heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly
surgery (branch of medicine); department of surgery
equality; equal; same rights; same rank; equivalence
childbirth; (giving) birth; delivery; production (of goods)
overtime; outside of hours (school, office, surgery, etc.)
to call (someone) to (the door, phone, etc.); to tell (someone) to come; to call up (on the phone); to invoke (e.g. a subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)
holiday; vacation; day off; time off; leave; furlough
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
exhausting work; hard work; severe duty
sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt
to choose; to select; to pick (out)
early; soon; quickly; swiftly; rapidly
to lose (through death; e.g. a wife, child)
memory; recollection; remembrance; memory; storage
opening a business; opening a practice
assistant professor; associate professor
(approximate) age; years; elderly; old; older (than); senior
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
respect; esteem; reverence; honour; honor
kindness; favor; favour; goodwill; affection; liking (for someone)
sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care
acutely (feel); keenly; severely; tightly; hard
to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch
consideration; taking into account
value in doing something; feeling that something is worth doing; rewarding feeling; sense of satisfaction
to be of benefit; to be beneficial; to be useful; to do one good; to be good for one
concentration; diligence; asceticism; zeal in one's quest for enlightenment; adherence to a vegetarian diet
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
to set aside; to keep in reserve; to hold on to
waiting room; anteroom; antechamber; green room
to be blessed with; to be rich in; to abound in
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
faculty of medicine; college of medicine; department of medicine; school of medicine; medical school
(period of) a year; during the era (of)
clinical training (for doctors)
lawsuit; suit; (legal) action; litigation
to appear uncomfortable (with); to seem to hate; to express dislike