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breakthrough

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Source Word

breakthrough

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/

Adjective

not-comparable

Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

Japanese Meaning

重要な進展や劇的な進歩 / 障害や壁を打破する画期的な出来事 / 革新的な挑戦による顕著な成果

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The breakthrough treatment gave patients hope after years of limited options.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その画期的な治療は、長年にわたる限られた選択肢の末に患者たちに希望をもたらした。

Sense（1）

Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

a breakthrough technological advance

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Sense（2）

(immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.

Breakthrough infections (urine infections that develop in children on antibiotics) can occasionally occur, and if they do, different preventative antibiotics can be given or sometimes surgery to fix the leaky valve can be undertaken.

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Sense（3）

(medicine) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.

She was on two antiepileptics for five years but then had a breakthrough seizure.

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