Pediatrics

1. Read and learn by heart:

ACTIVE VOCABULARY

Branch а branch of medicine	n. раздел; раздел медицины
to deal (dealt, dealt) with smth	v. иметь дело с чем-л., заниматься чем-л.; рассматривать (проблему, вопрос)
Age	n. возраст
Infant	n. младенец (ребенок до одного года)
neonate syn. newborn baby	n. новорожденный
Adolescent	n. подросток; a. подростковый, пубертатный
Obvious	a. очевидный
maturational	a. относящийся к созреванию
congenital congenital defect	a. врожденный; врожденный дефект
Genetic	a. генетический
Issue	n. вопрос
Inherited	a. наследственный
Recognize	v. распознавать, узнавать
Undergo	v. проходить, подвергаться
Specialty	n. специальность
sub-specialty	n. узкая специальность
Respect	n. отношение, касательство
Pattern	n. модель, шаблон

2. Translate the word combinations with the given key-words:

to deal with: deals with, dealt, to deal with medical care of infant, children, an adolescents, pediatric cardiologists deal with the heart conditions of children;

adolescent: the medical care of adolescents, adolescent medicine, specialists or sub-specialists in adolescent medicine, the pattern of diseases in adolescents;

sub-specialty: sub-specialty of adult medicine, adolescent medicine is a growing sub-specialty, neonatology is another major sub-specialty, which is unique to pediatrics, undergo further training in sub-specialties;

difference: a major difference, the obvious body size differences, the differrence between normal variants and what is actually pathologic, a slight semantic difference.

3. Define the part of speech and translate into Russian:

1. differ, difference, different, differently; 2. infect, infectious, infective, infected; 3. mature, maturation, maturational; 4. inherit, inherited, inheritance; 5 pediatrics, pediatric, pediatrician.

4. Read and translate:

the upper age limit, to differ in many respects, congenital defects, many inherited diseases, the period of greatest growth, practitioners of internal medicine, the medical care of newborn babies, years of training and experience.

5. Match Russian and English equivalents:

1. congenital heart defects	a) детство
2. growing sub-specialty	b) основное различие
3. adolescent medicine	c) генетическое изменение
4. depending on the country	d) врожденные пороки сердца
5. maturation of the various organ systems	e) соответствующая специальность в взрослой медицины
6. genetic variance	f) в зависимости от страны
7. a major difference	g) вопросы, связанные с развитием
8. relevant adult specialty	h) подростковая медицина
9. childhood	i) созревание систем различных органов
10. developmental issues	j) развивающаяся узкая специальность

6. Read and translate the following sentences:

1. In the 9^th century, the famous Persian physician Rhazes (Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi) wrote “The Diseases of Children”, the first book to deal with pediatrics as an independent field of medicine. 2. Pediatrics as a separate area of medical practice in the Western world largely began in the nineteenth century. 3. In 1834 the first children’s hospital was set up in Petersburg. 4. The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street (London) was founded in 1852, and is probably the oldest such children's hospital in the English-speaking world. 5. In the USA, the first similar institutions were the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which opened in 1855, and then Boston Children’s Hospital (1869). 6. Many outstanding Russian scientists emphasized the extreme necessity of the improvement of child care organization in Russia. 7. N. Filatov is considered the founder of Russian clinic pediatrics. 8. The training of pediatricians varies considerably across the world.