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GC: n S: BurkeMus – https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/myth-daddy-longlegs-kind-spider (last access: 19 August 2024); UC Riverside – https://spiders.ucr.edu/daddy-long-legs (last access: 19 August 2024). N: 1. daddy (n). c. 1500, colloquial diminutive of dad, with -y (3). Slang daddy-o is attested by 1949, from bop talk. Daddy-long-legs is from 1814 in Britain as “crane-fly,”
GC: n S: MedicineNet.com – http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7036 (last access: 29 November 2013); GDT; TERMIUM PLUS; DTMe. N: 1. Dalton: in reference to a system of school education designed by Helen Parkhurst, 1920, from Dalton, Massachusetts, U.S., where it was first adopted. For Daltonism see color blindness. color blindness (n.): 1844, replacing
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GC: n S: WHO – https://bit.ly/2WhCgO3 (last access: 2 June 2019); MEDNT – https://bit.ly/2C4YW5h (last access: 2 June 2019). N: 1. “incapacity of distinguishing or perceiving sounds,” late 14c., defnesse, from deaf + -ness. 2. Deafness, partial or total inability to hear. The two principal types of deafness are conduction
GC: n S: HARVARD – https://www.gse.harvard.edu/about/dean (last access: 7 Jun 2020); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4013870 (last access: 7 Jun 2020). N: 1. “Head of a group of ten” (early 14c. as alcofol), from Old French deien, from Late Latin decanus “head of a group of 10 monks in a monastery”. Meaning
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GC: n S: UN – http://www.un.org/en/decolonization/ (last access: 11 December 2014) N: 1. 1853 in political sense, American English, from de- + colonization. Earlier as a medical term. 2. It is the process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country. 3. Décolonisation was used by a french writer
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GC: n S: NIMH – http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml (last access: 21 November 2014); DORLAND p. 484. N: 1. “act of misleading someone,” early 15c.; as a form of mental derangement, 1550s, from Latin delusionem (nominative delusio) “a deceiving,” noun of action from past participle stem of deludere 2. The Online Etymology Dictionary
GC: n S: The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/25/the-dementia-that-can-be-cured (last access: 1 November 2020); HLN – https://www.healthline.com/health/dementia (last access: 5 November 2020). N: 1. It was first recorded in 1806, comes from the Latin word dementia which means “madness, insanity”, literally “a being out of one’s mind”. It existed an earlier Englished form
GC: n S: Alz.org – https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-dementia/types-of-dementia/dementia-with-lewy-bodies (last access: 22 July 2023); Camb Univ Press – https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/dementia-with-lewy-bodies/0A3361403734F9E64715C2EE15038E01 (last access: 22 July 2023). N: 1. – dementia (n): “extremely low condition of mental function, mental incapacity,” 1806, from Latin dementia “madness, insanity,” literally “a being out of one’s mind,” from dement–, stem
GC: n S: UN – https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/files/past/unmop_r.htm (last access: 7 June 2024); ICRC – https://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/demilitarized-zones (last access: 7 June 2024). N: 1. – demilitarized (adj): From the past participle of verb demilitarize also demilitarise; “remove military organization from,” 1869, see de- + militarize. Demilitarized zone attested by 1921 (the Versailles Treaty
GC: n S: http://water.me.vccs.edu/courses/ENV115/lesson11.htm (last access: 11 December 2013); http://www.rwlwater.com/demineralization/ (last access: 27 July 2015). N: 1. The reduction of the content of dissolved salts or inorganic substances in water by a physical, chemical or biological process. (Definition standardized by ISO). 2. demineralization: term standardized by ISO. 3. Ion exchange
GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dengue-and-severe-dengue (last access: 22 September 2024); CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/es/index.html (last access: 22 September 2024). N: 1. 1828, from West Indian Spanish dengue, from an African source, perhaps Swahili dinga “seizure, cramp,” form influenced by Spanish dengue “prudery” (perhaps because sufferers walk stiffly and erect due
GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2023-DON498 (last access: 22 September 2024); CDC – https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2024/han00511.asp (last access: 22 September 2024). N: 1. – dengue (n). 1828, from West Indian Spanish dengue, from an African source, perhaps Swahili dinga “seizure, cramp,” form influenced by Spanish dengue “prudery” (perhaps because sufferers walk stiffly