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GC: n S: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_PRES-08-207_en.htm?locale=en (last access: 25 April 2013); http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/humanitarian-aid (last access: 4 September 2014). N: The humanitarian and disaster-relief efforts of the UN system are overseen and facilitated by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), led by the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator. Among its many
GC: n S: SDir – https://bit.ly/2VHgXUI (last access: 1 May 2019); NCBI – https://bit.ly/2DG2Ogm (last access: 1 May 2019). N: 1. From Greek pseudes (ψευδής) “false” and -monas (μονάς/μονάδος) “a single unit”, which can mean false unit. 2. Pseudomonas: A genus of motile, polar flagellate, nonsporeforming, strictly aerobic bacteria (family
GC: n S: WHO – https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/204417/9789241565189_eng.pdf?sequence=1 (last access: 24 November 2020); NPF – https://www.psoriasis.org/about-psoriasis/ (last access: 24 November 2020). N: 1. 1680s, from medical Latin psoriasis, in Late Latin “mange, scurvy,” it comes from Greek psoriasis “being itchy,” from psorian “to have the itch,” from psora “itch, mange, scab,” and related to
GC: n S: CAMBRIDGE – https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/discontinuing-psychotropic-drug-treatment/249FF79A648ABD3A77675A337C9043F4 (last access: 20 April 2021); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850374/ (last access: 20 April 2021). N: 1. – psychotropic (adj): It appears in 1956, “affecting a person’s mental state,” especially “of or pertaining to drugs that affect mental states,” from psycho- + -tropic, from Greek tropos
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/about/role/en/ (last access: March 2013); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00333506 (last access: 4 September 2014). N: 1. public health, the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health, sanitation, personal hygiene, control of infection, and organization of health services. From the normal human
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GC: n S: MAYO – https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/kidney-infection/symptoms-causes/syc-20353387 (last access: 30 November 2019); DRUGS – https://www.drugs.com/health-guide/pyelonephritis.html (last access: 30 November 2019). N: 1. From “pyelo-” (before vowels pyel-, medical word-forming element, 19c., from Greek pyelos “oblong trough, bathing-tub,” used for “pelvis.”) and “nephritis” (“inflammation of the kidneys,” 1570s, from Late Latin nephritis,
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GG: n S: http://www.drhealth.md/pyorrhoea/ (last access: 4 September 2014); http://www.medindia.net/homeremedies/pyorrhea.asp (last access: 8 October 2015). N: 1. : Two meanings: a discharge of pus. an advanced form of chronic periodontitis marked especially by the discharge of pus from the alveoli—called also Riggs’ disease. 2. In Dentistry, the most prevalent periodontal
GC: n S: http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/medical/pyramidal_muscle.htm (last access: 21 November 2014); NCBI – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19159363 (last access: 21 November 2014); http://www.scopemed.org/?mno=37228 (last access: 21 November 2014). N: 1. pyramidal (adj): From pyramid, 1550s (earlier in Latin form piramis, late 14c.), from French pyramide (Old French piramide “obelisk, stela,” 12c.), from Latin pyramides, plural
GC: n S: NCBI – https://goo.gl/Hpgaee (last access: 26 October 2017); PT – https://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/pyromania (last access: 31 October 2017). N: 1. Term composed of “pyro-” (word-forming element form meaning “fire,” from Greek pyro-) and “mania” (from Late Latin mania “insanity, madness,” from Greek mania “madness, frenzy; enthusiasm, inspired frenzy; mad
GC: n S: DB – http://www.differencebetween.net/science/health/disease-health/differences-between-an-arsonist-and-a-pyromaniac/ (last access: 14 November 2017); PSYCHIAT – http://psychiatric-disorders.com/personality-disorders/impulse-control-disorders-pyromania/ (last access: 14 November 2017). N: 1. adjective. 1855, from pyromania (1840, from pyro- “fire” + mania “madness, frenzy.”). As a noun from 1861. 2. Mental illness in which a person feels a strong wish to