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    faculty
    GC: n S: Harvard – https://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/about-faculty (last access: 31 May 2020); AAUP – https://www.aaup.org/report/inclusion-governance-faculty-members-holding-contingent-appointments (last access: 31 May 2020). N: 1. Late 14c., “ability, opportunity, means, resources,” from Old French faculte “skill, accomplishment, learning” (14c., Modern French faculté) and directly from Latin facultatem (nominative facultas) “power, ability, capability, opportunity; sufficient number, abundance, wealth,” from *facli-tat-s,
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    • 19 July 2020
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    flashback
    GC: n S: DrugWise – https://www.drugwise.org.uk/flashbacks/ (last access: 25 April 2020); Medscape – https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/288154-overview (last access: 25 April 2020). N: 1. 1903 in reference to fires in engines or furnaces, from verbal phrase (1902), from flash (v.) + back (adv.). Movie plot device sense is from 1916. The hallucinogenic drug sense is
    • adminhum
    • 26 April 2020
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    herd immunity
    GC: n S: JHSPH – https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/achieving-herd-immunity-with-covid19.html (last access: 17 May 2020); WHO – http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention/vaccines-and-immunization/data-and-statistics/infographics/infographic-herd-immunity-fighting-measles-is-a-shared-responsibility-2018 (last access: 17 May 2020). N: 1. – herd (n): Old English heord “herd, flock, company of domestic animals,” also, rarely, “a keeping, care, custody,” from Proto-Germanic *herdo (source also of Old Norse hjorð, Old High German herta, German Herde, Gothic hairda “herd”), from PIE *kerdh– “a
    • adminhum
    • 17 May 2020
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    heroin
    GC: n S: TheGuardian – https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/08/methadone-to-be-handed-out-without-prescription-during-covid-19-crisis#maincontent (last access: 8 April 2020); TheTelegraph – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/04/01/free-heroin-scheme-addicts-backed-probation-inspectors-combat/ (last access: 8 April 2020). N: 1. 1650s, “demigoddess”, from Latin heroine, heroina (plural heroinae) “a female hero, a demigoddess” (such as Medea), from Greek hērōine, fem. of hērōs. 2. It is a powerful drug which
    • adminhum
    • 23 June 2020
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    hospital
    Cf. hospital
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    • 25 April 2020
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    humanitarian action
    GC: n S: HHI – http://bit.do/ezTVd (last access: 31 October 2018); UNICEF – http://bit.do/ezTVA (last access: 4 September 2014); POTI – https://bit.ly/2RKKlDu (last access: 6 February 2019). N: 1. – humanitarian (adj): 1794 in the theological sense “one who affirms the humanity of Christ but denies his pre-existence and divinity,”
    • adminhum
    • 15 February 2013
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    hydrophobia
    GC: n S: HLN – https://www.healthline.com/health/aquaphobia#:~:text=This%20can%20include%20a%20swimming,the%20later%20stages%20of%20rabies. (last access: 19 November 2020); Lifeder – https://en.lifeder.com/hydrophobia/ (last access: 19 November 2020). N: 1. Late 14c., idroforbia, “dread of water, aversion to swallowing water,” a symptom of rabies in man (sometimes used for the disease itself), from Late Latin hydrophobia, from Greek hydrophobos “dreading water,” from
    • adminhum
    • 18 November 2020
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    IgG
    See “immunoglobulin G”: https://humantermuem.es/content/immunoglobulin-g/?lang=en
    • adminhum
    • 26 October 2020
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    IgM
    See “immunoglobulin M”: https://humantermuem.es/content/immunoglobulin-m/?lang=en
    • adminhum
    • 26 October 2020
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    immunoglobulin G
    GC: n S: NHS – https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/pathology/tests/immunoglobulins-igg-iga-igm/ (last access: 21 October 2020); SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/immunoglobulin-g (last access: 21 October 2020). N: 1. First Known Use of immunoglobulin (immune + globulin): 1953. immunoglobulin: antibody. The glycoproteins produced by B-cells, called antibodies or immunoglobulins, recognize and bind free antigens and are responsible for humoral immunity… 2.
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    • 26 October 2020
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    immunoglobulin M
    GC: n S: NHS – https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/pathology/tests/immunoglobulins-igg-iga-igm/ (last access: 21 July 2020); NIH – https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/12547/selective-igm-deficiency (last access: 21 July 2020). N: 1. First Known Use of immunoglobulin (immune + globulin): 1953. immunoglobulin: antibody. The glycoproteins produced by B-cells, called antibodies or immunoglobulins, recognize and bind free antigens and are responsible for humoral immunity…
    • adminhum
    • 21 July 2020
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    incidence rate
    See “incidence”: https://humantermuem.es/content/incidence/?lang=en (please, read the note number 5).
    • adminhum
    • 1 November 2020
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    influenza pandemic of 1918-19
    See Spanish influenza
    • adminhum
    • 15 May 2020
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    isolation
    In the context of COVID-19. See quarantine and read carefully the note 4.
    • adminhum
    • 16 May 2020
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    LIST OF SOURCES
    The list below shows the complete sources used in the glossary:
    • adminhum
    • 30 January 2013
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    lockdown
    In the context of COVID-19: See quarantine and read carefully the note 4.
    • adminhum
    • 16 May 2020
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    morphine
    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,
    • adminhum
    • 24 June 2020
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    narcosis
    GC: n S: TRS – https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.1932.0078 (last access: 14 July 2020); NIH – https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/abs/10.1289/ehp.9087207 (last access: 14 July 2020). N: 1. 1690s, “state of unconsciousness caused by a narcotic,” Modern Latin, from Greek narkōsis, from narkoun “to benumb” (see narcotic (n.)). 2.  State of stupor, unconsciousness, or arrested activity produced by the influence of narcotics or
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    • 14 July 2020
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    narcotic
    GC: n S: NCBI – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13691745/; SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0024320575900818 (last access: 2 July 2020). N: 1. As a noun, late 14c., narcotik, “substance which directly induces sleep or allays sensibility and blunts the senses,” from Old French narcotique (early 14c.), noun use of adjective, and directly from Medieval Latin narcoticum, from Greek narkōtikon, neuter of narkōtikos “making
    • adminhum
    • 2 July 2020
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    narcotic (2)
    GC: n S: BJA – https://www.bjanaesthesia.org.uk/article/S0007-0912(17)51838-3/pdf (last access: 5 July 2020); UofMhealth – https://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/d03436a1 (last access: 5 July 2020). N: 1. As a noun, late 14c., narcotik, “substance which directly induces sleep or allays sensibility and blunts the senses,” from Old French narcotique (early 14c.), noun use of adjective, and directly from Medieval
    • adminhum
    • 5 July 2020
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    nicotine
    GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/health-topics/tobacco#tab=tab_1 (last access: 7 July 2020); NCBI – https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Nicotine (last access: 7 July 2020). N: 1. Also nicotin, poisonous volatile alkaloid base found in tobacco leaves, 1819, from French nicotine, earlier nicotiane, from Modern Latin Nicotiana, the formal botanical name for the tobacco plant, named for Jean Nicot (c. 1530-1600), French
    • adminhum
    • 7 July 2020
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    opium
    GC: n S: NCBI – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19471817/ (last access: 15 July 2020); DRUGS – https://www.drugs.com/illicit/opium.html (last access: 15 July 2020). N: 1. “inspissated juice of the poppy plant,” especially as used in medicine from 17c. for relief of pain and production of sleep, late 14c., from Latin opium, from Greek opion “poppy juice, poppy,” diminutive
    • adminhum
    • 15 July 2020
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    overdose
    GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/publications-detail/9789241548816 (last access: 24 April 2020); MedlinePlus – https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007480.htm (last access: 24 April 2020). N: 1. 1700, “an excessive or too large dose”, from over- [from Old English ofer. ´Over´ and its Germanic relations were widely used as prefixes, and sometimes could be used with
    • adminhum
    • 27 June 2020
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    PCR
    See polymerase chain reaction.
    • adminhum
    • 10 April 2020
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