GC: n S: HISTUS – http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-kamikaze-attack-of-the-war-begins (last access: 15 November 2015); HLSUK – http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/the-pacific-war-1941-to-1945/kamikazes-and-world-war-two/ (last access: 15 November 2015). N: 1. “suicide flier,” 1945, Japanese, literally “divine wind,” from kami “god, providence, divine” (kami, Japanese for “superior, lord,” a title given to governors, also used of deities; the word was
GC: n S: SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/karyotype (last access: 21 November 2019); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1458450 (last access: 21 November 2019). N: 1. Chromosomal constitution of a cell, 1929, ultimately from Russian kariotip (1922); from “karyo-” (before vowels kary-, word-forming element used since c. 1874 in biological terms referring to cell nuclei,
GC: n S: Medscape – https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/965367-overview (last access: 13 March 2018); MAYO – http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/kawasaki-disease/home/ovc-20259782 (last access: 20 March 2017). N: 1. – Kawasaki (pn): Tomisaku Kawasaki published the first English-language report of 50 patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) in 1974. – disease (n): Early 14c., from Old French desaise (‘discomfort,
GC: npl S: http://education.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/keystone-species/ (last access: 21 February 2016); http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/67685_en.html (last access: 21 February 2016). N: 1. keystone (n): “stone in the middle of an arch, which holds up the others,” 1630s, from key (n.1) in figurative sense of “that which holds together other parts” + stone. Figurative sense is
GC: n S: MN – https://bit.ly/2FJLsTl (last access: 28 November 2018); FAO – http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4691e.pdf (page 22 and 226) (last access: 28 November 2018). N: 1. From word-forming element “kilo-” (“one thousand,” introduced in French 1795, when the metric system was officially adopted there; irregularly reduced from Greek khilioi “thousand,” from
GC: n S: NCBI – https://bit.ly/2GRFfSN (last access: 29 July 2015); MM – https://mrkmnls.co/2WjURoC (last access: 29 July 2015). N: 1. From the genus name Klebsiella. Plural: klebsiellas. Any of the genus Klebsiella of rod-shaped bacteria, which cause many diseases in humans. 2. Klebsiella (genus Klebsiella), any of a group
GC n S: KLSF – https://goo.gl/CEPwS6 (last access: 4 November 2016); KLS – https://goo.gl/6LQdHm (last access: 4 November 2016); NINDS – https://goo.gl/YKyGG0 (last access: 4 November 2016). N: 1. Kleine-Levin syndrome is an eponymous created from two family names: the german psychiatrist Willi Kleine and the American neurologist Max Levin.
GC: n S: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12534171 (last access: 27 June 2017); http://www.crownagents.com/news-and-know-how/know-how (last access: 27 June 2017). N: 1. Also knowhow, “technical expertise,” 1838, American English, from know (v.) + how (adv.). 2. Knowledge of how to do something smoothly and efficiently: expertise. 3. Expert skill, information, or body of knowledge that
GC: n S: WHO – http://whqlibdoc.who.int/monograph/WHO_MONO_8.pdf (last access: 27 July 2015); http://www.healthline.com/health/kwashiorkor#Overview1 (last access: 27 July 2015); NAVARRO p. 550. N: 1. 1935, from a native name in Ghana for the disease. 2. Kwashiorkor is a form of malnutrition that most often affects children in developing regions of the world
GC: n S: MDCN – https://goo.gl/mrvA9J (last access: 10 November 2017); SPNH – https://goo.gl/3Pobyh (last access: 8.11.2017). N: 1. “angular curvature of the spine,” 1854 (in a translation from German, where it is attested by 1783), from Greek kyphos “crooked” and the word-forming element -osis expressing state or condition, in