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    safe area
    GC: n S: NYTIMES – https://nyti.ms/2TdcgxA (last access: 24 January 2019); Wapo – https://wapo.st/2FUEIk2 (last access: 24 January 2019). N: 1. – safe (adj): c. 1300, “unscathed, unhurt, uninjured; free from danger or molestation, in safety, secure; saved spiritually, redeemed, not damned;” from Old French sauf “protected, watched-over; assured of
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 23 February 2013
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    safety
    GC: S: ILO – http://goo.gl/hRB1I0 (last access: 10 January 2016); ILO – http://goo.gl/bvblm (last access: 10 January 2016). N: 1. early 14c., from Old French sauvete “safety, safeguard; salvation; security, surety,” earlier salvetet (11c., Modern French sauveté), from Medieval Latin salvitatem (nominative salvitas) “safety,” from Latin salvus (see safe (adj.)).
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 10 January 2016
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    Saffir-Simpson scale
    GC: n S: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/StephanieStern.shtml (last access: 23 November 2013) N: 1. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a 1 to 5 rating based on a hurricane’s sustained wind speed. This scale estimates potential property damage. Hurricanes reaching Category 3 and higher are considered major hurricanes because of their potential for
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 19 November 2013
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    salmonella
    GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs139/en/ (last access: 24 August 2016); http://healthvermont.gov/prevent/salmonella/Salmonella.aspx (last access: 24 August 2016). N: 1. salmonella ‎(plural salmonellas or salmonellae): Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases. Salmonella: 1913, the genus name, coined 1900 in Modern Latin
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 24 August 2016
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    salmonellosis
    GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs139/en/ (last access: 24 August 2016); http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/food-poisoning/tc/salmonellosis-topic-overview#1 (last access: 24 August 2016). N: 1. New Latin. First Known Use: circa 1913. 2. salmonellosis, any of several bacterial infections caused by certain species of Salmonella, important as the cause of a type of food poisoning in
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 24 August 2016
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    salubrity
    See healthiness
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 9 May 2017
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    sanitation
    GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/en/ (last access: 4 March 2013); CDC – http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/sanitation/ (last access: 5 September 2014). N: 1. sanitation (n.): 1848, irregularly formed from sanitary. Figurative use from 1934. As a euphemism for garbage (as in sanitation engineer) first recorded 1939. 2. Sanitation: The application of measures
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 21 March 2013
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    sanitation problem
    GC: n S: http://www.wateraid.org/~/media/Publications/The-sanitation-problem-what-can-and-should-the-health-sector-do.pdf. (last access: 4 October 2015); http://www.kit.nl/health/wp-content/uploads/publications/560_TOP2HIV_AIDS05.pdf (last access: 4 October 2015). N: Why are so many developing countries doing so badly in providing all their citizens with good sanitation? Why are they not investing in sanitation? Are they not very concerned about the resulting morbidity and
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 25 April 2013
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    sarcoidosis
    GC: n S: PUBLIC HEALTH – http://www.publichealthjrnl.com/article/S0033-3506″>http://www.publichealthjrnl.com/article/S0033-3506(11)00211-3/fulltext (last access: 21.10.2016 ); NMN – http://www.news-medical.net/news/20151023/Scientists-develop-new-strategy-to-target-sarcoidosis.aspx (last access: 21.10.2016). N: 1. 1936, from sarcoid (1841, from sarco- + -oid.; as a noun from 1875) + -osis (word-forming element expressing state or condition, in medical terminology denoting “a state of disease,” from Latin
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 21 October 2016
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    sarcoma
    GC: n S: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-soft-tissue-sarcoma/HealthProfessional (last access: 1 March 2015); DORLAND p. 1668. N: 1. 1650s, “fleshy excrescence,” Medical Latin, from Greek sarkoma “fleshy substance” (Galen), from sarkoun “to produce flesh, grow fleshy,” from sarx (genitive sarkos) “flesh” (see sarcasm) + -oma (word-forming element, from Greek -oma, with lengthened stem vowel
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 1 March 2015
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    SARS
    SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). See coronavirus.
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 28 March 2020
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    scabies
    GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/scabies/en/ (last access: 14 November 2013); DORLAND p. 1671. N: 1. scabies (n.): skin disease, “the itch,” c.1400, from Latin scabies “mange, itch, roughness,” from scabere “to scratch, scrape,” from PIE root *(s)kep-, a base forming words meaning “to cut, scrape, hack” (cognates: Gothic scaban,
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 15 November 2013
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    scalded skin syndrome
    See staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis.
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 13 February 2018
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    scarlet fever
    GC: n S: MEDLP – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000974.htm (last access: 15 December 2013); http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Scarlet-fever/Pages/Introduction.aspx (last access: 11 October 2015). N: 1. scarlet (n.): mid-13c., “rich cloth” (often, but not necessarily, bright red), from a shortened form of Old French escarlate “scarlet (color), top-quality fabric” (12c., Modern French écarlate), from Medieval Latin scarlatum
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 10 December 2013
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    schemes to assist repatriation
    GC: n S: EUR-Lex – http://bit.do/ezSzt (last access: 2 August 2017); EC – http://bit.do/ezSzG (last access: 2 August 2017). N: 1. – schemes (n): From singular noun scheme, 1550s, “figure of speech,” from Medieval Latin schema “shape, figure, form, appearance; figure of speech; posture in dancing,” from Greek skhema (genitive
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 15 February 2013
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    schistosomiasis
    GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/schistosomiasis/en/ (last access: 25 November 2014); http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs115/en/ (last access: 12 October 2015); http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/schistosomiasis/ (last access: 12 October 2015). N: 1. schistosomiasis (n): 1906, from schistosome (1905), from Modern Latin Schistosoma, from Greek skhistos “divided, cloven” (see schist) + soma “body” (see somato-). 2. Group of
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 25 November 2014
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    school enrolment
    GC: n S: UNICEF – http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/stats_popup5.html (last access: 12 October 2015); http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-21/news/36462558_1_enrolment-rural-areas-rte-norms (last access: 22 January 2013). N: Gross enrolment ratio. Primary. Total is the total enrollment in primary education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population of official primary education age. GER can exceed 100% due
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 22 April 2013
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    scoliosis
    GC: n S: SPRING – https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00586-005-1053-9 (last access: 29 October 2020); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/scoliosis/ (last access: 29 October 2020). N: 1. The first time it was found in a document was in 1706. It comes from the medical Latin, from Greek skoliosis, which means “crookedness” and from skolios which means
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 29 October 2020
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    screening
    GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/cancer/detection/en/index.html (last access: 8 December 2013); https://patient.info/treatment-medication/screening-tests-in-the-uk (last access: 25 January 2021). N: 1. From “screen” (v.), “to shield from punishment, to conceal,” late 15c., from screen (n.). Meaning “examine systematically for suitability” is from 1943; sense of “to release a movie” is from 1915. Related: Screened; screening. 2.The
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 21 November 2013
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    scurvy
    GC: n S: GRJH – http://faculty.washington.edu/andchien/PDFs/HuBio/scurvy.pdf (last access: 15 October 2013); http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000355.htm (last access: 5 September 2014). N: 1. 1560s, noun use of adjective scurvy “covered with scabs, diseased, scorbutic” (early 15c.), variant of scurfy. It took on the narrower meaning of Dutch scheurbuik, French scorbut “scurvy,” in reference to
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 14 November 2013
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    scutoid
    GC: n S: Nature – https://go.nature.com/2NSpa0Z (last access: 11 May 2019); LSC – https://bit.ly/30lFsGK (last access: 11 May 2019). N: 1. The object was first described by Gómez-Gálvez et al. in a paper entitled Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia, and published in July 2018. Officially,
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 11 May 2019
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    sea sickness
    GC: S: (last access: ); (last access: ). N: S: 1. (last access: ). 2. (last access: ). 3. (last access: ). 4. (last access: ). SYN: S: CR:
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 15 November 2016
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    sedimentation
    GC: n S: http://ngom.usgs.gov/pubs/pubs/Morton.Holmes_GCAGS09.pdf (last access: 27 September 2015); http://ruby.colorado.edu/~smyth/G101-7.html (last access: 27 September 2015). N: 1. 1845, from sediment (1540s, “matter which settles at the bottom of water or other liquid,” from Middle French sédiment (16c.) and directly from Latin sedimentum “a settling, sinking down,” from stem of sedere
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 21 November 2013
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    sedition
    GC: n S: STUD – https://bit.ly/2zoE9em (last access: 22 November 2018); EncBrit – https://bit.ly/2BvxrVk (last access: 22 November 2018). N: 1. mid-14c., “rebellion, uprising, revolt, concerted attempt to overthrow civil authority; violent strife between factions, civil or religious disorder, riot; rebelliousness against authority,” from Old French sedicion (14c., Modern French
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 22 November 2018
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