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Grammar exercises
1. Translate the following sentences, paying special attention
to the gerund.
1. Dressing is applied to provide favourable healing conditions for a
pathological process.
2. Change of wound dressing should cause minimal pain to a pa-
tient.
3. The thyroidectomy is removing the thyroid gland.
4. The cerebellum is the centre for making your muscles work as a
team.
5. The medulla is also capable of controlling acts such as swallow-
ing and yawning.
6. What the novocaine does is preventing the impulses from getting
to the brain from the nerve in the tooth.
7. Physical agents become stimuli for nerve terminals by transfer-
ring energy from the external world to the nerve terminals.
8. Studying human beings with accidential injuries of brains helped
scientists to get information about these areas (cerebrum, cerebel-
lum, medulla).
9. Many experiments have shown that the brain is the centre of feel-
ing and understanding.
10. The doctor insisted on applying chemotherapy.
11. Functional nerve block can be produced without cutting or injur-
ing the fibres permanently.
12. Walking augments the flow of impulses.
13. The brain is the primary centre for regulating and coordinating
body activities.
14. We know of the position of an arm or a leg without looking at it.
15. The conditioned reflexes discovered by I.P.Pavlov are the mecha-
nism through which the body responds to the outside world in
avoiding injury, obtaining food and performing many more com-
plex acts.
16. The thalamus monitors the sensory stimuli we receive by sup-
pressing some and magnifying others.
17. Professor told us about diagnosing the hypophisis disfunctions.