• 認 [ニン] – acknowledge; recognize
• 知 [チ・しる] – know; wisdom
• 症 [ショウ] – illness

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

• 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.

Yeah… I’m not even going to bother with this one. 

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?

新型インフル：ＷＨＯが「豚インフルエンザ」の表現やめる

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]