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GC: n S: Chron – http://work.chron.com/job-description-clerk-courts-12762.html (last access: 20 October 2017); PR – https://public.resource.org/scribd/8763902.pdf (last access: 20 October 2017). N: 1. Middle English, from Anglo-French clerk & Old English cleric, clerc, both from Late Latin clericus, from Late Greek klērikos, from Greek klēros lot, inheritance (in allusion to Deuteronomy 18:2),
GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1 (last access: 8 October 2022); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7809683/ (last access: 8 October 2022). N: 1. COVID-19: The term “COVID-19” was formed using elements of the words coronavirus, disease and 2019. 2. COVID-19, in full coronavirus disease 2019, highly contagious respiratory illness, the cause of the COVID-19
GC: n S: BBC – https://bbc.in/2V5vTIs (last access: 22 February 2019); Techopedia – https://bit.ly/2V4IADd (last access: 19 February 2019). N: 1. crackers: These individuals are generally responsible for breaking into networks, cracking passwords in websites and programs, and generally causing havoc throughout the Internet. They are mostly malicious teens who
GC: n S: SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/creatinine (last access: 12 January 2024); APS – https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physrev.2000.80.3.1107(last access: 12 January 2024). N: 1. “alkaline substance obtained by the action of acids on creatine,” by 1847, from creatine + chemical suffix -ine (2). creatine (n): Organic substance obtained from muscular tissue, by 1843, from French creatine, from Greek kreas “flesh, meat”
GC: n S: NIH – http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cjd/detail_cjd.htm (last access: 21 August 2014); WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/creutzfeldtjakob_syndrome/en/ (last access: 21 August 2014). N: 1. Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Until the 1990s, three forms of CJD were recognized: sporadic disease, which accounted for the majority of cases and was of
GC: n S: ICRC – https://bit.ly/2yFmqhK (last access: 5 August 2019); OHCHR – https://bit.ly/2NNGTuP (last access: 5 August 2019). N: 1. From Latin crimen fault, accusation, crime. 2. Crime, the intentional commission of an act usually deemed socially harmful or dangerous and specifically defined, prohibited, and punishable under criminal law.
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GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs208/en/ (last access: 3 September 2016); https://www.gov.uk/guidance/crimean-congo-haemorrhagic-fever-origins-reservoirs-transmission-and-guidelines (last access: 3 September 2016). N: 1. CCHF was first described in the Crimea in 1944, among soldiers and agricultural workers, and in 1969 it was recognised that the virus causing the disease was identical to a virus
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs208/en/ (last access: 4 September 2016); PHAC – http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/crim-congo-eng.php (last access: 4 September 2016). N: 1. CCHF was first described in the Crimea in 1944, among soldiers and agricultural workers, and in 1969 it was recognised that the virus causing the disease was identical to
GC: n S: http://www.icpr.org.uk/ (last access: 16 November 2014); http://ec.europa.eu/justice/criminal/criminal-law-policy/index_en.htm (last access: 16 November 2014). N: 1. criminal (adj): early 15c., from Middle French criminel (11c.), from Latin criminalis “pertaining to crime,” from crimen (genitive criminis). Preserves the Latin -n-. Criminal law (or criminal justice) distinguished from civil in English
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GC: n S: https://books.google.es/books?id=k8c4AAAAIAAJ (last access: 11 October 2015); https://books.google.es/books?isbn=1878205153 (last access: 11 October 2015); DTMe (last access: 11 October 2015). N: 1. – crippled (adj): From the past participle of verb cripple (mid-13c., “to move slowly,” from cripple (n.). Meaning “make a cripple of, lame” is from early 14c.
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GC: n S: NYTIMES – https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html (last access: 12 November 2024); NMF – http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/facts/crow_vs_raven.html (last access: 12 November 2024). N: 1. crow, general common name of birds of the genus Corvus (the larger sort being sometimes called ravens), Old English crawe, which is held to be imitative of the bird’s
GC: n S: NMN – http://www.news-medical.net/news/2008/05/10/38244.aspx (last access: 4 November 2016); MD – http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/329255-treatment (last access: 4 November 2016). N: 1. From cryo- (word-forming element meaning “very cold, freezing”, from Latinized form of Greek kryo-, combined form of kryos, “icy cold”, related to kryeros, “chilling” + globulin (a type of
GC: n S: SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1471492213001554 (last access: last access: 15 August 2024); SL – https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-16334-2_6 (last access: 15 August 2024). N: 1. – culicine (n): another word for culex (in British English). culex (n): any mosquito of the genus Culex, such as C. pipiens, the common mosquito (in British
GC: n S: UNESCO – http://www.unescocenterforpeace.org/programs/builders-of-the-universe-program-bup/imun/(last access: 25 August 2015); UNICEF – http://www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/index_51636.html (last access: 25 August 2015). N: Cultural exchange programs expose students to people from different cultural, religious, geographic and socio-economic backgrounds and in so doing provide the opportunity for students to develop a greater understanding of diversity
GC: n S: UNESCO – http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001822/182210e.pdf (last access: 22 March 2013); https://www.kent.ac.uk/cewl/documents/external/talking-cultures/W2/Talking%20Cultures%20Week%202%20Unit%201%20-%20Cultural%20Identity1%20-%20handout.pdf (last access: 3 September 2014). N: Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as she/he is influenced by her/his belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity
GC: n S: NHS – http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cushings-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx (last access: 1 June 2017); MEDLP – https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000410.htm (last access: 7 March 2018). N: 1. – Cushing (pn): Harvey Williams Cushing was an American neurosurgeon (1869 – 1939). – syndrome (n): “A number of symptoms occurring together,” 1540s, from medical Latin, from Greek syndrome
GC: n S: http://www.divorce.com.sg/page4.html (last access:28 February 2013) N: A category of property typically excluded in liability policies. Items considered to be in the care, custody, and control of the insured are typically not covered by liability policies because they either belong to the insured and are therefore better covered