GC: n S: Harvard – https://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/about-faculty (last access: 31 May 2020); AAUP – https://www.aaup.org/report/inclusion-governance-faculty-members-holding-contingent-appointments (last access: 31 May 2020). N: 1. Late 14c., “ability, opportunity, means, resources,” from Old French faculte “skill, accomplishment, learning” (14c., Modern French faculté) and directly from Latin facultatem (nominative facultas) “power, ability, capability, opportunity; sufficient number, abundance, wealth,” from *facli-tat-s,

GC: n S: DrugWise – https://www.drugwise.org.uk/flashbacks/ (last access: 25 April 2020); Medscape – https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/288154-overview (last access: 25 April 2020). N: 1. 1903 in reference to fires in engines or furnaces, from verbal phrase (1902), from flash (v.) + back (adv.). Movie plot device sense is from 1916. The hallucinogenic drug sense is

GC: n S: JHSPH – https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/achieving-herd-immunity-with-covid19.html (last access: 17 May 2020); WHO – http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention/vaccines-and-immunization/data-and-statistics/infographics/infographic-herd-immunity-fighting-measles-is-a-shared-responsibility-2018 (last access: 17 May 2020). N: 1. – herd (n): Old English heord “herd, flock, company of domestic animals,” also, rarely, “a keeping, care, custody,” from Proto-Germanic *herdo (source also of Old Norse hjorð, Old High German herta, German Herde, Gothic hairda “herd”), from PIE *kerdh– “a

GC: n S: TheGuardian – https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/08/methadone-to-be-handed-out-without-prescription-during-covid-19-crisis#maincontent (last access: 8 April 2020); TheTelegraph – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/04/01/free-heroin-scheme-addicts-backed-probation-inspectors-combat/ (last access: 8 April 2020). N: 1. 1650s, “demigoddess”, from Latin heroine, heroina (plural heroinae) “a female hero, a demigoddess” (such as Medea), from Greek hērōine, fem. of hērōs. 2. It is a powerful drug which

GC: n S: HAct – https://humanitarianaction.info/ (last access: 1 May 2024); UN – https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/future-humanitarian-action (last access: 1 May 2024). N: 1. – humanitarian (adj): As a noun by 1794 in the theological sense “one who affirms the humanity of Christ but denies his pre-existence and divinity,” from humanity + suffix

GC: n S: HLN – https://www.healthline.com/health/aquaphobia#:~:text=This%20can%20include%20a%20swimming,the%20later%20stages%20of%20rabies. (last access: 19 November 2020); Lifeder – https://en.lifeder.com/hydrophobia/ (last access: 19 November 2020). N: 1. Late 14c., idroforbia, “dread of water, aversion to swallowing water,” a symptom of rabies in man (sometimes used for the disease itself), from Late Latin hydrophobia, from Greek hydrophobos “dreading water,” from

See “immunoglobulin G”: https://humantermuem.es/content/immunoglobulin-g/?lang=en

See “immunoglobulin M”: https://humantermuem.es/content/immunoglobulin-m/?lang=en

GC: n S: NHS – https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/pathology/tests/immunoglobulins-igg-iga-igm/ (last access: 21 October 2020); SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/immunoglobulin-g (last access: 21 October 2020). N: 1. First Known Use of immunoglobulin (immune + globulin): 1953. immunoglobulin: antibody. The glycoproteins produced by B-cells, called antibodies or immunoglobulins, recognize and bind free antigens and are responsible for humoral immunity… 2.

GC: n S: NHS – https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/pathology/tests/immunoglobulins-igg-iga-igm/ (last access: 21 July 2020); NIH – https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/12547/selective-igm-deficiency (last access: 21 July 2020). N: 1. First Known Use of immunoglobulin (immune + globulin): 1953. immunoglobulin: antibody. The glycoproteins produced by B-cells, called antibodies or immunoglobulins, recognize and bind free antigens and are responsible for humoral immunity…

See “incidence”: https://humantermuem.es/content/incidence/?lang=en (please, read the note number 5).

See Spanish influenza

In the field of Medicine in general. See quarantine, and read carefully the note 4. See lockdown, and read specially the note 3.

The list below shows the complete sources used in the glossary:

GC: n S: WHO – https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/336284/Eurohealth-26-2-93-98-eng.pdf (last access: 21 April 2024); NHS – https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/coronavirus-and-lockdown-you-said-we-did/ (last access: 21 April 2024). N: 1. also lock-down, from late 19c. in various mechanical senses, from the verbal phrase; see “lock” (v.) + “down” (adv.). Prison sense is by 1975, American English. 2. Three meanings

GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-preventable-pain-pandemic (last access: 12 April 2020); Cochrane – https://www.cochrane.org/CD011056/SYMPT_impact-morphine-fentanyl-oxycodone-or-codeine-patient-consciousness-appetite-and-thirst-when-used (last access: 12 April 2020). N: 1. 1828, from French morphine or German Morphin (1816), name coined by German apothecary Friedrich Sertürner (1783-1840) in reference to Latin Morpheus (q.v.), Ovid’s name for the god of dreams,

GC: n S: TRS – https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.1932.0078 (last access: 14 July 2020); NIH – https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/abs/10.1289/ehp.9087207 (last access: 14 July 2020). N: 1. 1690s, “state of unconsciousness caused by a narcotic,” Modern Latin, from Greek narkōsis, from narkoun “to benumb” (see narcotic (n.)). 2.  State of stupor, unconsciousness, or arrested activity produced by the influence of narcotics or

GC: n S: NCBI – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13691745/; SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0024320575900818 (last access: 2 July 2020). N: 1. As a noun, late 14c., narcotik, “substance which directly induces sleep or allays sensibility and blunts the senses,” from Old French narcotique (early 14c.), noun use of adjective, and directly from Medieval Latin narcoticum, from Greek narkōtikon, neuter of narkōtikos “making

GC: n S: BJA – https://www.bjanaesthesia.org.uk/article/S0007-0912(17)51838-3/pdf (last access: 5 July 2020); UofMhealth – https://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/d03436a1 (last access: 5 July 2020). N: 1. As a noun, late 14c., narcotik, “substance which directly induces sleep or allays sensibility and blunts the senses,” from Old French narcotique (early 14c.), noun use of adjective, and directly from Medieval

GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/health-topics/tobacco#tab=tab_1 (last access: 7 July 2020); NCBI – https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Nicotine (last access: 7 July 2020). N: 1. Also nicotin, poisonous volatile alkaloid base found in tobacco leaves, 1819, from French nicotine, earlier nicotiane, from Modern Latin Nicotiana, the formal botanical name for the tobacco plant, named for Jean Nicot (c. 1530-1600), French

GC: n S: NCBI – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19471817/ (last access: 15 July 2020); DRUGS – https://www.drugs.com/illicit/opium.html (last access: 15 July 2020). N: 1. “inspissated juice of the poppy plant,” especially as used in medicine from 17c. for relief of pain and production of sleep, late 14c., from Latin opium, from Greek opion “poppy juice, poppy,” diminutive

GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/publications-detail/9789241548816 (last access: 24 April 2020); MedlinePlus – https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007480.htm (last access: 24 April 2020). N: 1. 1700, “an excessive or too large dose”, from over- [from Old English ofer. ´Over´ and its Germanic relations were widely used as prefixes, and sometimes could be used with

See polymerase chain reaction.

GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/influenza/gisrs_laboratory/pcr_working_group/en/ (last access: 10 April 2020); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia/diagnosis/ (last access: 10 April 2020). N: 1. PCR: polymerase chain reaction. 2. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a technique used to make numerous copies of a specific segment of DNA quickly and accurately. The polymerase chain reaction enables investigators to obtain