkable only for a gravid abdomen with minimal flank tenderness and absent breath sounds over the left side of the chest.
・Collins Dictionary: the technical word for pregnant: The victim was pregnant, but gracefully so, like the gravid Madonna in a Renaissance painting.
STD(sexually transmitted disease)についての個所から引用します。
Or consider Enterobious vermicularis, a.k.a. pinworms. This common childhood infection alters human behavior by drawing hands away from more productive activities, like homework and setting the table, and redirects them into ferocious anal scratching. This scratching serves two purposes for E. vermicularis: It helps burst the gravid females' bodies, releasing the ten thousand eggs they each carry. And it helps those freshly exposed eggs burrow under the child's fingernails, where they wait patiently for the next thumb suck or nail bite to permit them entry into the host's mouth and, from there, his GI tract, where they produce.
覚えたい単語は "gravid" です。辞書の説明を読みます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Pregnant; carrying eggs or young.: Her physical examination was remarkable only for a gravid abdomen with minimal flank tenderness and absent breath sounds over the left side of the chest.
・Collins Dictionary: the technical word for pregnant: The victim was pregnant, but gracefully so, like the gravid Madonna in a Renaissance painting.
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