acting - herecký výkon, herecké výkony

noun - the quality of an actor's performance, the way the actors act in a movie or on stage

artery - tepna

noun - one of the tubes through which blood flows from the heart into other parts of the body

 

oesophagus - jícen

noun - a muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach, allowing food and liquids to pass from the mouth to the stomach for digestion

jaundice - žloutenka

noun - a medical condition in which the skin and the whites of the eyes become yellow because of an increase of bilirubin in the blood

 

retina - sítnice (oka)

noun - a layer of tissue at the back of the eye that receives light and sends pictures of what the eye sees to the brain

 

Stephen King - Stephen King

noun - a popular American novelist, the master of horror, the author of bestsellers such as It, Carrie, The Shawshenk Redemption, The Green Mile and others

 

passive - trpný rod, pasivum

noun - the grammatical structure we use when the logical subject of the sentence is used as the grammatical subject, the structure is BE + past participle (be done, be finished, be stolen etc.)

 

passive voice - trpný rod, pasivum

noun - the grammatical structure we use when the logical subject of the sentence is used as the grammatical subject, the structure is BE + past participle (be done, be finished, be stolen etc.)

Jordan - Jordánsko

noun - a country in Western Asia, situated on the east bank of the Jordan River, bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the northeast, Saudi Arabia to the south and southeast, and Israel and Palestine to the west

Syria - Sýrie

noun - a country in Western Asia, located on the eastern Mediterranean coast, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Lebanon and Israel to the southwest

 

congress - kongres

noun - the group of people who make laws in some countries, especially the United States, where it consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives

leg - noha (dolní končetina)

noun - one of the two parts of the body that we walk on, it has a knee in the middle and a foot at the end

Nevada - Nevada

noun - a state in the west of the USA known for its deserts, the capital of gambling - Las Vegas (although the real capital is Carson City)

 

diameter - průměr (např. kruhu)

noun - the distance between two points on the circumference of a circle that can be connected by a straight line passing the center of the circle

 

tropic - obratník

noun - one of the two imaginary lines north and south of the equator that marks the farthest the sun can go and still shine directly overhead