GC: n S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9858395/ (1 September 2024); HLN – https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/stockholm-syndrome (1 September 2024). N: 1. The term takes its name from a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1973. The robber took four employees of the bank into the vault with him and kept them hostage for
GC: n S: SMH – http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-storm-12-areas-declared-natural-disaster-zones-20150422-1mr4up.html (last access: 25 June 2015); ICDO – http://www.icdo.org/en/disasters/natural-disasters/storms/ (last access: 25 June 2015). N: 1. Old English storm “violent disturbance of the atmosphere, tempest; onrush, attack, tumult; disturbance,” from Proto-Germanic sturmaz storm, from PIE stur-mo-, from root *(s)twer- “to turn, whirl”. Old French estour
GC: n S: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24034948 (last access: 16 January 2015); http://www.eudict.com/?lang=engrom&word=stoutness;%20burliness;%20portliness;%20corpulence;%20corpulency (last access: 16 January 2015). N: 1. From stout (adj): c.1300, “proud, valiant, strong,” from Old French estout “brave, fierce, proud,” earlier estolt “strong,” from a Germanic source from West Germanic stult- “proud, stately, strutting” (cognates: Middle Low German stolt
GC: n S: MEDNET – https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=12157 (last access: 4 November 2020); AAO – https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-strabismus (last access: 4 November 2020). N: 1. The first time it was found in a document was in 1680. It comes from the medical Latin, from Greek strabismos, from strabizein, which means “to squint” and from strabos, which
GC: n S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4241729/ (last access: 20 June 2021); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/antibiotics/antibiotic-antimicrobial-resistance/ (last access: 20 June 2021). N: 1. “line of descent, lineage, breed, ancestry,” c. 1200, from Old English strion, streon “a gain, acquisition, treasure; a begetting, procreation,” from Proto-Germanic *streu-nam- “to pile up,” from PIE *streu-, extended form of root *stere- “to spread.” Hence
GC: n S: Shipsbusiness – http://shipsbusiness.com/stranding-handling-checklist.html (last access: 15 June 2024); Arnold Ditkin – https://www.arnolditkin.com/blog/maritime/7-types-of-commercial-vessel-incidents-how-to-pr/ (last access: 15 June 2024). N: 1. Adjective, from present participle of verb “strand”. 1620s, “to drive aground on a sea-shore,” from strand (n.1). Compare beach (v.). The figurative sense of “leave helpless; be checked
GC: n S: Icelandrev – https://www.icelandreview.com/news/cargo-ship-stranded-off-north-iceland/ (last access: 15 June 2024); News.com.au – https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/cargo-ship-rio-madeira-stranded-after-power-failure/news-story/4082cc4ab8345e038dde8f5baed31fb3 (last access: 15 June 2024). N:1. – stranding (adj): From present participle of verb “strand”. 1620s, “to drive aground on a sea-shore,” from strand (n.1). Compare beach (v.). The figurative sense of “leave helpless; be checked
GC: n S: http://products.invitrogen.com/ivgn/product/15140122 (last access: 22 April 2013); DORLAND. N: 1. streptomycin (n.): antibiotic drug, 1944, from Modern Latin Streptomyces, genus name of the bacterium from which the antibiotic was obtained, from strepto- “twisted” + -mycin, element used in forming names of substances obtained from fungi, from Latinized form
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/cerebrovascular_accident/en/ (last access: 17 November 2016); MEDLP – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/stroke.html (last access: 6.11.2014). N: 1. stroke, “act of striking,” c.1300, probably from Old English strac “stroke,” from Proto-Germanic straik- (cognates: Middle Low German strek, German streich, Gothic striks “stroke”). 2. A sudden and severe attack; also
GC: n S: NHS – https://bit.ly/2E5mM6i (last access: 29 November 2018); MD – https://wb.md/2r9Ltpu (last access: 29 November 2018). N: 1. From obsolete English styan, from Middle English styanye ‘eye with a sty’, from Old English stīgend ‘sty’, from stīgan ‘to go up’, ‘rise’. First known use in 1617. 2.
GC: n S: MAYO – https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sunburn/symptoms-causes/syc-20355922 (last access: 5 March 2023); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sunburn/ (last access: 5 March 2023). N: 1. sunburn (n): From verb sunburn, 1520s, from “sun” (n.) + “burn” (v.). Sunburnt (c. 1400) is older than sunburned (c. 1500, sunne y-brent). As a noun from 1650s. 2.
GC: n S: NCBI – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6880/ (last access: 1 September 2015); http://www.pdf.org/en/surgical_treatments (last access: 1 September 2015). N: – surgical (adj): From surgeon and -ical. First Known Use: 1770. Full Definition: of or relating to surgeons or surgery used in or in connection with surgery following or resulting from surgery
GC: n S: Oxford Academic – https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/18/10/2196/622680?login=true (last access: 20 April 2021); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1733290/pdf/v026p00404.pdf (last access: 20 April 2021). N: 1. – surrogate (n): Early 15c., from Latin surrogatus, past participle of surrogare/subrogare “put in another’s place, substitute,” from assimilated form of sub “in the place of, under” +
GC: n S: http://www.sustainability.com/ (last access: 26th April 2013); http://www.epa.gov/sustainability/basicinfo.htm#sustainability (last access: 26th August 2014); UN – http://www.un.org/en/sustainablefuture/sustainability.shtml (last access: 26th August 2014). N: 1. sustainability (n.): 1907, in reference to a legal objection, from sustainable + -ity. General sense (in economics, agriculture, ecology) by 1972. Sustainability is defined as
GC: n S: http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/what-is-sustainable-development.html (last access: 26 August 2014); https://www.iisd.org/sd/ (last access: 19 June 2015). N: 1. Sustainable development is an approach to economic planning that attempts to foster economic growth while preserving the quality of the environment for future generations. 2. “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs
GC: n S: ISE – http://www.easternct.edu/sustainenergy/ (last access: 7 December 2013); EUSEW – http://www.eusew.eu/ (last access: 7 December 2013). N: 1. Sustainable energy is about meeting current energy needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their economic, social and environmental needs. 2. Energy is central to sustainable
GC: n S: NCBI – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2597750/ (last access: 20 November 2014); UWH – http://www.uwhealth.org/voice-swallow/swallowing-treatments/26132 (last access: 20 November 2014). N: 1. From swallow (v), old english swelgan “swallow, imbibe, absorb”, from Proto-Germanic swelgan/swelhan (cognates: old saxon farswelgan. Probably from Proto-Indo-European root swel- “to eat, drink”. 2. the taking in of
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GC: S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs330/en/ (last access: 29 April 2016); http://www.cdc.gov/zika/symptoms/ (last access: 29 April 2016). N: 1. 1540s, re-Latinized from sinthoma (late 14c.), from Medieval Latin sinthoma “symptom of a disease,” altered from Late Latin symptoma, from Greek symptoma “a happening, accident, disease,” from stem of sympiptein “to befall,
GC: n S: NATURE – http://www.nature.com/news/infectious-disease-tough-choices-to-reduce-ebola-transmission-1.16298 (last access: 21 November 2014); DORLAND p. 1817. N: 1. From medical Latin symptomatologia, from symptomat-, stem of symptoma (see symptom) + -logia (see -logy). Related: Symptomatological. 2. Two meanings: The branch of medicine that deals with symptoms; the systematic discussion of symptoms. The
GC: n S: NHS – https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/syncope (last access: 24 June 2023); Yale – https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/syncope (last access: 24 June 2023). N: 1. 1520s, “contraction of a word by omission of middle sounds or letters,” from Latin syncope “contraction of a word by elision,” from Greek synkope “contraction of a word,” originally
GC: n S: MedicineNet.com – http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5613 (last access: 9 November 2016); SYND – http://syndrome.org/ (last access: 11 June 2015). N: 1. “a number of symptoms occurring together,” 1540s, from medical Latin, from Greek syndrome “concurrence of symptoms, concourse of people,” from syndromos “place where several roads meet,” literally “a running