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GC: S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1769710/ (last access: 23 December 2019); Medscape – https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/332378-overview (last access: 23 December 2019). N: 1. – Takayasu (pn): Mikito Takayasu (高安 右人 Takayasu Mikito, September 4, 1860 – November 20, 1938) was a Japanese ophthalmologist known for his discovery of Takayasu’s arteritis. – arteritis (n):
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GC: n S: UN – http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/afghan/un-afghan-history.shtml (last access: 11 December 2014); BBC – http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11451718 (last access: 16 December 2014). N: 1. Taliban (n): Sunni fundamentalist movement begun in Afghanistan, from Pashto plural of Arabic tālib “student;” so called because it originated among students in Pakistani religious schools. 2. Originally, “taliban,”
GG: n S: FAO – http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5624e/x5624e04.htm (last access: 7 November 2013); CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/drinking-water/causes/index.html (last access: 23 November 2024). N: 1.- tap (n): “a light stroke, as with the fingers; a gentle blow,” mid-14c., a noun from tap (v.1) or from Old French tape, from the verb in French. It
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GC: n S: EJ – https://www.embopress.org/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1460-2075.1994.tb06341.x (last access: 19 November 2020); ASM – https://jvi.asm.org/content/78/23/12800.short (last access: 19 November 2020). N: 1. c. 1300, “shield,” diminutive of late Old English targe, from Old French targe “light shield” (12c.), from Frankish *targa “shield,” from Proto-Germanic *targ- (source also of Old High German zarga “edging, border,” German zarge “border, edge, frame,” Old English targe, Old Norse targa “shield,
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GC: n S: The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/oct/21/rent-property-letting-agent-fees-government-ban (last access: 9 November 2017); The Telegraph – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/landlord-guide/tenant-deposits-need-to-know/ (last access: 9 November 2017). N: 1. From Anglo-French tenaunt (late 13c.), Old French tenant “possessor; feudal tenant” (12c.), noun use of present participle of tenir “to hold,” from Latin tenere “hold, keep, grasp,”
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GC: adj S: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/offering-a-choice-to-the-terminally-ill.html?_r=0 (last access: 16 July 2015); http://patient.info/health/benefits-for-the-terminally-ill (last access: 16 July 2015); NAVARRO p. 996. N: What is meant by terminally ill? The definition used by the Department for Work and Pensions, when they assess a claim under the special rules, is that a person is suffering
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GC: n S: Uwasa – http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~atn/papers/artikkelit/OnTerminologySc.html (last access: 26 December 2022); Eurasiarev – https://www.eurasiareview.com/08012022-introduction-to-the-science-of-terminology-analysis/ (last access: 26 December 2022). N: 1. 1770, from German Terminologie, a hybrid coined by Christian Gottfried Schütz (1747-1832), professor of poetry and rhetoric at Jena, from Medieval Latin terminus “word, expression” (see terminus) + Greek
GC: n S: JSTOR – https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1413003.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A97e2edee6a1941f7a7fb266943142f1a&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1 (last access: 16 December 2023); Whipple – https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/28/items/crossref-pre-1923-scholarly-works/10.1037%252Fh0069483.zip&file=10.1037%252Fh0070121.pdf (last access: 16 December 2023). N: 1. c. 1400, “proof or demonstration of some fact, evidence, piece of evidence;” early 15c., “legal testimony, sworn statement of a witness,” from Old North French testimonie (Old French testimoine 11c.), from Latin
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/tetanus/en/ (last access: 19 November 2013); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tetanus/ (last access: 12 March 2021). N: 1. tetanus (n.): infectious disease, late 14c., from Latin tetanus “tetanus,” from Greek tetanos “tetanus, muscular spasm,” literally “a stretching, tension,” from teinein “to stretch” (see tenet); “so called because
GC: n S: SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/thebaine (last access: 11 December 2024); NIH – https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Thebaine (last access: 11 December 2024). N: 1. From Ancient Greek Θῆβαι (Thêbai, “Thebes”) + -ine (also -in, adjectival word-forming element, Middle English, from Old French -in/-ine, or directly from Latin suffix -inus/-ina/-inum “of, like,” forming adjectives
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GC: n S: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm (last access: 4 September 2015); EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/topic/Third-World (last access: 4 September 2015). N: 1. Former political designation originally used (1963) to describe those states not part of the first world—the capitalist, economically developed states led by the U.S. —or the second world— the communist states
GC: n S: http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/ben2417s/EUAID2.htm (last access: 25 April 2013); http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world.htm (last access: 2 September 2014). N: 1. Countries of the Third World. The term Third World was originally coined in times of the Cold War to distinguish those nations that are neither aligned with the West (NATO) nor with the
GC: npl S: ICRC – https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/un-report-threats-challenges-and-change (last access: 4 July 2024); UN – https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/repertoire/actions (last access: 4 July 2024). N: 1. Old English þreat “crowd, troop,” also “oppression, coercion, menace,” related to þreotan “to trouble, weary,” from Proto-Germanic *thrautam (cognates: Dutch verdreiten, German verdrießen “to vex”), from PIE *treud- “to