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: 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
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/ith/mode_of_travel/DVT/en/ (last access: 7 July 2017); Medscape – http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/577318 (last access: 13 June 2015). N: 1. 1706, Modern Latin, from Greek thrombosis “a clumping or curdling” (from thrombousthai “become curdled or clotted,” from thrombos “clot, curd, lump;” see thrombus) + -osis. 2. The formation, development,
GC: n S: http://www.sciencemadesimple.co.uk/activities/thunder (last access: 30 June 2015); http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/thunder.html (last access: 30 June 2015). N: 1. mid-13c., from Old English þunor “thunder, thunderclap; the god Thor,” from Proto-Germanic thunraz, from PIE (s)tene- “to resound, thunder” (cognates: Sanskrit tanayitnuh “thundering,” Persian tundar “thunder,” Latin tonare “to thunder”). Swedish tordön is
GC: n S: http://www.adrc.asia/countryreport/NPL/NPLeng99/Nepal99.htm (last access: 30 June 2015) N: 1. mid-15c., from thunder (n.) + bolt (n.) “arrow, projectile.” 2. A single discharge of lightning with the accompanying thunder. First Known Use of THUNDERBOLT: 15th century. 3. Cultural Interrelation: We can mention the movie Powder (1995) directed by Victor
GC: n S: http://www.prep4agthreats.org/Natural-Disasters/thunderstorms (last access: 25 June 2015); http://www.ready.gov/thunderstorms-lightning (last access: 25 June 2015). N: 1. also thunder-storm, 1560s, from thunder (mid-13c., from Old English þunor “thunder, thunderclap; the god Thor,” from Proto-Germanic *thunraz, from PIE (s)tene- “to resound, thunder” + storm (Old English storm “violent disturbance of the
GC: n S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5483461/ (last access: 6 December 2023); SD – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/thymol (last access: 6 December 2023). N: 1. thymol is a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek θύμον, -ol suffix. The earliest known use of the noun thymol is in the 1850s. Oxford
GC: n S: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=15568 (last access: 12 July 2017); http://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/thyroid-cartilage (last access: 12 July 2017). N: 1. – thyroid (adj): 1690s (in reference to both the cartilage and the gland), from Greek thyreoiedes “shield-shaped” (in khondros thyreoiedes “shield-shaped cartilage,” used by Galen to describe the “Adam’s apple” in the throat),
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/vmnis/database/iodine/iodine_data_sources/en/ (last access: 12 July 2017); https://www.thyroidfoundation.org.au/page/10/what-is-the-thyroid-gland-and-how-does-it-work (last access: 12 July 2017). N: 1. – thyroid (adj): Origin: Anc Greek θυρεός/thireos (=shield) + είδος/idos (=form). The shield name “θυρεός” derived from θύρα/thyra (=door) because of its oblong shape resembling to door. The aspis and the
GC: n S: NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tics/ (last access: 2 December 2020); NH – https://www.novanthealth.org/healthy-headlines/a-condition-often-misunderstood (last access: 2 December 2020). N: 1. twitching of a facial muscle, 1822, often a shortening of tic douloureux “severe facial neuralgia,” literally “painful twitch” (1798), from French tic “a twitching disease of horses” (17c.), of unknown origin. Klein suggests