GC: n S: ICRC – http://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_cha_chapter44_rule156 (last access: 14 November 2013); EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/topic/war-crime (last access: 11 July 2015). N: 1. The majority of war crimes involve death, injury, destruction or unlawful taking of property. However, not all acts necessarily have to result in actual damage to persons or objects

GC: n S: RCH – http://www.rch.org.au/uploadedfiles/main/content/haematology/warfarin_information_for_parents_and_children_4_aug08_.pdf (last access: 13 February 2016); Drugs.com – http://www.drugs.com/warfarin.html (last access: 28 February 2013). N: 1. Warfarin (n.): 1950, from WARF, acronym from Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation + -arin, from Coumarin. The organization describes itself as «an independent, nonprofit foundation chartered to support research at

CG: nf CA: Farmacología; Farmacia; Medicina – Hematología y Serología. CT: La warfarina y otros anticogulantes cumarínicos actúan inhibiendo la sintesis de los factores de la coagulación dependientes de la vitamina K, entre los que se encuentran los factores II, VII, IX y X, y las proteínas anticoagulantes C y

CG : nf S : OMS – http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/66010/3/whocdscsredc992Fb.pdf (consulté le 11.01.2016) ; Erudit – http://www.erudit.org/revue/ms/2004/v20/n5/008413ar.pdf (consulté le 20.06.2012). N : 1. Le terme «warfarine» a été créé à partir des sigles en anglais WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) + « (coum)arine ». 2. Pharmacologie > Pharmacie ; Médecine > Hématologie

See Sierterm: https://sierterm.es/content/waste

See Sierterm: http://www.sierterm.es/tiki-index.php?page=waste+of+electrical+and+electronic+equipment

GC: n S: http://water.usgs.gov/edu/wuww.html (last access: 7 August 2015); FAO – http://www.fao.org/docrep/t0551e/t0551e05.htm (last access: 6 July 2015); EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/technology/wastewater-treatment (last access: 7 August 2015). N: 1. wastewater treatment, also called sewage treatment, the removal of impurities from wastewater, or sewage, before they reach aquifers or natural bodies of water

GC: n S: UNICEF – http://www.unicef.org/media/files/wes_tables.pdf (last access: 14 October 2012); WHO – http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/aww2.pdf (last access: 7 July 2015). N: water (n): Middle English, from Old English wæter; akin to Old High German wazzar water, Greek hydōr, Latin unda wave. coverage (n): mid-15c., «charge for a booth at a fair,»

See SIERTERM: https://sierterm.es/content/water-footprint

GC: n S: EEEAS – http://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/trinidad/eu_trinidad/humanitarian_aid/index_en.htm (last access: 28 February 2013); NRDC – http://www.nrdc.org/water/ (last access: 9 July 2015). N: – water (n): First Known Use: As noun: before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a (the liquid that descends from the clouds as rain, forms streams,

GC: n S: UNDP – http://www.undp.ps/en/fsh/43772.pdf (last access: 16 July 2012); WHO – http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/aww2.pdf (last access: 7 July 2015); http://www.iwaponline.com/ws/toc.htm (last access: 7 July 2015). N: 1. – water (n): Middle English, from Old English wæter; akin to Old High German wazzar water, Greek hydōr, Latin unda wave. – supply

GC: n S: UNESCO – http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001229/122948e.pdf (last access: 30 October 2012); WHO – http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/en/ (last access: 14 October 2015). N: Water, sanitation and hygiene have important impacts on both health and disease. Water-related diseases include: those due to micro-organisms and chemicals in water people drink; diseases like schistosomiasis which have

GC: n S: https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2015-12-30/weather-and-war-put-humanitarian-system-under-unprecedented (last access: 17 July 2016); http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/30/weather/el-nino-1016-effects/ (last access: 17 July 2016). N: 1. Middle English weder, from Old English; akin to Old High German wetar weather, Old Church Slavic vetrŭ wind First Known Use: before 12th century 2. State of the atmosphere at a particular time,

GC: n S: MN – http://www.medicinenet.com/wegeners_granulomatosis/article.htm (last access: 12 June 2017); emedicine – https://www.emedicinehealth.com/wegener_granulomatosis/article_em.htm (last access: 4 May 2018). N: 1. – Wegener (pn): Friedrich Wegener was a German pathologist (1907-1990). – granulomatosis (n): 1911, granuloma + -t- from Greek + –ōsis. 2. Wegener’s granulomatosis is a very rare disease

GC: n S: WebMD – https://www.webmd.com/brain/what-is-wernickes-aphasia (last access: 14 December 2024); HLN – https://www.healthline.com/health/wernickes-aphasia (last access: 14 December 2024). N: 1. – Wernicke (pn): Carl Wernicke (1848-1905) was a German neurologist who related nerve diseases to specific areas of the brain. – aphasia (n): from Modern Latin aphasia, from Greek aphasia «speechlessness,» abstract noun

GC: n S: NORD – https://rarediseases.org/es/rare-diseases/west-nile-encephalitis/ (last access: 16 August 2024); EncephInt – https://www.encephalitis.info/types-of-encephalitis/infectious-encephalitis/west-nile-encephalitis/ (last access: 16 August 2024). N: 1. – West (adj): As an adjective from late 14c.; as a noun from late 12c. West used in geopolitical sense from World War I (Britain, France, Italy, as opposed

GC: n S: NICD – https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/west-nile-fever/ (last access: 16 August 2024); GOV.UK – https://www.gov.uk/guidance/west-nile-fever (last access: 16 August 2024). N: 1. – West (adj): As an adjective from late 14c.; as a noun from late 12c. West used in geopolitical sense from World War I (Britain, France, Italy, as opposed

GC: n S: CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/west-nile-virus/about/index.html (last access: 16 August 2024); WHO – https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/west-nile-virus (last access: 16 August 2024). N: 1. – West (adj): As an adjective from late 14c.; as a noun from late 12c. West used in geopolitical sense from World War I (Britain, France, Italy, as opposed

GC: n S: NORD – https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/west-syndrome/ (last access: 6 November 2015); MD – http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1176431-overview (last access: 6 November 2015). N: 1. The syndrome’s namesake, Dr W J West, gave the first detailed description of infantile spasms, which occurred in his own child. 2. In a letter to the editor of

GC: pln S: WaPo – https://wapo.st/2B0fldb (last access: 24 January 2019); Newsweek – https://bit.ly/1obTgw3 (last access: 24 January 2019). N: 1. wetback (n.): «illegal Mexican immigrant to the U.S.,» c.1924, from wet (adj.) + back (n.); from notion of wading the Rio Grande. 2. First use: 1929. Origin: the practice

GC: n S: MNT – http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/188228.php (last access: 30 March 2017); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88990/ (last access: 4 April 2018). N: 1. – Whipple (pn): George Hoyt Whipple (1878 – 1976), American pathologist whose discovery that raw liver fed to chronically bled dogs will reverse the effects of anemia led directly

GC: n S: NCBI – https://bit.ly/2OHVc3w (last access: 9 October 2019); MEDLP – https://bit.ly/2q00zAu (last access: 9 October 2019). N: 1. – white (adj): Old English hwit «bright, radiant; clear, fair,» also as a noun (see separate entry), from Proto-Germanic *hweit- (source also of Old Saxon and Old Frisian hwit,

See tuberculosis (note 4).

GC: n S: MarLIN – https://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/detail/58 (last access: 14 September 2024); EUNIS – https://eunis.eea.europa.eu/species/9965 (last access: 14 September 2024). N: 1. whitefish (n.). collective name for cod, haddock, hake, sole, etc., mid-15c., from white (adj.) + fish (n.). 2. whitefish, any of several valuable silvery food fishes (family Salmonidae, or