GC: n S: SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/cortisone (last access: 20 November 2023); NCBI – https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Cortisone (last access: 20 November 2023). N: 1. “steroid hormone found in the adrenal cortex,” manufactured synthetically as an anti-inflammatory, 1949, coined by its discoverer, Dr. Edward C. Kendall, from a shortening of its chemical name, 17-hydroxy-11
GC: “n” S: PBM – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12011289?dopt=Abstract (last access: 17 October 2016); MDS – https://goo.gl/KOQa4s (last access: 17 October 2016); INDN – https://goo.gl/gTbMmI (last access: 17 October 2016). N: 1. Cotard’s syndrome: eponymous created from Parisian neurologist.’s name Jules Cotard (1840-1889). Dr. Jules Cotard (1840-1889) was a Parisian neurologist who first
GC: n S: TRINITY.EDU – http://www.trinity.edu/org/tricksters/TrixWay/current/Vol%203/Vol3_1/Durwin.htm (last access: 4 December 2015); HUFFINGTONPOST – http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/25/phobias-how-buttons-garlic-chickens-and-clowns-can-leave-us-fearing-for-our-lives-pictured_n_1623635.html (last access: 4 December 2015). N: 1. This term is said to be built from Greek kolon “limb,” with some supposed sense of “stilt-walker,” hence “clown” + -phobia (from Latin -phobia and directly from Greek -phobia
GC: n S: Chron – http://work.chron.com/job-description-clerk-courts-12762.html (last access: 20 October 2017); PR – https://public.resource.org/scribd/8763902.pdf (last access: 20 October 2017). N: 1. Middle English, from Anglo-French clerk & Old English cleric, clerc, both from Late Latin clericus, from Late Greek klērikos, from Greek klēros lot, inheritance (in allusion to Deuteronomy 18:2),
GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1 (last access: 8 October 2022); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7809683/ (last access: 8 October 2022). N: 1. COVID-19: The term “COVID-19” was formed using elements of the words coronavirus, disease and 2019. 2. COVID-19, in full coronavirus disease 2019, highly contagious respiratory illness, the cause of the COVID-19
GC: n S: BBC – https://bbc.in/2V5vTIs (last access: 22 February 2019); Techopedia – https://bit.ly/2V4IADd (last access: 19 February 2019). N: 1. crackers: These individuals are generally responsible for breaking into networks, cracking passwords in websites and programs, and generally causing havoc throughout the Internet. They are mostly malicious teens who
GC: n S: SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/creatinine (last access: 12 January 2024); APS – https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physrev.2000.80.3.1107(last access: 12 January 2024). N: 1. “alkaline substance obtained by the action of acids on creatine,” by 1847, from creatine + chemical suffix -ine (2). creatine (n): Organic substance obtained from muscular tissue, by 1843, from French creatine, from Greek kreas “flesh, meat”
GC: n S: FTC – https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/credit-finance (last access: 27 November 2024); Investop – https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/credit.asp (last access: 27 November 2024). N: 1. 1540s, “belief, faith,” from French crédit (15c.) “belief, trust,” from Italian credito, from Latin creditum “a loan, thing entrusted to another,” neuter past participle of credere “to trust, entrust,
GC: n S: NIH – http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cjd/detail_cjd.htm (last access: 21 August 2014); WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/creutzfeldtjakob_syndrome/en/ (last access: 21 August 2014). N: 1. Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Until the 1990s, three forms of CJD were recognized: sporadic disease, which accounted for the majority of cases and was of
GC: n S: ICRC – https://bit.ly/2yFmqhK (last access: 5 August 2019); OHCHR – https://bit.ly/2NNGTuP (last access: 5 August 2019). N: 1. From Latin crimen fault, accusation, crime. 2. Crime, the intentional commission of an act usually deemed socially harmful or dangerous and specifically defined, prohibited, and punishable under criminal law.
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GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs208/en/ (last access: 3 September 2016); https://www.gov.uk/guidance/crimean-congo-haemorrhagic-fever-origins-reservoirs-transmission-and-guidelines (last access: 3 September 2016). N: 1. CCHF was first described in the Crimea in 1944, among soldiers and agricultural workers, and in 1969 it was recognised that the virus causing the disease was identical to a virus
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs208/en/ (last access: 4 September 2016); PHAC – http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/crim-congo-eng.php (last access: 4 September 2016). N: 1. CCHF was first described in the Crimea in 1944, among soldiers and agricultural workers, and in 1969 it was recognised that the virus causing the disease was identical to
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GC: n S: https://books.google.es/books?id=k8c4AAAAIAAJ (last access: 11 October 2015); https://books.google.es/books?isbn=1878205153 (last access: 11 October 2015); DTMe (last access: 11 October 2015). N: 1. – crippled (adj): From the past participle of verb cripple (mid-13c., “to move slowly,” from cripple (n.). Meaning “make a cripple of, lame” is from early 14c.
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GC: n S: NYTIMES – https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html (last access: 12 November 2024); NMF – http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/facts/crow_vs_raven.html (last access: 12 November 2024). N: 1. crow, general common name of birds of the genus Corvus (the larger sort being sometimes called ravens), Old English crawe, which is held to be imitative of the bird’s
GC: n S: NMN – http://www.news-medical.net/news/2008/05/10/38244.aspx (last access: 4 November 2016); MD – http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/329255-treatment (last access: 4 November 2016). N: 1. From cryo- (word-forming element meaning “very cold, freezing”, from Latinized form of Greek kryo-, combined form of kryos, “icy cold”, related to kryeros, “chilling” + globulin (a type of
GC: n S: SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1471492213001554 (last access: last access: 15 August 2024); SL – https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-16334-2_6 (last access: 15 August 2024). N: 1. – culicine (n): another word for culex (in British English). culex (n): any mosquito of the genus Culex, such as C. pipiens, the common mosquito (in British
GC: n S: UNESCO – http://www.unescocenterforpeace.org/programs/builders-of-the-universe-program-bup/imun/(last access: 25 August 2015); UNICEF – http://www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/index_51636.html (last access: 25 August 2015). N: Cultural exchange programs expose students to people from different cultural, religious, geographic and socio-economic backgrounds and in so doing provide the opportunity for students to develop a greater understanding of diversity
GC: n S: UNESCO – http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001822/182210e.pdf (last access: 22 March 2013); https://www.kent.ac.uk/cewl/documents/external/talking-cultures/W2/Talking%20Cultures%20Week%202%20Unit%201%20-%20Cultural%20Identity1%20-%20handout.pdf (last access: 3 September 2014). N: Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as she/he is influenced by her/his belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity
GC: n S: NHS – http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cushings-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx (last access: 1 June 2017); MEDLP – https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000410.htm (last access: 7 March 2018). N: 1. – Cushing (pn): Harvey Williams Cushing was an American neurosurgeon (1869 – 1939). – syndrome (n): “A number of symptoms occurring together,” 1540s, from medical Latin, from Greek syndrome