See glossina.

GC: n S: NOAA – http://www.tsunami.noaa.gov/ (last access: 5 September 2014); Harvard – http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/research/tsunami.html (last access: 6 October 2024). N: 1. 1896, in reference to the one that struck Japan that year on June 15, from Japanese tsunami, from tsu “harbor” + nami “waves.” 2. A tsunami is a series

GC: n S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11424484 (last access: 13 May 2017); Mednet – http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5860 (last access: 13 May 2017). N: 1. Japanese tsutsugamushi scrub typhus mite, from tsutsuga sickness + mushi insect. First Known Use: 1906 2. One of the five major groups of acute infectious rickettsial diseases affecting man,

GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tuberculosis (last access: 24 June 2024); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441916/ (last access: 3 March 2020). N: 1. 1860, “disease characterized by tubercules,” a medical Latin hybrid, from Latin tuberculum “small swelling, pimple,” diminutive of tuber “lump” (see tuber) + -osis, a suffix of Greek origin. So

GC: n S: WebMD – https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-tularemia (last access: 27 June 2024); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430905/ (last access: 27 June 2024). N: 1. Acute infectious disease resembling plague, but much less severe. It was described in 1911 among ground squirrels in Tulare county, California (from which the name is derived), and was

GC: n S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10816510/ (last access: 27 June 2024); SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/inflammation-response (last access: 27 June 2024). N: 1. early 15c., from Latin tumor “swelling, condition of being swollen, a tumor,” from tumere “to swell” (see tumid). 2. A swollen part; swelling; protuberance. An uncontrolled, abnormal, circumscribed growth

GC: n S: FAO – https://www.fao.org/4/t0244e/t0244e00.htm (last access: 18 October 2024); NatGeoK – https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/sea-life/turtle-facts/ (last access: 18 October 2024). N: 1. “tortoise,” by mid-17c. (also tortel), originally “marine tortoise,” from a modification of French tortue, tortre (13c.) “turtle, tortoise” (often grouped with the diabolical beasts), a word of unknown origin.

GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/typhoid (last access: 14 April 2024); CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/typhoid-fever/index.html (last access: 14 April 2024). N: 1. 1800, literally “resembling typhus,” from typhus + -oid. The noun is from 1861, a shortened form of typhoid fever (1845), so called because it originally was thought to be

GC: n S: The Guardian – http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/mar/27/impact-communities-distribution-aid-typhoon-haiyan-philippines (last access: 4 July 2015); NatGeo – http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131107-typhoons-pacific-natural-disasters/ (last access: 4 July 2015). N: 1. Tiphon “violent storm, whirlwind, tornado,” 1550s, from Greek typhon “whirlwind,” personified as a giant, father of the winds, perhaps from typhein “to smoke” (see typhus), but according to

GC: S: MedlinePlus – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001363.htm (last access: 25 May 2014); Healthline – https://www.healthline.com/health/typhus (last access: 3 March 2020). N: 1. typhus (n.): acute infectious fever, usually accompanied by prostration, delirium, and small reddish spots, 1785, from medical Latin, from Greek typhos “stupor caused by fever,” literally “smoke,” from typhein “to

GC: n S: BIOL – https://bit.ly/2TD8PRc (last access: 20 November 2018); MedicineNet.com – https://bit.ly/2Kp1hxi (last access: 20 November 2018). N: 1. From ubiquit(ous) + -in (‘pertaining to’). 2. Ubiquitin (originally, Ubiquitous Immunopoeitic Polypeptide) was first identified in 1975 as an 8.5 kDa protein of unknown function expressed universally in living

GC: n S: ICRC – https://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/publications/icrc-002-4105.pdf (last access: 2 December 2014); KH – http://kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/digestive/ulcers.html (last access: 5 December 2014). N: 1. From Vulgar Latin ulcerem, from Latin ulcus (genitive ulceris) “ulcer, a sore,” figuratively “painful subject,” from PIE elk-es- “wound”. 2. A local defect, or excavation, of the surface of

GC: adj S: NCBI – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7456949/ (last access: 22 June 2024); Springer – https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12029-007-9004-9 (last access: 22 June 2024). N: 1. early 15c., from Latin ulcerosus “full of sores,” from stem of ulcus (see “ulcer”). 2. I. Characterized or caused by ulceration. Example: ulcerous lesions. II. Affected with or as

See cankerous

GC: n S: UN – https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/commentaries/9_7_2001.pdf (last access: 3 July 2024); Illinois Courts – https://www.illinoiscourts.gov/resources/232dc2ac-5f47-4184-87b2-410a78bd7b75/file (last access: 3 July 2024). N: 1. – ultrahazardous (adj): First Known Use: 1886. From the word-forming element “ultra-” [meaning “beyond” (ultraviolet) or “extremely” (ultramodern), from Latin ultra– from ultra (adv. and prep.) “beyond, on

GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs377/en/ (lasst access: 11 November 2014); ACOG – http://www.acog.org/Resources-And-Publications/Committee-Opinions/Committee-on-Gynecologic-Practice/The-Role-of-Transvaginal-Ultrasonography-in-the-Evaluation-of-Postmenopausal-Bleeding (last access: 11 November 2014). N: 1. 1960, from ultra- + sonography 1956, from comb. form of Latin sonus + -gram. Related: Sonograph (1951). 2. Use of ultrasound to produce an image or photograph of an

GC: n S: HPS – http://hps.org/hpspublications/articles/uv.html (last access: 26 October 2013); http://uv.biospherical.com/student/page3.html (last access: 1 October 2015). N: 1. ultraviolet radiation, that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum extending from the violet, or short-wavelength, end of the visible light range to the X-ray region. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is undetectable by the

GC: n S: The Telegraph – https://goo.gl/XpBgNW (last access: 9 November 2017); MTALES – https://bit.ly/2DhJk0P (last access: 9 November 2017). N: 1. Ulysses syndrome is an eponymous created from two words: Ulysses: the Latin form of the name Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s Greek epic poem The Odyssey. The Odyssey

GC: n S: The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/apr/09/umami-fifth-taste (last access: 24 December 2019); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515277/ (last access: 24 December 2019). N: 1. First Known Use of umami as a noun: 1963. As an adjective: 1978. History and Etymology for umami as a noun: Japanese, savoriness, flavor. 2. Noun: The taste

GC: npl S: http://www.bu.edu/sustainability/umbrella-species/ (last access: 21 February 2016); http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/156765/ (last access: 21 February 2016). N: 1. umbrella (n): “hand-held portable canopy which opens and folds,” c. 1600, first attested in Donne’s letters, from Italian ombrello, from Late Latin umbrella, altered (by influence of umbra) from Latin umbella “sunshade, parasol,”

GC: n S: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/issues/issues30/ (last access: 7.09.2015); http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1280.html (last access: 14 December 2013). N: 1. The underground economy involves economic transactions not measured by government statistics and ignoring government regulations and laws. The underground economy is also referred to as: ‘black market’ ‘shadow economy’, ‘parallel economy’. The underground Economy includes:

GC: n S: FAO – http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1683e/i1683e02.pdf (last access: 12 December 2013); WHO – https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2022-un-report–global-hunger-numbers-rose-to-as-many-as-828-million-in-2021 (last access: 10 August 2024). N: 1. From preposition “under” (Old English under -prep. “beneath, among, before, in the presence of, in subjection to, under the rule of, by means of,” also, as an adverb, “beneath,

GC: n S : NHS – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3345626/ (last access: 9 August 2024); FAO – https://www.fao.org/hunger/en/ (last access: 9 August 2024). N: 1. First Known Use: 1876. From under and nutrition. deficient bodily nutrition due to inadequate food intake or faulty assimilation. Called also “hyponutrition”. 2. Undernutrition is a deficiency of

GC: adj, n S: UN – http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40902 (last access: 12 April 2013); UNESCO – http://www.unescobkk.org/education/news/article/a-revolution-in-education-for-the-underprivileged/ (last access: 2 September 2014). N: 1. – underprivileged (adj.): 1896, from under + past participle of privilege (v.). Noun use (short for underprivileged persons) is attested from 1935. 2. having less money, education, etc.,