TTX Vocabulary

GENEVA: US trade restrictions have hit a total of $369 billion of Chinese exports this year, much higher than the $278 billion of goods impacted by tariffs alone, a regular monitoring report of G20 trade restrictions said on Thursday. The Global Trade Alert report, produced by Simon Evenett and Johannes Fritz at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, said most media reports of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies focused on $278 billion of tariff increases. “However, this year has also seen $47 billion of Chinese good shipments to the United States targeted by other U.S. trade distortions . Furthermore, over $43 billion of Chinese exports have been caught up in other U.S. trade distortions that affect multiple countries,” the report said. “In fact a total of $369 billion of Chinese exports have faced new US trade distortions this year. Once the full range of U.S. trade distortions is taken into account, a third more Chinese exports are implicated in this year’s trade war....

1. verywellhealth.com The mediastinum is the area in the chest between the lungs that contains the heart, part of the windpipe (the trachea), the esophagus, and the great vessels including the ascending aorta (the large artery which carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart on its way to the rest of the body) and right and left pulmonary arteries—essentially all of the organs in the chest except the lungs. It is also home to many lymph nodes and nerves. The word mediastinum is translated as "midway" in Latin, in reference to the middle part of the chest.

1. Cambridge relating to the mediastinum (= the area of the chest that contains the heart and other organs and tissues)

1. Oxford Learners the smallest unit of living matter that can exist on its own.  All plants and animals are made up of cells. blood cells the nucleus of a cell

1. Oxford Learners [uncountable] (also tissues [plural]) a collection of cells that form the different parts of humans, animals and plants muscle/brain/nerve, etc. tissue scar tissue

1. Oxford Learners one of the small round parts of the lymphatic system that stores lymphocytes and helps fight infection

(limff) 1. Oxford Learners a clear liquid containing white blood cells that helps to clean the tissues of the body and helps to prevent infections from spreading

ISLAMABAD: Doctors on Tuesday recommended that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif, who is currently in the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) custody, be kept in an open and clean space as his chest and kidneys have been affected according to his medical report. The medical report dated November 25 from a laboratory in Islamabad states, "Few sub- centimeter mediastinal lymph nodes are seen. One of the more prominent right lower paratracheal lymph node measures 8.00mm in short axis ." "Both the kidneys show lobulated contours . There is a tiny hypodense area at lower pole of left kidney with internal fat attenuation ... suggesting of bening etiology likely angiomyolipoma ," it added. In light of the report, doctors recommended that Shehbaz be kept in an open and clean space which receives sunlight and fresh air. A few days earlier, a blood test report of the PML-N president had indicated that signs of cancer were returning. Following t...

The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, contradicting the Saudi government’s claims that he was not involved in the killing, according to people familiar with the matter. The CIA’s assessment, in which officials have said they have high confidence, is the most definitive to date linking Mohammed to the operation and complicates the Trump administration’s efforts to preserve its relationship with a close ally. A team of 15 Saudi agents flew to Istanbul on government aircraft in October and killed Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate, where he had come to pick up documents that he needed for his planned marriage to a Turkish woman. In reaching its conclusions, the CIA examined multiple sources of intelligence, including a phone call that the prince’s brother Khalid bin Salman, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, had with Khashoggi, according to the people familiar with th...