GC: n S: YH – http://www.yourhormones.info/hormones/glucagon.aspx (last access: 3 November 2016); MEDLP – https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a682480.html (last access: 5 November 2016) N: 1. 1923, from gluco– + Greek agon, present participle of agein “to lead”. 2. Mayo clinic provides a second definition: Glucagon belongs to the group of medicines called hormones. It
GC: n S: MedicineNet.com – http://bit.do/eBW6J (last access: 29 November 2018); ANNFAMMED – http://bit.do/eBW6Y (last access: 29 November 2018). N: 1. 1520s, from Late Latin gonorrhoia, from Greek gonos “seed” + rhoe “flow,” from rhein “to flow” (from PIE root *sreu- “to flow”). Mucus discharge was mistaken for semen. In
GC: n S: http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/gov.htm (last access: 26 February 2013); http://www.goodgovernance.org.au/about-good-governance/what-is-good-governance/ (last access: 3 September 2014). N: 1. Good governance is about the processes for making and implementing decisions. It’s not about making ‘correct’ decisions, but about the best possible process for making those decisions. 2. Good decision-making processes, and therefore
GC: n S: Business Dictionary – http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/property.html (last access: 5 November 2013); TERMIUM PLUS. N: 1. “property,” late 13c., from plural of good (n.), which had the same sense in Old English. Meaning “saleable commodities” is mid-15c.; colloquial sense of “stolen articles” is from 1900; hence figurative use, “evidence of
GC: n S: http://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/basics/gout.html (last access: 11 June 2015); DORLAND p. 799. N: 1. Middle English goute, from Anglo-French gute drop, gout, from Latin gutta drop First Known Use: 13th century. 2. A metabolic disease marked by a painful inflammation of the joints, deposits of urates in and around the
GC: n S: GlobHum – http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/countryprofile/united-states (last access: 5 November 2015); GovUK – https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/humanitarian-emergencies (last access: 5 November 2015). N: 1. late 14c., “act of governing or ruling;” 1550s, “system by which a thing is governed” (especially a state), from Old French governement “control, direction, administration” (Modern French gouvernement), from governer
GC: n S: NCBI – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862821 (last access: 12 February 2016); Biomed – http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BI108/BI108_2004_Groups/Group04/Rejection_overview.htm (last access: 12 February 2016). N: 1. “shoot inserted into another plant,” late 15c. alteration of Middle English graff (late 14c.), from Old French graife “grafting knife, carving tool; stylus, pen,” from Latin graphium “stylus,” from
GC: n S: THCO – https://bit.ly/2JISiIl (last access: 2 November 2019); Medscape – https://bit.ly/2PILzSu (last access: 2 November 2019). N: 1. Gram (pn): The discoverer of the stain was Hans Christian Joachim Gram, who was born in Denmark in 1853. – stain (n): 1560s, “act of staining,” from stain (v.).
GC: n S: WHO – https://bit.ly/2pDd8BU (last access: 2 November 2019); NIH – https://bit.ly/34l1ACf (last access: 2 November 2019). N: 1. Gram-negative (adj): gram-negative = not holding the purple dye when stained by Gram’s stain —used chiefly of bacteria. First Known Use of gram-negative: 1907. – bacterium (n): New Latin,
GC: n S: Medscape – https://wb.md/2qZdGT0 (last access: 2 November 2019); NCBI – https://bit.ly/33bnkQG (last access: 2 November 2019). N: 1. – Gram-positive (adj): gram-positive = holding the purple dye when stained by Gram’s stain —used chiefly of bacteria. First Known Use of gram-positive: 1907. – bacterium (n): New Latin,
GC: n S: Marinsight – http://www.marineinsight.com/marine-navigation/how-to-do-intentional-grounding-or-beaching-of-a-ship/ (8 July 2017) Cruisworld -; http://www.cruisingworld.com/how/what-do-when-you-run-aground (last access: 8 July 2017). N: 1. Origin of “ground”: before 900; (noun) Middle English grownd, grund, Old English grund; cognate with Dutch grond, German Grund; (verb) Middle English grundien, grownden “to set on a foundation, establish,” derivative of
GC: n S: UNICEF – http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/education-indicators-technical-guidelines-en_0.pdf (last access: 10 June 2020); CHILDWEL – https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/outofhome/group-residential-care/ (last access: 10 June 2020). N: 1. – group (n): From 1690s, originally an art criticism term, “assemblage of figures or objects forming a harmonious whole in a painting or design,” from French groupe“cluster, group” (17c.), from Italian gruppo,
GC: n S: NIH – https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001176.htm (last access: 22 October 2015); http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/growth-hormone-athletic-performance-and-aging (last access: 22 October 2015). N: 1. – growth (n): 1550s, “stage in growing,” from grow + -th (2), on model of health, stealth, etc. Compare Old Norse groði, from groa “to grow.” Meaning “that which has grown”
GC: n S: MEDLP – https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000684.htm (last access: 2 April 2017); WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/guillain-barre-syndrome/en/ (last access: 9 March 2018) N: 1. – Guillain (pn): Georges Guillain (1876–1961) and on 1927 he used the name “Guillain–Barré syndrome” during a neurology congress. – Barré (pn): On 1916, Jean Alexander Barré (1880–1967) met
GC: n S: http://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/2005-2006/DXXAG_D.htm (last access: 17 January 2015); http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15350697 (last access: 17 January 2015). DORLAND. N: 1. gynoid (adj): From the Greek gyno, gynaikos meaning woman + -oid, a word-forming element from Latinized form of Greek -oeides, from eidos “form. Gyneco, gyno, gyn, and gyne are combining forms meaning