• Insects are articulate animals(절지동물).

② able to speak; expressing oneself easily and clearly; coherent / 말을 잘 한다는 것은 단어들을 잘 연결해서 문장을 만드는 것이므로 ... 말할 때는 앞 뒤가 서로 연결이 되지않아 횡설수설하면(inarticulate) 안됩니다.

• Senator Davis had first met Oliver Russell when Oliver handled a legal matter for him. Senator Davis was impressed. Oliver was intelligent, handsome, and articulate, with a boyish charm that drew people to him. [The Best Laid Plans written by Sidney Sheldon]
• It never occurred to him that he had always been attracted to women who were beautiful and not overly bright. Leslie was a revelation to him. She was intelligent and articulate and knowledgeable about an amazing range of subjects. [The Best Laid Plans written by Sidney Sheldon]

(v) 
① to speak distinctly; pronounce clearly
② to be jointed or connected

• The bones of our fingers are articulated.

22. articulation : (n) 
① the production of speech sounds

• clear articulation

② the expression of thoughts and feelings in words
③ a joint, esp. in a plant

23. inarticulate [in-, not + articulate] : produced without the normal articulation of understandable speech; not able to speak understandably, effectively, or coherently

• In the CNN poll, Clinton was also seen by voters as taking more unfair criticism, holding a better vision for the future, and understanding better the problems mentioned by the audience. Dole edged slightly ahead in the honesty category, 44-40 percent. 
  "President Clinton did a much better job than Senator Dole," one 37-year-old female audience member told AP after the debate. "Dole was nervous, and he was inarticulate." But another woman in the audience said, "Now I know I'm going to vote for Dole." [CNN Oct.17th 1996]
• No matter whose the picture, he could not leave it there in the dust, and he raised it; but then curiosity got the better of him. He thought he would like to have a proper look at it, so he brought it along and set it on the easel. Then he stood back in order to see it at his ease. He gave a gasp. It was the picture of a woman lying on a sofa, with one arm beneath her head and the other along her body; one knee was raised, and the other leg was stretched out. The pose was classic. Stroeve's head swam. It was Blanche. Grief and jealousy and rage seized him, and he cried out hoarsely; he was inarticulate; he clenched his fists and raised them threateningly at an invisible enemy. He screamed at the top of his voice. He was beside himself. 
  [The Moon and Sixpence written by William Somerset Maugham]

24. corpuscle [corpus, body + -cle, a suffix meaning small] : (n) 
① a very small particles
② Anat.(해부학), a protoplasmic particle(원형질 小體) with a special function; esp. any of the erythrocytes (red corpuscles: 적혈구) or leukocytes (white corpuscle:백혈구) that float in the blood, lymph, etc. of vertebrates(척추동물) / 혈구(blood cell)

• A corpuscle is a red or white blood cell.

25. erythrocyte [erythr(o)- , red + -cyte, cell] : a red blood corpuscle (red blood cell) (적혈구) : it is a very small, circular disk with both faces concave, and contains hemoglobin, which carries oxygen(산소) to the body tissues

26. leukocyte [leuc(o)-, leuk(o)-, white + -cyte, cell] : a white blood corpuscle (white blood cell) (백혈구) : it is small, colorless cells in the blood, lymph, and tissues, which are important in the body's defenses against infection

27. leuk(a)emia [leuc(o)-, leuk(o)-, white + -emia, a suffix meaning a (specified) condition or disease of the blood] : any of a group of neoplastic diseases of the blood-forming organs, resulting in an abnormal increase in the production of leukocytes, often accompanied by anemia(빈혈) and enlargement of the lymph nodes, spleen(脾臟/지라), and liver(肝臟/간) /백혈병

28. anemia [anaima <a-, an-, not, without + haima, blood :피가 없음] : a condition in which there is a reduction of the number of red blood cells (corpuscles) or of the total amount of hemoglobin in the blood stream or of both, resulting in a paleness, generalized weakness, etc./빈혈(증)

• Anemia is a reduction below the normal range of the hemoglobin concentration in the peripheral blood. Disorders associated with anemia are classified according to either morphologic or pathophysiologic criteria. The pathophysiologic classification separates disorders associated with anemia into two major categories: those due to bone marrow failure, with underproduction of erythrocytes, and those caused by peripheral loss or destruction of erythrocytes.
  [Essential Pathology written by Emanuel Rubin & John L. Farber]
• Chronic blood loss anemia is caused by iron deficiency and occurs only after the total body iron stores are depleted.
  [Essential Pathology written by Emanuel Rubin & John L. Farber]

29. cytology [cyte-, cell + -(o)logy, study of science] : a ranch of biology dealing with the structure, function, multiplication, pathology, and life history of cells/ 세포학

30. blood cell : a cell normally present in blood

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