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Medical Story Show

（7-5）

Get her on her side.

把她侧过来

I need some Ativan! I'll get it.

我需要一些安定文 我去拿

What's happened? She's having a seizure.

发生什么事了 癫痫发作

She's aspirating. Suction.

她肺部涌入液体 快用吸引泵

Come on, Elyse.

挺住 伊利斯

The M.R.I. reveals nothing.

核磁共振结果看不出任何异常

That we were able to detect. It's not a tumor.

只是我们没有检测出异常而已 不是肿瘤

A small glioma could hide from contrast.

小的神经胶质瘤可能无法显示

We could do a PETscan.

我们可以做正子放射断层扫瞄

Yes. That's how a responsible

没错 一个有责任心的医生

doctor would waste his time in this situation.

就是这样一点点浪费时间的

Suddenly tests and radiologists are incapable of error?

你又忽然觉得检验和放射科医生都不会出错了吗

A glioma not presenting on a contrast M.R.I.

如果一个神经胶质瘤在核磁共振上都无法显示

would have to be smaller than a grain of sand

那它一定比沙粒还小

which does not a gravely ill person make.

因此不可能让病情如此严重

It could be just postictal disorientation.

可能是病发引起的神志混乱

We would have seen improvement by now.

那样的话 现在情况应该有改善了

Latestage Lyme disease can cause seizures.

莱姆病到了晚期也能导致癫痫

Does the husband care about her?

她丈夫关心她吗

He hasn't left her bedside. How annoying.

他寸步不离她的病床 烦人啊

It also means she doesn't have Lyme disease.

这也意味着她没有莱姆病

What, love conquers all?

什么 爱能战胜一切吗

Lyme disease initially presents with a rash.

莱姆病早期会呈现皮疹

Mr. Clingy would have noticed.

如果有的话 恩爱先生会注意到的

We've looked at everything else.

我们什么都查了

Did you look at her breasts?

检查乳房了吗

Men.

男人啊

It could be paraneoplastic.

可能是副肿瘤综合症

She have any family history of breast cancer?

她有乳腺癌家族史吗

Her mother died of it.

她母亲死于乳腺癌

The brain, but not the brain.

脑部问题 不过不是你说的那个病因

Clever, huh?

更聪明

How can breast cancer cause problems in her brain?

乳腺癌为何会导致脑部问题

There are molecular similarities between brain cells and tumor cells.

脑细胞和肿瘤细胞在分子结构上存在相似性

Paraneoplastic syndrome causes the body's own antibodies

副肿瘤综合症会使人体自身的抗体

to get thrown off track.

主动对抗肿瘤细胞

They end up attacking the brain instead of the tumor.

结果它们对抗的是脑细胞 而非肿瘤细胞

So, if you do find a tumor, what do you do?

那么 要是你们找到肿瘤 怎么办

We treat the underlying malignancy.

我们会清除隐藏的恶性肿瘤细胞

Once there's no tumor to attack

一旦肿瘤被清除

there's nothing for the antibodies to get confused about.

抗体就不会混淆攻击目标了

If the tumor's treatable. Exactly.

前提是肿瘤可治 当然

——From《House M.D》

重点词汇（Vocabulary）

1. seizure [ˈsiːʒər]n. （疾病的）突然发作

2. aspirating [ˈæspəreɪtɪŋ] n. 除尘；抽气；吸气

3. glioma [ɡlaɪˈoʊmə] n. 胶质瘤；[肿瘤] 神经胶质瘤

4. molecular [məˈlekjələr] adj. 分子的，与分子有关的

5. malignancy [məˈlɪɡnənsi] n. 恶性（肿瘤等）；恶意

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