GC: n S: EEEAS – http://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/trinidad/eu_trinidad/humanitarian_aid/index_en.htm (last access: 28 February 2013); NRDC – http://www.nrdc.org/water/ (last access: 9 July 2015). N: – water (n): First Known Use: As noun: before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a (the liquid that descends from the clouds as rain, forms streams,
GC: n S: UNDP – http://www.undp.ps/en/fsh/43772.pdf (last access: 16 July 2012); WHO – http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/aww2.pdf (last access: 7 July 2015); http://www.iwaponline.com/ws/toc.htm (last access: 7 July 2015). N: 1. – water (n): Middle English, from Old English wæter; akin to Old High German wazzar water, Greek hydōr, Latin unda wave. – supply
GC: n S: UNESCO – http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001229/122948e.pdf (last access: 30 October 2012); WHO – http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/en/ (last access: 14 October 2015). N: Water, sanitation and hygiene have important impacts on both health and disease. Water-related diseases include: those due to micro-organisms and chemicals in water people drink; diseases like schistosomiasis which have
GC: n S: https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2015-12-30/weather-and-war-put-humanitarian-system-under-unprecedented (last access: 17 July 2016); http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/30/weather/el-nino-1016-effects/ (last access: 17 July 2016). N: 1. Middle English weder, from Old English; akin to Old High German wetar weather, Old Church Slavic vetrŭ wind First Known Use: before 12th century 2. State of the atmosphere at a particular time,
GC: n S: MN – http://www.medicinenet.com/wegeners_granulomatosis/article.htm (last access: 12 June 2017); https://www.emedicinehealth.com/wegener_granulomatosis/article_em.htm (last access: 4 May 2018). N: 1. – Wegener (pn): Friedrich Wegener was a German pathologist (1907-1990). – granulomatosis (n): 1911, granuloma + -t- from Greek + –ōsis. 2. Wegener’s granulomatosis is a very rare disease that affects
GC: n S: NORD – https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/west-syndrome/ (last access: 6 November 2015); MD – http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1176431-overview (last access: 6 November 2015). N: 1. The syndrome’s namesake, Dr W J West, gave the first detailed description of infantile spasms, which occurred in his own child. 2. In a letter to the editor of
GC: pln S: WaPo – https://wapo.st/2B0fldb (last access: 24 January 2019); Newsweek – https://bit.ly/1obTgw3 (last access: 24 January 2019). N: 1. wetback (n.): “illegal Mexican immigrant to the U.S.,” c.1924, from wet (adj.) + back (n.); from notion of wading the Rio Grande. 2. First use: 1929. Origin: the practice
GC: n S: MNT – http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/188228.php (last access: 30 March 2017); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88990/ (last access: 4 April 2018). N: 1. – Whipple (pn): George Hoyt Whipple (1878 – 1976), American pathologist whose discovery that raw liver fed to chronically bled dogs will reverse the effects of anemia led directly
GC: n S: NCBI – https://bit.ly/2OHVc3w (last access: 9 October 2019); MEDLP – https://bit.ly/2q00zAu (last access: 9 October 2019). N: 1. – white (adj): Old English hwit “bright, radiant; clear, fair,” also as a noun (see separate entry), from Proto-Germanic *hweit- (source also of Old Saxon and Old Frisian hwit,
GC: n CT: But in people with Wilson’s disease, copper isn’t eliminated properly and instead accumulates, possibly to a life-threatening level. When diagnosed early, Wilson’s disease is treatable, and many people with the disorder live normal lives. S: MAYO – http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/wilsons-disease/basics/definition/con-20043499 (last access: 18 May 2017) N: 1. – Wilson
GC: n S: WebMD – https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-227/witch-hazel (last access: 3 December 2023); Chestnuth – https://chestnutherbs.com/witch-hazel-bloomoogling-unusual-male-parts-explosive-seeds-and-medicinal-uses/ (last access: 3 December 2023). N: 1. 1540s, probably from Old English wice “Applied generally or vaguely to various trees having pliant branches” [OED], from wican “to bend” (from PIE root *weik- (2) “to bend, to
GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/terminology/withdrawal/en/ (last access: 9 December 2014); DORLAND p. 2082. N: 1. withdrawal (adj): 1820s, “act of taking back,” also “retraction of a statement, from withdraw + –al. syndrome (n): “a number of symptoms occurring together,” 1540s, from medical Latin, from Greek syndrome “concurrence of symptoms,
GC: n S: MAYO – http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/wolff-parkinson-white-syndrome/home/ovc-20265961 (last access: 19 May 2017); Medscape – https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/159222-overview (last access: 8 June 2018). N: 1. – Wolff (pn): Louis Wolff was an American cardiologist (1898 – 1972). – Parkinson (pn): John Parkinson was an English cardiologist (1885 – 1976). – White (pn): Dr Paul
GC: adj S: https://courses.washington.edu/conj/bess/differentiation/differentiation.htm (last access: 19 June 2016); http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/wolffian+duct (last access: 19 June 2016). N: 1. From last name of Kaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), German anatomist and embryologist + English -an. 2. Discovered or first described by Kaspar Friedrich Wolff. 3. Kaspar Friedrich Wolff was one of the founders
GC: n S: http://radiopaedia.org/articles/wolffian-duct (last access: 19 June 2016); https://courses.washington.edu/conj/bess/differentiation/differentiation.htm (last access: 19 June 2016). N: 1. Wolffian (adj): From last name of Kaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), German anatomist and embryologist + English -an. First Known Use: 1876. duct (n): 1640s, “course, direction,” from Latin ductus “a leading,” past participle
GC: adj S: http://medicine.academic.ru/50425/wormian (last access: 19 June 2016); http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2211568413000028?via=sd (last access: 19 June 2016). N: 1. Eponym from last name of Ole Worm. Worm \ˈvȯrm\, Ole ( Latin Olaus Wormius) (1588–1654), Danish physician. Worm was a professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen and personal physician to King
GC: n S: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/wormian+bone (last access: 19 June 2016); http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23959948 (last access: 19 June 2016). N: 1. Wormian (adj): Eponym from last name of Ole Worm. Worm \ˈvȯrm\, Ole ( Latin Olaus Wormius) (1588–1654), Danish physician. Worm was a professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen and personal physician
GC: n S: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2702871/Treasure-trove-classic-cars-bottom-sea-The-British-Merchant-Navy-ship-carrying-military-vehicles-sunk-Red-Sea-Second-World-War.html (last access: 9 October 2015); http://www.wrecksite.eu/wrecksite.aspx (last access: 9 October 2015). N: 1. early 13c., “goods cast ashore after a shipwreck, flotsam,” from Anglo-French wrec, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse *wrek “wreck, flotsam” (cognates: Norwegian, Icelandic rek), related to reka “to drive, push,”
GC: n S: AJADD – https://bit.ly/2JVP4Ae (last access: 11 November 2018); INDAWIJ – https://bit.ly/2PSLoEH (last access: 11 November 2018). N: 1. From prefix xeno- (from Ancient Greek ξένος xénos, “alien”) and adjective biotic (from Ancient Greek βιωτικός biōtikós, “of life”, from βίος bíos, “life”). Adjective and noun. 2. A xenobiotic
GC: n S: http://www.pnas.org/content/80/6/1650.full.pdf (last access: 28 February 2013); http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0044219 (last access: 28 February 2013). N: 1. xenogeneic (adj): From Greek, xenos + genein, to produce. graft (n): “shoot inserted into another plant,” late 15c. alteration of Middle English graff (late 14c.), from Old French graife “grafting knife, carving tool;
GC: n S: OSCE – http://www.osce.org/odihr/44453 (last access: 28 February 2013); UNESCO – https://bit.ly/1zmcBNk (last access: 27 May 2017). N: 1. 1903, from xeno- “foreign, strange” + -phobia “fear.” Earlier (c.1884) it meant “agoraphobia.” 2. Origin of XENOPHOBIA: New Latin. First Known Use: 1903. 3. Fear and hatred of strangers
GC: n S: WHO – http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/133705/1/WHO_NMH_NHD_EPG_14.4_eng.pdf (last access: 10 February 2016); MN – http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=6040 (last access: 10 February 2016). N: 1. Greek, xeros + ophthalmos, eye. 2. Night blindness is an early sign of vitamin A deficiency, followed by abnormal dryness of the eye and ultimately scarring of the cornea,