News 12. World's Tiniest Baby to Go Home from Hospital.

<STYLE>P{margin-top:2px;margin-bottom:2px;}</STYLE> [NEW WORDS]   ♧ thrive : v. 자라다, 성장하다   ♧ be out to R : ~을 하려고 애쓰다   ♧ present : v. 정식으로 소개하다   ♧ deliver : v. 분만하다, 해산하다, 낳다   ♧ Caesarean[sizε∂rin] section : [줄리어스 시저가 이 방법으로 태어났다는 전설에서]  제왕절개 수술/분만   ♧ surge : n. 급상승, 큰 파도   ♧ fatal : a. 치명적인, 파멸적인, 운명의   ♧ make strides : 장족의 발전을 하다   ♧ life-support : n. 생명유지장치   ♧ microscopic : a. 극히 미세한, 극미의   ♧ intestine : n. 내장, 창자   ♧ immune system : n. 면역체계   ♧ premature : a. 조숙한, 조산의, 시기 상조의   ♧ round-the-clock : a. 24시간 연속의   ♧ sheer : a. 완전한, 순수한, 얇은   ♧ roughly : a. 대충, 대략   ♧ developmental : a. 개발적인, 발달/발육상의   ♧ typical : a. 전형적인, 대표적인       In Chicago today, doctors at Loyola University Medical Center say the smallest baby that's ever survived delivery will actually be going home soon. She weighed 8.6 ounces at birth. That's less than a small can of soup. Her twin sister weighed a pound and four ounces and she is thriving too.   Rumaisa Rahman was as small as a cell phone when she was born. The doctors say they were not out to break any records, but apparently they did. Today, at a news conference near Chicago, Rumaisa and her twin sister, Hiba, were presented to the world. Already, three months after they were born, they are survivors. They were delivered more than three months early by Caesarean section, because their mother had a blood pressure surge that could have been fatal.   Medicine has made great strides in treating babies that small. Today's incubators provide warmth and life-support. A nurse can take a microscopic blood sample to make sure there is no infection. But still for these babies, doctors said the chance of both surviving was little more than fifty-fifty.   "The heart and the intestines and the skin and the immune system are all extremely premature at that age."   Through a mix of round-the-clock care and sheer luck, doctors say the babies have roughly tripled in weight.   "It doesn't matter to me whether she is small or not, but the most important thing for us is they are doing fine."   It is still possible that one or both sisters could have developmental problems. There is no way to know for now. But, today at the hospital, the word 'miracle' was freely used.   "We want them to be good human beings."   Doctors say this family's case is not typical. But Rumaisa and her sister are healthy enough that they could both be home by next month.