GC: n S: AJADD – https://bit.ly/2JVP4Ae (last access: 11 November 2018); INDAWIJ – https://bit.ly/2PSLoEH (last access: 11 November 2018). N: 1. From prefix xeno- (from Ancient Greek ξένος xénos, “alien”) and adjective biotic (from Ancient Greek βιωτικός biōtikós, “of life”, from βίος bíos, “life”). Adjective and noun. 2. A xenobiotic

GC: n S: UNESCO – https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000142590 (last access: 1 June 2024); Eur-lex – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/fight-against-racism-and-xenophobia.html (last access: 1 June 2024). N: 1. 1903, from xeno- “foreign, strange” + -phobia “fear.” Earlier (c.1884) it meant “agoraphobia.” 2. Origin of XENOPHOBIA: New Latin. First Known Use: 1903. 3. Fear and hatred of strangers

GC: n S: FDA – https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/xenotransplantation (last access: 2 June 2024); Elsevier – https://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-cirugia-espanola-english-edition–436-articulo-clinical-xenotransplantation-closer-reality-literature-S2173507717300297 (last access: 2 June 2024). N: 1. From xeno- (Late Latin, from Greek, from xenos stranger, guest, host) and -transplantation (Middle English transplaunten, from Late Latin transplantare, from Latin trans- + plantare to plant). First Known

GC: n S: WHO – http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/133705/1/WHO_NMH_NHD_EPG_14.4_eng.pdf (last access: 10 February 2016); MN – http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=6040 (last access: 10 February 2016). N: 1. Late Latin, from Greek xērophthalmia, from xēr- xer- + ophthalmia ophthalmia; circa 1656. 2. Night blindness is an early sign of vitamin A deficiency, followed by abnormal dryness of

GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs100/en/ (last access: 6 December 2013) ; NHS – http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Yellow-fever/Pages/Introduction.aspx (last access: 7 August 2015). N: 1. – yellow (adj): Middle English yelwe, from Old English geolu, geolwe, “yellow,” from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz (source also of Old Saxon, Old High German gelo, Middle Dutch ghele, Dutch geel,

GC: n S: CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/yellow-fever/index.html (last access: 15 September 2024); SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/yellow-fever-virus (last access: 15 September 2024). N: 1. – yellow (adj): Middle English yelwe, from Old English geolu, geolwe, “yellow,” from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz (source also of Old Saxon, Old High German gelo, Middle Dutch ghele, Dutch geel,

GC: n S: Healthlink –http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthfiles/hfile77.stm (last access: 28 February 2013); HNY – https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/yersiniosis/fact_sheet.htm (last access: 28 February 2016). N: 1. Eponym from Alexandre Yersin, in full Alexandre-Émile-John Yersin, also called Alexandre-John-Émile Yersin (born Sept. 23, 1863, Lavaux, near Aubonne, Switz.—died March 1, 1943, Nha Trang, Annam, Indochina, now in Vietnam),

See Zika virus disease

See Zika virus disease

GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/zika/en/ (last access: 19 February 2016); WebMD – http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/zika-virus-symptoms-prevention (last access: 19 February 2016). N: 1. In 1947, scientists researching yellow fever placed a rhesus macaque in a cage in the Zika Forest (zika meaning “overgrown” in the Luganda language), near the East African Virus

GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/csr/disease/zika/case-definition/en/ (last access: 1 February 2018); MAYO – https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/zika-virus/symptoms-causes/syc-20353639 (last access: 1 February 2018). N: 1. – Zika (pn): Name of a forest in Uganda. “Zika” as a noun is a virus, by 1952, discovered 1947 and named for the Zika Forest of Uganda, where

GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/zoonoses/en/ (last access: 4 December 2014); NIH – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/animaldiseasesandyourhealth.html (last access: 8 December 2014). N: 1. zoonosis (n): “disease communicated to humans by animals,” plural zoonoses, 1876, from zoo- (word-forming element meaning “animal, living being,” from comb. form of Greek zoion “an animal,” literally “a

GC: n S: Mycol – http://www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au/Mycoses/Subcutaneous/Zygomycosis/ (last access: 31 May 2016); CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/diseases/mucormycosis/ (last access: 31 May 2016). N: 1. Greek zygon + mykes, fungus. 2. The term zygomycosis describes in the broadest sense any infection due to a member of the Zygomycetes. These are primitive, fast growing, terrestrial,