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133 Ouch! Body parts Match the words from the box to the body parts (a–r) on p. 132. LANGUAGE 3 Medical vocabulary Copy the table into your notebook and put the green expressions from the text in the correct categories. Then add words you already know and share them in class. LANGUAGE 5 M p. 52 ankle  cheek  chest  chin  elbow  eyebrow  forehead  heel  hip  jaw  knee  shin  shoulder  stomach  thigh  thumb  waist  wrist Read the article about health below. Which facts do you find the most interesting? READING 4 M p. 52 Organs Medical conditions Verbs How your body works Your brain You might make jokes about your brain not work- ing properly, but did you know that by the age of eighteen your brain stops growing ? From that age onward it starts losing more than 1,000 brain cells every day. The typical brain weighs only about 1.4 kg, but it can come up with almost 50,000 thoughts in a day! Some people suffer a loss of blood supply to the brain, possibly resulting in a stroke . This is a serious condition and needs immediate medical treatment. If you get thirsty and become too de- hydrated , this can affect brain function and cause headache s. Your brain works continuously and never rests, even when you’re asleep. Your heart Did you know that on average your heart beat s 40 million times per year? Over your lifetime that adds up to two billion, six hundred million heart- beats pumping between 5 and 7 litres of blood per minute – that’s over 7,000 litres per day. Heart dis- ease is the world number one cause of death, and an unhealthy lifestyle, poor diet and being over- weight can lead to a heart attack . However, with modern treatment nowadays many people recover . Your lungs Whilst the heart pumps your blood around, your lungs transport oxygen from the air you breathe into your bloodstream and take away carbon diox- ide. An average person breathes in around 11,000 litres of air every day. We all know that smoking can cause lung cancer , but it can cause other lung diseases too, such as emphysema , so it makes sense for smokers to quit! Asthma is a common disease that affects the lungs. Asthma attacks happen when your airways narrow, and this makes breathing in air more difficult. Your liver The liver is a truly remarkable organ as it has the ability to grow back almost completely if you lose part of it. This is good news as it perform s more than 500 different functions, including storing glu- cose, cleaning your blood, producing antibodies and recycling hormones. Your liver weighs about the same as a small chihuahua, around 1.5 kg, and is about the size of a football, although 96 percent of this is water. Some lifestyle choices can have a serious effect on this vital organ. For example, the liver can only handle a certain amount of alcohol at any given time, so drinking too much or too quickly means the liver cells have difficulty processing it. This can also seriously affect the kidneys . Regular and heavy drinking over time can lead to liver disease . Simi- larly, drugs can also injure the liver and disrupt its normal function, causing liver disease to develop . Symptoms of liver disease include tiredness, weak- ness, stomach ache , loss of appetite and yellowing of the skin (known as jaundice ). Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv