GC: n S: THCO – https://bit.ly/2JISiIl (last access: 2 November 2019); Medscape – https://bit.ly/2PILzSu (last access: 2 November 2019). N: 1. Gram (pn): The discoverer of the stain was Hans Christian Joachim Gram, who was born in Denmark in 1853. – stain (n): 1560s, “act of staining,” from stain (v.).
GC: n S: WHO – https://bit.ly/2pDd8BU (last access: 2 November 2019); NIH – https://bit.ly/34l1ACf (last access: 2 November 2019). N: 1. Gram-negative (adj): gram-negative = not holding the purple dye when stained by Gram’s stain —used chiefly of bacteria. First Known Use of gram-negative: 1907. – bacterium (n): New Latin,
GC: n S: Medscape – https://wb.md/2qZdGT0 (last access: 2 November 2019); NCBI – https://bit.ly/33bnkQG (last access: 2 November 2019). N: 1. – Gram-positive (adj): gram-positive = holding the purple dye when stained by Gram’s stain —used chiefly of bacteria. First Known Use of gram-positive: 1907. – bacterium (n): New Latin,
GC: n S: Marinsight – http://www.marineinsight.com/marine-navigation/how-to-do-intentional-grounding-or-beaching-of-a-ship/ (8 July 2017) Cruisworld -; http://www.cruisingworld.com/how/what-do-when-you-run-aground (last access: 8 July 2017). N: 1. Origin of “ground”: before 900; (noun) Middle English grownd, grund, Old English grund; cognate with Dutch grond, German Grund; (verb) Middle English grundien, grownden “to set on a foundation, establish,” derivative of
GC: n S: UNICEF – http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/education-indicators-technical-guidelines-en_0.pdf (last access: 10 June 2020); CHILDWEL – https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/outofhome/group-residential-care/ (last access: 10 June 2020). N: 1. – group (n): From 1690s, originally an art criticism term, “assemblage of figures or objects forming a harmonious whole in a painting or design,” from French groupe“cluster, group” (17c.), from Italian gruppo,
GC: n S: NIH – https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001176.htm (last access: 22 October 2015); http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/growth-hormone-athletic-performance-and-aging (last access: 22 October 2015). N: 1. – growth (n): 1550s, “stage in growing,” from grow + -th (2), on model of health, stealth, etc. Compare Old Norse groði, from groa “to grow.” Meaning “that which has grown”
GC: n S: MEDLP – https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000684.htm (last access: 2 April 2017); WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/guillain-barre-syndrome/en/ (last access: 9 March 2018) N: 1. – Guillain (pn): Georges Guillain (1876–1961) and on 1927 he used the name “Guillain–Barré syndrome” during a neurology congress. – Barré (pn): On 1916, Jean Alexander Barré (1880–1967) met
GC: n S: http://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/2005-2006/DXXAG_D.htm (last access: 17 January 2015); http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15350697 (last access: 17 January 2015). DORLAND. N: 1. gynoid (adj): From the Greek gyno, gynaikos meaning woman + -oid, a word-forming element from Latinized form of Greek -oeides, from eidos “form. Gyneco, gyno, gyn, and gyne are combining forms meaning
GC: n S: http://www.wunderground.com/resources/severe/hail.asp (last access: 14 July 2015); http://www.n-d-a.org/snow-hail-storm.php (last access: 14 July 2015). N: 1. “frozen rain, pellets of ice falling in showers,” Old English hægl, hagol (Mercian hegel) “hail, hailstorm,” also the name of the rune for H, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, probably from PIE *kaghlo- “pebble”. 2.
GC: n S: http://enrin.grida.no/htmls/tadjik/vitalgraphics/eng/html/text_c7.htm (last access: 14 July 2015); https://carramar-natural-disasters.wikispaces.com/How+is+hail+formed%3F (last access: 14 July 2015). N: 1. Old English hagolstan; see hail (n.) + stone (n.). 2. Globule or piece of ice, with a diameter varying between 5 and 50 mm or even more, the fall of which constitutes hail.
GC: n S: SDir – https://bit.ly/2K2TNA0 (last access: 14 November 2018); NarcDiv – https://bit.ly/2RWEwnb (last access: 14 November 2018). N: 1. “drug which induces hallucinations,” 1954, from stem of hallucination (“a seeing or hearing something which is not there,” 1640s, from Latin hallucinationem, nominative hallucinatio, earlier alucinatio, noun of action
GC: n S: WOL – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/acr.20396 (last access: 26 November 2020); ScDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1063458409002076 (last access: 26 November 2020) N: 1. It comes from the Modern Latin word hallux (1831, corruption of Late Latin allex “great toe,” which is of unknown origin) and from the Latin word valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged, having
GC: n S: WHO – http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/41003/1/9241541261_eng.pdf (last access: 11 October 2015); http://www.pediatrics.emory.edu/divisions/neonatology/dpc/Impairment%20MX.html (last access: 11 October 2015). N: 1. handicap (v): “equalize chances of competitors,” 1852, but implied in the horse-race sense from mid-18c., from handicap (n.). Meaning “put at a disadvantage” is from 1864. Earliest verbal sense, now obsolete,
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/ith/diseases/hantavirus/en/ (last access: 6 November 2014); DORLAND; EncBrit. N: 1.Hanta: New Latin from Hantaan, river in South Korea near where rodents carrying the virus were collected 1974–78 + virus: late 14c., “venomous substance,” from Latin virus “poison, sap of plants, slimy liquid, a potent juice,”
GC: n S: http://www.webmd.com/women/hashimotos-thyroiditis-symptoms-causes-treatments#1 (last access: 12 July 2017); http://www.medicinenet.com/hashimotos_thyroiditis/article.htm (last access: 12 July 2017). N: 1. – Hashimoto (pn): Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is named after the Japanese surgeon who discovered it in 1912. It is an autoimmune disorder, which means it occurs when immune cells attack healthy tissue instead of
GG: adj S: http://www.hse.gov.uk/coshh/basics/substance.htm (last access: 11 October 2015); http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2677/regulation/7/made (last access: 11 October 2015); NAVARRO p. 444. N: 1. Within COSHH a “substance hazardous to health” means: Chemicals and products containing chemicals. dusts. fumes, mists, vapours. nanoparticles/nanotubes. toxic gases and asphyxiating gases. biological agents (micro-organisms). If the packaging has
GC: n S: CWB – https://bit.ly/2v0sWhk (last access: 11 April 2019); SPC – https://bit.ly/2IcpVmI (last access: 11 April 2019). N: 1. “opaqueness of the atmosphere,” 1706, probably a back-formation of hazy (q.v.). Sense of “confusion, vagueness” is 1797. The differentiation of “haze”, “mist”, “fog” (and other dialectal words) is unmatched