GC: n S: NSC – https://www.newscientist.com/article/2253386-what-are-t-cells-and-why-have-they-become-a-political-football/ (last access: 22 October 2020); SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/t-cell (last access: 22 October 2020). N: 1. – T (letter): Twentieth letter of the English alphabet. The T-cell (1970) so called because they are derived from the thymus. – cell (n): Early 12c., “small monastery, subordinate monastery” (from Medieval Latin
GC: n S: WHO – https://bit.ly/2Qa2fmE (last access: 21 November 2018); NCBI – https://bit.ly/2OVnMLa (last access: 21 November 2018). N: 1. “rapid heartbeat,” 1868, Modern Latin, coined 1867 by German-born physician Hermann Lebert (1813-1878) from tachy- “swift” + Latinized form of Greek kardia “heart,” from PIE root *kerd- “heart.” 2.
Definition: The act of assigning a keyword or term to a piece of information, in order to facilitate its retrieval. Synonyms and Acronyms: None To be avoided: None
GC: S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1769710/ (last access: 23 December 2019); Medscape – https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/332378-overview (last access: 23 December 2019). N: 1. – Takayasu (pn): Mikito Takayasu (高安 右人 Takayasu Mikito, September 4, 1860 – November 20, 1938) was a Japanese ophthalmologist known for his discovery of Takayasu’s arteritis. – arteritis (n):
GC: n S: http://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/takotsubo-cardiomyopathy-broken-heart-syndrome (last access: 23 June 2017); http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1513631-overview (last access: 23 June 2017). N: 1. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy was first reported in Japan in 1990. The word ’Takotsubo’ means ‘octopus pot’ in Japanese, as the left ventricle of the heart changes into a similar shape as the pot –
GC: n S: UN – http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/afghan/un-afghan-history.shtml (last access: 11 December 2014); BBC – http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11451718 (last access: 16 December 2014). N: 1. Taliban (n): Sunni fundamentalist movement begun in Afghanistan, from Pashto plural of Arabic tālib “student;” so called because it originated among students in Pakistani religious schools. 2. Originally, “taliban,”
GG: n S: FAO – http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5624e/x5624e04.htm (last access: 7 November 2013); GDT; TERMIUMPLUS; IATE. N: 1. Ordinary water from a faucet or tap used domestically and that has not been distilled or purified. 2. According to FAO’s website and WHO’s website, piped water is used as a synonym for tap
GC: n S: http://callape.com/issue/may-2014/article/understanding-the-differences-between-asphalt-and-refined-coal-tar (last access: 7 February 2016); http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Tar (last access: 7 February 2016). N: 1. tar (n.1): a viscous liquid, Old English teoru, teru “tar, bitumen, resin, gum,” literally “the pitch of (certain kinds of) trees,” from Proto-Germanic *terwo- (cognates: Old Norse tjara, Old Frisian tera, Middle Dutch
GC: n S: EJ – https://www.embopress.org/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1460-2075.1994.tb06341.x (last access: 19 November 2020); ASM – https://jvi.asm.org/content/78/23/12800.short (last access: 19 November 2020). N: 1. c. 1300, “shield,” diminutive of late Old English targe, from Old French targe “light shield” (12c.), from Frankish *targa “shield,” from Proto-Germanic *targ- (source also of Old High German zarga “edging, border,” German zarge “border, edge, frame,” Old English targe, Old Norse targa “shield,
GC: n S: UNESCO – https://en.unesco.org/themes/teachers (last Access: 31 May 2020); Elsevier – https://www.journals.elsevier.com/teaching-and-teacher-education (last Access: 31 May 2020). N: 1. “one who teaches,” c. 1300; agent noun from teach (v.). It was used earlier in a sense of “index finger” (late 13c.). Teacher’s pet attested from 1856. 2. One that teaches, especially: one
GC: n S: The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/oct/21/rent-property-letting-agent-fees-government-ban (last access: 9 November 2017); The Telegraph – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/landlord-guide/tenant-deposits-need-to-know/ (last access: 9 November 2017). N: 1. From Anglo-French tenaunt (late 13c.), Old French tenant “possessor; feudal tenant” (12c.), noun use of present participle of tenir “to hold,” from Latin tenere “hold, keep, grasp,”
GC: n S: HUM – http://www.humanitarian.net/biodefense/fazdc/zdc1/zoores_protozoan.html (last access: 2 December 2014); MEDLP – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003131.htm (last access: 2 December 2014); DORLAND p. 384. N: 1. “a straining” (to void the contents of the bowels), 1520s, medical Latin, from Greek tenesmos “a straining,” from teinein “to stretch”. 2. Spasmodic contraction of anal
GC: adj S: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/offering-a-choice-to-the-terminally-ill.html?_r=0 (last access: 16 July 2015); http://patient.info/health/benefits-for-the-terminally-ill (last access: 16 July 2015); NAVARRO p. 996. N: What is meant by terminally ill? The definition used by the Department for Work and Pensions, when they assess a claim under the special rules, is that a person is suffering
GC: n S: Termcoord – https://termcoord.eu/why-terminology/31318-2/ (last access: 27 December 2022); UN – https://careers.un.org/lbw/home.aspx?viewtype=LCEFD&FId=6 (last access: 27 December 2022). N: 1. Neologism, created from “terminology”, from Medieval Latin terminus (“word, expression”) + -logue (word-forming element meaning “one who is immersed in or driven by,” mostly from French-derived words, ultimately from
GC: n S: Uwasa – http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~atn/papers/artikkelit/OnTerminologySc.html (last access: 26 December 2022); Eurasiarev – https://www.eurasiareview.com/08012022-introduction-to-the-science-of-terminology-analysis/ (last access: 26 December 2022). N: 1. 1770, from German Terminologie, a hybrid coined by Christian Gottfried Schütz (1747-1832), professor of poetry and rhetoric at Jena, from Medieval Latin terminus “word, expression” (see terminus) + Greek
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/tetanus/en/ (last access: 19 November 2013); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tetanus/ (last access: 12 March 2021). N: 1. tetanus (n.): infectious disease, late 14c., from Latin tetanus “tetanus,” from Greek tetanos “tetanus, muscular spasm,” literally “a stretching, tension,” from teinein “to stretch” (see tenet); “so called because
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/antiretroviral_therapy/en/ (last access: 29 April 2016); WHO – http://www.who.int/lep/mdt/en/ (last access: 29 April 2016); http://www.esciencecentral.org/journals/infectious-diseases-and-therapy.php (last access: 29 April 2016). N: 1. 1846, “medical treatment of disease,” from Modern Latin therapia, from Greek therapeia “curing, healing, service done to the sick; a waiting on, service,”
GC: n S: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm (last access: 4 September 2015); EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/topic/Third-World (last access: 4 September 2015). N: 1. Former political designation originally used (1963) to describe those states not part of the first world—the capitalist, economically developed states led by the U.S. —or the second world— the communist states
GC: n S: http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/ben2417s/EUAID2.htm (last access: 25 April 2013); http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world.htm (last access: 2 September 2014). N: 1. Countries of the Third World. The term Third World was originally coined in times of the Cold War to distinguish those nations that are neither aligned with the West (NATO) nor with the
GC: npl S: http://www.socwork.net/sws/article/view/227/458 (last access: 16 July 2012); https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/the-threats/terrorism/threat-levels.html (last access: 2 September 2014). N: Old English þreat “crowd, troop,” also “oppression, coercion, menace,” related to þreotan “to trouble, weary,” from Proto-Germanic *thrautam (cognates: Dutch verdreiten, German verdrießen “to vex”), from PIE *treud- “to push, press squeeze” (cognates: Latin