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    faculty
    GC: n S: Harvard – https://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/about-faculty (last access: 31 May 2020); AAUP – https://www.aaup.org/report/inclusion-governance-faculty-members-holding-contingent-appointments (last access: 31 May 2020). N: 1. Late 14c., “ability, opportunity, means, resources,” from Old French faculte “skill, accomplishment, learning” (14c., Modern French faculté) and directly from Latin facultatem (nominative facultas) “power, ability, capability, opportunity; sufficient number, abundance, wealth,” from *facli-tat-s,
    • adminhum
    • 19 July 2020
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    Fahr’s disease
    GC: n CT: Although the term Fahr’s disease is often used to designate either familial or sporadic basal ganglia calcification, it is unknown whether the non-familial cases represent the same disease. The term Fahr’s disease is ambiguous and should be avoided. S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1421/ (last access: 11 June 2017)
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 12 February 2018
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    faint
    GC: adj S: UNICEF – http://www.unicef.org/republicadominicana/english/reallives_16578.htm (last access: 7 June 2015) N: 1. c. 1300, “enfeebled; wearied, exhausted,” from Old French faint, feint “false, deceitful; sham, artificial; weak, faint, lazy, indolent, cowardly,” past participle of feindre “hesitate, falter, be indolent, show weakness, avoid one’s duty by pretending” (see feign). Also
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 7 June 2015
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    fair trade
    GC: n S: FT – https://bit.ly/2HFV0vn (last access: 27 December 2018); (last access: 27 December 2018); UN – https://bit.ly/2RoW0Ms (last access: 27 December 2018). N: 1. – fair (adj): Old English fæger “pleasing to the sight (of persons and body features, also of objects, places, etc.); beautiful, handsome, attractive,” of
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 15 November 2013
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    family physician
    GC: n S: https://www.familycarenetwork.com/provider-types/what-is-a-family-physician-md (last access: 17 May 2016); http://www.aafp.org/home.html (last access: 17 May 2016); http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726108/ (last access: 17 May 2016). N: 1. family (n): early 15c., “servants of a household,” from Latin familia “family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household,” thus also “members of a household, the
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 17 May 2016
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    famine
    GC: n S: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/famine (last access: 3 September 2014); http://eur-lex.europa.eu/budget/data/AP2005_VOL0/EN/Vol0_en.pdf (last access: 12 March 2013); DORLAND. N: 1. mid-14c., from Old French famine “hunger” (12c.), from Vulgar Latin famina, from Latin fames “hunger, starvation, famine,” of unknown origin. 2. Famine refers to an episode of starvation that is attended by
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 21 March 2013
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    fatal
    GC: adj S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/ (last access: 6 June 2015); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1286457914003037 (last access: 6 June 2015). N: 1. late 14c., “decreed by fate,” also “fraught with fate,” from Middle French fatal (14c.) and directly from Latin fatalis “ordained by fate, decreed, destined; destructive, deadly,” from fatum; sense of “causing
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 6 June 2015
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    fatigue
    GC: n S: MAYO – https://mayocl.in/1JPq7NK (last access: 14 June 2016); MedicineNet.com – https://bit.ly/2S8OaDh (last access: 14 June 2016). N: 1. 1660s, “that which causes weariness,” from French fatigue “weariness,” from fatiguer “to tire” (15c.), from Latin fatigare “to weary, to tire out,” originally “to cause to break down,” from
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 14 June 2016
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    feeding
    GC: n S: FAO – http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/i3481e/i3481e.pdf (last access: 1 January 2016); WHO – http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/complementary_feeding/en/ (last access: 1 January 2016). N: 1. “Act of taking food,” Old English feding, verbal noun from feed (v.). Feeding frenzy is from 1989, metaphoric extension of a phrase that had been used of sharks since
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 1 January 2016
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    female genital mutilation
    GC: n S: UNICEF – http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_58002.html (last access: 14 November 2013); WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/ (last access: 16 December 2014); https://www.gov.uk/female-genital-mutilation (last access: 17 December 2014). N: 1. . female (n): early 14c., from Old French femelle “woman, female” (12c.), from Medieval Latin femella “a female,” from Latin femella “young female,
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 19 November 2013
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    female infanticide
    GC: n S: BBC – http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/medical/infanticide_1.shtml (last access: 10 November 2013); http://www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/femaleinfanticide.html (last access: 23 August 2015). N: 1. Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of girl babies. 2. Female infanticide is more common than male infanticide, and in some countries, particularly India and China, is likely to have serious
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 19 November 2013
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    fermentation
    GC: n CT: The word “fermentation” has undergone many changes in meaning during the past hundred years. According to the derivation of the term, it signifies merely a gentle bubbling or boiling condition. The term was first applied when the only known reaction of this kind was the production of
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 28 January 2021
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    fetus
    GC: n S: Yale – http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/7/82.07.08.x.html (last access: 16 May 2016); NCBI – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12858480 (last access: 16 May 2016). N: 1. late 14c., “the young while in the womb or egg” (tending to mean vaguely the embryo in the later stage of development), from Latin fetus (often, incorrectly, foetus) “the
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 16 May 2016
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    fever
    GC: n S: WebMD – http://www.webmd.com/drug-medication/otc-pain-relief-10/cold-flu-fever-reducers (last access: 7 December 2014); DORLAND p. 690-695. N: 1. earlier also feaver, late Old English fefor, fefer “fever, temperature of the body higher than normal,” from Latin febris “fever,” related to fovere “to warm, heat,” probably from PIE root dhegh- “burn” (cognates: Gothic
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 7 December 2014
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    filariasis
    GC: n S: NMCTH.EDU – http://www.nmcth.edu/images/gallery/Editorial/Hbrpeajha.pdf (last access: 17 December 2015); NEWS-MEDICAL.NET – http://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-Filariasis.aspx (last access: 17 December 2015). N: 1. From Latin filum which means ‘thread’. From Greek osis which means ‘condition’. 2. Filariasis, a group of infectious disorders caused by threadlike nematodes of the superfamily Filarioidea, that invade
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 11 December 2015
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    fire
    See forest fire
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 25 October 2017
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    first aid
    GC: n S: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/firstaid.html (last access: 6 October 2015); http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/ (last access: 6 October 2015). N: 1. First Aid: The immediate but temporary care given on site to the victims of an accident or sudden illness in order to avert complications, lessen suffering, and sustain life until competent services or
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 13 April 2013
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    first-aid kit
    GC: n S: ARC – http://www.redcross.org/prepare/location/home-family/get-kit/anatomy (last access: 4 November 2014); http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/home/firstaid_kit.html (last access: 6 August 2015). N: 1. Compound term. First: from Old English fyrst “foremost,” superlative of fore; from Proto-Germanic furisto-. Aid: from Old French aide, earlier aiudha “aid, help, assistance” (9c.), from Late Latin adjuta. Kit: late
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 4 November 2014
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    flashback
    GC: n S: DrugWise – https://www.drugwise.org.uk/flashbacks/ (last access: 25 April 2020); Medscape – https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/288154-overview (last access: 25 April 2020). N: 1. 1903 in reference to fires in engines or furnaces, from verbal phrase (1902), from flash (v.) + back (adv.). Movie plot device sense is from 1916. The hallucinogenic drug sense is
    • adminhum
    • 26 April 2020
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    flea
    GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/resources/vector237to261.pdf (last access: 28 February 2016); https://www.hastings.gov.uk/environment_planning/animals_pests/pest/fleas/ (last access: 28 February 2016). N: 1. Old English flea “flea,” from Proto-Germanic *flauhaz (cognates: Old Norse flo, Middle Dutch vlo, German Floh), perhaps related to Old English fleon “to flee,” with a notion of “the jumping parasite,”
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 27 March 2015
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    floating dock
    GC: n S: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2217251.stm (last access: 31 January 2014); http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wld/instreamworks/moorings.htm (last access: 28 July 2015). N: 1. Floating dry docks have the initial advantage that they can be built and fully equipped in shipyard and factory conditions, in which their construction is not subject to unforeseen hazards arising from weather
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 31 January 2014
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    flocculation
    GC: n S: http://www.thewatertreatmentplants.com/flocculation.html (last access: 7 August 2015); http://water.me.vccs.edu/courses/ENV110/Lesson4_print.htm (last access: 7 August 2015). N: 1. 1885, from flocculate (1877, from flocculus; 1799, from Modern Latin diminutive of Latin floccus “flock of wool”) + -ate (word-forming element used in forming nouns from Latin words ending in -atus, -atum; those
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 21 November 2013
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    flood
    GC: n S: http://www.ready.gov/floods (last access: 15 December 2013); http://eschooltoday.com/natural-disasters/floods/what-is-a-flood.html (last access: 25 August 2015). N: 1. Old English flod “a flowing of water, flood, an overflowing of land by water, Noah’s Flood; mass of water, river, sea, wave,” from Proto-Germanic *floduz “flowing water, deluge” (cognates: Old Frisian flod, Old
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 18 November 2013
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    fluoxetine
    Grammatical category: n Term sources: TERMIUM PLUS; EncBrit; Drugs.com. Notes: 1. Chemical formula: C17H18F3NO. 2. Active ingredient sold under the name Prozac. Prozac (n.): 1985, proprietary name for fluoxetine hydrochloride, developed early 1970s by Lilly Industries. 3. The first highly specific serotonin uptake inhibitor. It is used as an antidepressant
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 14 November 2013
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