GC: n S: MedicineNet.com – http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7036 (last access: 29 November 2013); GDT; TERMIUM PLUS; DTMe. N: 1. Dalton: in reference to a system of school education designed by Helen Parkhurst, 1920, from Dalton, Massachusetts, U.S., where it was first adopted. For Daltonism see color blindness. color blindness (n.): 1844, replacing

GC: n S: http://www.unep.org/PDF/dmb/UNEP_Gaza_EA.pdf (last access: 22 April 2013); http://www.fema.gov/preliminary-damage-assessment-reports (last access: 3 September 2014). N: Preliminary but fairly accurate onsite evaluation of damage or loss caused by an accident or natural event before filing a formal claim or disaster declaration. Damage assessment records the extent of damage, what can

GC: n S: WHO – https://bit.ly/2WhCgO3 (last access: 2 June 2019); MEDNT – https://bit.ly/2C4YW5h (last access: 2 June 2019). N: 1. “incapacity of distinguishing or perceiving sounds,” late 14c., defnesse, from deaf + -ness. 2. Deafness, partial or total inability to hear. The two principal types of deafness are conduction

GC: n S: HARVARD – https://www.gse.harvard.edu/about/dean  (last access: 7 Jun 2020); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4013870 (last access: 7 Jun 2020). N: 1. “Head of a group of ten” (early 14c. as alcofol), from Old French deien, from Late Latin decanus “head of a group of 10 monks in a monastery”. Meaning

GC: n S: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/28/syria-death-toll_n_5626482.html (last access: 3 September 2014); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631069107003770 (last access: 3 may 2017). N: 1. death (n): Old English deað “death, dying, cause of death,” in plural, “ghosts,” from Proto-Germanic *dauthuz (source also of Old Saxon doth, Old Frisian dath, Dutch dood, Old High German tod, German Tod,

GC: n S: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/council/decision-making-process?lang=en (last access: 3 September 2014); http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/institutional_affairs/treaties/amsterdam_treaty/a29000_en.htm (last access: 3 September 2014); http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2002:0247:FIN:EN:PDF (last access: 26 April 2013). N: A Union humanitarian aid operation can be initiated at the request of the Commission, NGOs, international organisations, Member States or beneficiary countries. The Commission has three separate decision-making

GC: n S: UN – http://www.un.org/en/decolonization/ (last access: 11 December 2014) N: 1. 1853 in political sense, American English, from de- + colonization. Earlier as a medical term. 2. It is the process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country. 3. Décolonisation was used by a french writer

GC: n S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMHT0023508/ (last access: 26 February 2018); https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/congenital-anomaly (last access: 26 February 2018). N: 1. Early 15c., from Middle French defect and directly from Latin defectus “failure, revolt, falling away,” noun use of past participle of deficere “to fail, desert,” from de “down, away” + combining

GC: n S: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/233605314_The_effect_of_defoliation_environment_on_primary_growth_allocation_and_secondary_tiller_recruitment_of_two_bunchgrasses (last access: 13 July 2015); http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/83/4/423 (last access: 13 July 2015). N: 1. 1650s, noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin defoliare “shed leaves,” from de- (see de-) + folium “leaf” (see folio). 2. Normal or pathological loss of leaves.The term “defoliation” can

See SIERTERM: https://sierterm.es/content/deforestation

GC: n S: NIMH – http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml (last access: 21 November 2014); DORLAND p. 484. N: 1. “act of misleading someone,” early 15c.; as a form of mental derangement, 1550s, from Latin delusionem (nominative delusio) “a deceiving,” noun of action from past participle stem of deludere 2. The Online Etymology Dictionary

GC: n S: The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/25/the-dementia-that-can-be-cured (last access: 1 November 2020);  HLN – https://www.healthline.com/health/dementia (last access: 5 November 2020). N: 1. It was first recorded in 1806, comes from the Latin word dementia which means “madness, insanity”, literally “a being out of one’s mind”. It existed an earlier Englished form

GC: n S: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/25/us-korea-dmz-tourism-idUSBRE99O0SP20131025 (last access: 15 December 2013); http://www.atha.se/blog/havens-or-targets-would-syria-benefit-humanitarian-safe-zone (last access: 18 May 2016). N: 1. A defined area in which the stationing, or concentrating of military forces, or the retention or establishment of military installations of any description, is prohibited. 2. demilitarized zone: term and definition standardized by

GC: n S: http://water.me.vccs.edu/courses/ENV115/lesson11.htm (last access: 11 December 2013); http://www.rwlwater.com/demineralization/ (last access: 27 July 2015). N: 1. The reduction of the content of dissolved salts or inorganic substances in water by a physical, chemical or biological process. (Definition standardized by ISO). 2. demineralization: term standardized by ISO. 3. Ion exchange

GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/dengue/en/ (last access: 6 Sedptember 2015); MEDLP – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html, http://www.merriam-webster.com/medlineplus/dengue (last access: 7 November 2013); DORLAND p. 2061. N: 1. 1828, from West Indian Spanish dengue, from an African source, perhaps Swahili dinga “seizure, cramp,” form influenced by Spanish dengue “prudery” (perhaps because sufferers walk

GC: n S: ICRC – https://bit.ly/2AYpJ5z (last access: 11 November 2018); UCIS – https://bit.ly/2zcxeF1 (last access: 11 November 2018); CAIRN – https://bit.ly/2PZ4Tvv (last access: 11 November 2018). N: 1. Early 15c., denunciacioun, “act of declaring or stating something” (a sense now obsolete), from Latin denunciacionem / denuntiationem (nominative denuntiatio), noun

GC: n S: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001089/108933e.pdf (last access: 12 April 2013); http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/3/1/4/1/7/p314179_index.html?phpsessid=9f10e6d0507ba440edcb659023928a84 (last access: 3 September 2014). N: science of moral duty, 1826, from Greek deont-, comb. form of deon “that which is binding, duty,” neuter present participle of dei “is binding;” + -ology. Said to have been coined by Bentham. Related:

See DNA

GC: n S: USAGov – https://bit.ly/1jvrprB (last access: 17 February 2017); FL – https://bit.ly/2EpaAsC (last access: 17 February 2017). N: 1. 1590s, from Middle French déportation, from Latin deporationem (nominative deportatio), noun of action from past participle stem of deportare. 2. The lawful removal from a country of a prohibited

See deportee

GC: n S: SAB – https://bit.ly/2C8ooIK (last access: 4 March 2017); N – https://bit.ly/2SGgNbI (last access: 4 March 2017). N: 1. – deportee (n): 1895; from “deport” (“banish,” 1640s, from French déporter, from Latin deportare “carry off, transport, banish, exile,” from de- in its sense of “off, away” + portare

GC: n S: UNICEF – http://www.unicef.org/pakistan/reallives_9501.htm (last access: 24 July 2016); UN – http://www.un.org/en/events/desertification_decade/ (last access: 24 July 2016). N: 1. wasteland,” early 13c., from Old French desert (12c.) “desert, wilderness, wasteland; destruction, ruin,” from Late Latin desertum (source of Italian diserto, Old Provençal dezert, Spanish desierto), literally “thing abandoned”

GC: n S: FAO – http://www.fao.org/docrep/V0265E/V0265E00.htm (last access: 7 July 2016); WHO – http://www.who.int/globalchange/ecosystems/desert/en/ (last access: 7 July 2016). N: 1. 1973, from desert (n.1) + -fication. In French, désertisation is attested from 1968. 2. Desertification, also called desertization, the process by which natural or human causes reduce the biological

GC: nf S: ADDC – https://www.addictioncenter.com/treatment/drug-and-alcohol-detox/ (last access: 15 August 2021); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64115/ (last access: 15 August 2021). N: 1. – detoxification (n): 1905, of substances, “action of depriving of poisonous qualities;” 1971, “removal of addictive substances from the body,” originally in reference to habitual heavy drinkers of alcohol;