GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/tools/MMR_vaccine_rates_information_sheet.pdf (last access: 13 March 2021); CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html (last access: 13 March 2021). N: 1. – MMR (abbrev): MMR stands for measles, mumps and rubella. These are three different diseases which are caused by three different viruses. The vaccines given to immunise against measles,
GC: n S: https://www.psychologistworld.com/memory/mnemonics.php (last access: 1 July 2016); http://www.learningassistance.com/2006/january/mnemonics.html (last access: 1 July 2016). N: 1. Two sources for etymology: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary: Gr. ta~ mnhmonika`: cf. F. mnémonique, Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary: Gr. mnēmonikos—mnēmōn, mindful—mnasthai, to remember. 2. According to Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary: Mnemonics is the
GC: n S: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/mobbing-workplace-43426.html (last access: 10 July 2016); http://www.overcomebullying.org/mobbing.html (last access: 10 July 2016). N: 1. Present participle of mob (1680s, “disorderly part of the population, rabble,” slang shortening of mobile, mobility “common people, populace, rabble” -1670s, probably with a conscious play on nobility-, from Latin mobile vulgus “fickle
GG: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/hrh/resources/handbook/en/ (last access: 3 March 2013); _evaluation/what_is_monitoring_evaluationm_e/”>http://www.sportanddev.org/en/toolkit/monitoring_evaluation/what_is_monitoring_evaluationm_e/ (last access: 27 September 2015). N: Monitoring is is the systematic and routine collection of information from projects and programmes. Monitoring is a periodically recurring task already beginning in the planning stage of a project or programme. Monitoring
GC: n S: http://www.unicef.org/about/execboard/files/2010-7-Rev.1-ODS-English.pdf (last access: 22 April 2013); http://www.eesi.org/press-releases/view/action-on-climate-change-is-a-moral-imperative-new-u.n.-report-underscores- (last access: 2 September 2014). N: Something that must happen because it is the right thing. Tackling the issue of poverty is a moral imperative. S: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/moral-imperative (last access: 2 September 2014) SYN: S: CR: international morality
GC: n S: http://unctad.org/en/docs/ciiem1d3_en.pdf (last access: 25 April 2013); http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/united-nations-general-assembly-resolutions-calling-for-a-moratorium-on-the-use-of-the-death-penalty (last access: 2 September 2014). N: 1. moratorium (n.): 1875, originally a legal term for “authorization to a debtor to postpone payment,” from neuter of Late Latin moratorius “tending to delay,” from Latin morari “to delay,” from mora “pause, delay,”
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/gho/ncd/mortality_morbidity/en/ (last access: 7 June 2015); DORLAND. N: 1. 1721, from morbid (1650s, “of the nature of a disease, indicative of a disease,” from Latin morbidus “diseased,” from morbus “sickness, disease, ailment, illness,” from root of mori “to die) + -ity (suffix forming abstract nouns
GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-preventable-pain-pandemic (last access: 12 April 2020); Cochrane – https://www.cochrane.org/CD011056/SYMPT_impact-morphine-fentanyl-oxycodone-or-codeine-patient-consciousness-appetite-and-thirst-when-used (last access: 12 April 2020). N: 1. 1828, from French morphine or German Morphin (1816), name coined by German apothecary Friedrich Sertürner (1783-1840) in reference to Latin Morpheus (q.v.), Ovid’s name for the god of dreams,
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/mortality/en/ (last access: 26 October 2016); http://www.mortality.org/ (last access: 25 April 2013); N: 1. mid-14c., “condition of being mortal,” from Old French mortalite “massacre, slaughter; fatal illness; poverty; destruction” (12c.), from Latin mortalitem (nominative mortalitas) “state of being mortal; subjection to death,” from mortalis (see
GC: n S: NHS – http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/motion-sickness/Pages/introduction.aspx (last access: 23 November 2016); http://www.medicinenet.com/motion_sickness_sea_sickness_car_sickness/article.htm (last access: 23 November 2016). N: 1. motion (n): late 14c., “suggestion; process of moving,” from Old French mocion “movement, motion; change, alteration” (13c.), from Latin motionem (nominative motio) “a moving, a motion; an emotion,” from past participle
GC: n S: NHS – https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/moyamoya-disease (last access: ); MAYO – https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/moyamoya-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20355586 (last access: 15 March 2023). N: 1. Moyamoya disease was first described in 1957 by Japanese surgeons Takeuchi and Shimizu. The term “moyamoya” means haze, mist, cloud, smoke or vapor. Moya is もや in Japanese, in Kanji (漢字),
GC: n S: CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/about/ (last access: 6 October 2023); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/mpox/ (last access: 6 October 2023). N: 1. Clipping of monkeypox coined in 2022, chosen in order to discourage racist and stigmatizing interpretations of that word. Coined by Montreal-based RÉZO, in consultation with other Canadian organizations, in
GC: n S: NatGeo – http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140324-mudslides-natural-disasters-geology-science/ (last access: 30 October 2015). CDPH – http://www.bepreparedcalifornia.ca.gov/BEINFORMED/NATURALDISASTERS/Pages/LandslidesandMudslides.aspx (last access: 30 October 2015). N: 1. Simple combination of mud (mid-14c., cognate with and probably from Middle Low German mudde, Middle Dutch modde “thick mud,” from Proto-Germanic *mud- from PIE *(s)meu-/*mu- (Buck), found in many
GC: n S: WebMD – https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/mueller-weiss-syndrome-overview (last access: 23 July 2023); NIH – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9879050/ (last access: 23 July 2023). N: 1. Mueller (pn): Müller (right spelling). Walther Müller (1888–1949) was a German orthopedic surgeon. Müller described the “double navicular” as an osteological manifestation in a patient who developed a severe
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/hepatitisb/multiple_sclerosis/Jun_2002/en/ (last access: 5 November 2017); MAYO – https://goo.gl/NYNsef (last access: 1 November 2017); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/multiple-sclerosis/ (last access: 1 November 2017). N: 1. – sclerosis (n): “morbid hardening of the tissue,” late 14c., from Medieval Latin sclirosis “a hardness, hard tumor,” from Greek sklerosis
GC: npl’ S: WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/mumps/en/ (last access: 10 October 2015); http://fieldnotes.unicefusa.org/tag/mumps (last access: 4 September 2014); DORLAND. N: 1. type of contagious disease, c.1600, from plural of mump “a grimace” (1590s), originally a verb, “to whine like a beggar” (1580s), from Dutch mompen “to cheat, deceive,” originally probably “to
GC: n S: CNN – https://cnn.it/33bNdjS (last access: 4 August 2019); ICRC – https://bit.ly/2xmKaGs (last access: 4 August 2019). N: 1. “unlawful killing of another human being by a person of sound mind with premeditated malice,” c. 1300, murdre, earlier morþer, from Old English morðor (plural morþras) “secret killing of
GC: n S: https://www.anred.com/musdys.html (last access: 30 July 2016); http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1323298/ (last access: 30 July 2016). N: 1. muscle (n): late 14c., from Middle French muscle “muscle, sinew” (14c.) and directly from Latin musculus “a muscle,” literally “little mouse,” diminutive of mus “mouse”. So called because the shape and movement of
GC: n S: Breast Cancer – http://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/side_effects/muscle_pain (last access: 6 November); MN – http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=12008 (last access: 12 November 2014). N: 1. “muscular pain,” 1827, coined in Modern Latin (on analogy of neuralgia) from myo– “muscle” + -algia “pain.” 2. Muscular pain. myalgia: term recommended by the Medical Signs and Symptoms