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: 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,
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
GC: n CT: But in people with Wilson’s disease, copper isn’t eliminated properly and instead accumulates, possibly to a life-threatening level. When diagnosed early, Wilson’s disease is treatable, and many people with the disorder live normal lives. S: MAYO – http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/wilsons-disease/basics/definition/con-20043499 (last access: 18 May 2017) N: 1. – Wilson
GC: n S: WebMD – https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-227/witch-hazel (last access: 3 December 2023); Chestnuth – https://chestnutherbs.com/witch-hazel-bloomoogling-unusual-male-parts-explosive-seeds-and-medicinal-uses/ (last access: 3 December 2023). N: 1. 1540s, probably from Old English wice “Applied generally or vaguely to various trees having pliant branches” [OED], from wican “to bend” (from PIE root *weik- (2) “to bend, to
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/terminology/withdrawal/en/ (last access: 9 December 2014); MD – https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/819502-overview?form=fpf (last access: 4 September 2024). N: 1. withdrawal (adj): 1820s, “act of taking back,” also “retraction of a statement, from withdraw + –al. syndrome (n): “a number of symptoms occurring together,” 1540s, from medical Latin, from
GC: n S: MAYO – http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/wolff-parkinson-white-syndrome/home/ovc-20265961 (last access: 19 May 2017); Medscape – https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/159222-overview (last access: 8 June 2018). N: 1. – Wolff (pn): Louis Wolff was an American cardiologist (1898 – 1972). – Parkinson (pn): John Parkinson was an English cardiologist (1885 – 1976). – White (pn): Dr Paul
GC: adj S: CoursWash – https://courses.washington.edu/conj/bess/differentiation/differentiation.htm (last access: 19 June 2016); MedDict – http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/wolffian+duct (last access: 19 June 2016). N: 1. From last name of Kaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), German anatomist and embryologist + English -an. 2. Discovered or first described by Kaspar Friedrich Wolff. 3. Kaspar Friedrich Wolff was
GC: n S: http://radiopaedia.org/articles/wolffian-duct (last access: 19 June 2016); https://courses.washington.edu/conj/bess/differentiation/differentiation.htm (last access: 19 June 2016). N: 1. Wolffian (adj): From last name of Kaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), German anatomist and embryologist + English -an. First Known Use: 1876. duct (n): 1640s, “course, direction,” from Latin ductus “a leading,” past participle
GC: adj S: MedAcademic – http://medicine.academic.ru/50425/wormian (last access: 19 June 2016); Elsevier – http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2211568413000028?via=sd (last access: 19 June 2016). N: 1. Eponym from last name of Ole Worm. Worm \ˈvȯrm\, Ole (Latin Olaus Wormius) (1588–1654), Danish physician. Worm was a professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen and personal
GC: n S: TFD – http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/wormian+bone (last access: 19 June 2016); NCBI – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23959948 (last access: 19 June 2016). N: 1. – Wormian (adj): Eponym from last name of Ole Worm. Worm \ˈvȯrm\, Ole (Latin Olaus Wormius) (1588–1654), Danish physician. Worm was a professor of medicine at the University of
GC: n S: The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/400-year-old-ship-found-off-portuguese-coast-cascais (last access: 1 August 2024); Reuters – https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/wreck-ancient-roman-cargo-ship-found-off-coast-near-rome-2023-07-28/ (last access: 1 August 2024). N: 1. early 13c., “goods cast ashore after a shipwreck, flotsam,” from Anglo-French wrec, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse *wrek “wreck, flotsam” (cognates: Norwegian, Icelandic rek), related