医生测量体温的一个原因是免得被指玩忽职守而遭受索赔。
One reason doctors take temperatures is to cover themselves against negligence claims.
不过，随着时间的推移，这个单词的意思发生的转变——它不再指一种内科医生无法找到名字来称呼的病症，而是指一种内科医生并不相信其真实存在的病症。
But with time the meaning of the word shifted so that it came to mean not an illness the physician had no other name for, but an illness that the physician didn't actually believe was there.
这名医生还作证说，他的诊所，是美国仅有的三家实施晚期堕胎手术的诊所之一。 晚期堕胎是指对于已经能够在母体外存活的胎儿实施的流产。
The doctor also testified that he owns one of only three clinics in the US that perform late-term abortions, which are performed on foetuses that could survive outside the mother's womb.
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