認知症 [にんちしょう] – cognitive impairment; senility; dementia
- 認 [ニン] – acknowledge; recognize
- 知 [チ・しる] – know; wisdom
- 症 [ショウ] – illness
Ninchishō
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Heikou Kankaku
平衡感覚 [へいこうかんかく] – sense of equilibrium or balance
- 平 [ヘイ・たいら・ひら] – even; flat
- 衡 [コウ] – equilibrium
- 感 [カン] – feeling; sensation
- 覚 [カク・おぼえる] – remember; learn
平衡 [へいこう] – equilibrium; balance
感覚 [かんかく] – sense; feeling
The word in Japanese for “balance beam” (as in gymnastics) is:
平均台 「へいきんだい」
- 平 [ヘイ・たいら・ひら] – even; flat
- 均 [キン] – level; average
- 台 [ダイ] – pedestal; stand
Tounyoubyou
糖尿病 [とうにょうびょう] – diabetes
- 糖 [トウ] – sugar
- 尿 [ニョウ] – urine
- 病 [ビョウ・やむ] – disease
A diabetic person is 糖尿病患者 [とうにょうびょうかんじゃ] or a sugar-urine-disease-patient.
PNF
固有受容性神経筋促通法 [こゆうじゅようせいしんけいきんそくつうほう] – PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation)
Yeah… I’m not even going to bother with this one. 
Today’s Japanese: jibyou
持病 [じびょう] – chronic disease
This compound is made up of the characters 持 [ジ・もつ - to hold/have] and 病 [ビョウ・やむ - illness/to be sick]. Makes sense, eh?
When Pigs Fly
新型インフル：ＷＨＯが「豚インフルエンザ」の表現やめる
【ジュネーブ澤田克己】世界保健機関（ＷＨＯ）は４月３０日、新型インフルエンザについて、「豚インフルエンザ」との表現をやめ、ウイルスの型を 示す「インフルエンザＡ（Ｈ１Ｎ１）」の呼称を使用すると表明した。畜産業界や国連食糧農業機関（ＦＡＯ）から寄せられた風評被害への懸念を考慮したとい う。
ＷＨＯのトンプソン報道官は、人から人への感染力を持つようになった新型インフルエンザについて「他の人インフルエンザと同じようなものになってきた」と言明した。
WHO to stop use of the phrase “swine flu”
[Geneva - Sawada Katsumi] On April 30th, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it would stop using the phrase “swine flu,” and would instead refer to this new form of the virus as the “H1N1 Influenza A” virus. This is thought to be as a result of charges of financial damages caused by bad press brought by the animal husbandry world as well as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
WHO spokesperson Thompson asserted that the new form of the flu, capable of human-to-human transmission, had become just like any other form of human influenza.
[http://mainichi.jp/select/world/news/20090501k0000e040077000c.html]
Today’s Japanese
豚インフルエンザ (ぶたインフルエンザ) – Swine Flu