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    Aedes albopictus
    Aedes albopictus or mosquito tiger: please see Stegomyia albopicta.
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 22 September 2024
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    brown recluse spider
    GC: S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537045/ (last access: 20 August 2024); Penn – https://extension.psu.edu/brown-recluse-spiders (last access: 20 August 2024). N: 1. – brown (adj): Old English brun “dark, dusky,” developing a definite color sense from 13c., from Proto-Germanic *brunaz (source also of Old Norse brunn, Danish brun, Old Frisian and Old
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 20 August 2024
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    classical swine fever
    GC: S: WOAH – https://www.woah.org/en/disease/classical-swine-fever/ (last access: 19 October 2024); CDC – https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/4/17-1319_article (last access: 19 October 2024). N: 1. – classical (adj): 1590s, “of the highest rank” (originally in literature), from “classic” + “-al” (1). Classical music (1836) was defined originally against romantic music. – swine (n): Old English
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 19 October 2024
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    general surgery
    GC: n S: NCBI – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1616375/ (last access: 6 April 2025); NHS – https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/our-services/find-service/gastrointestinal-services-1/general-surgery (last access: 6 April 2025). N: 1. – general (adj): c. 1200, “of wide application, generic, affecting or involving all” (as opposed to special or specific), from Old French general (12c.) and directly from Latin generalis
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 6 April 2025
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    Mediterranean slipper lobster
    Scyllarides latus, the Mediterranean slipper lobster, is a species of slipper lobster found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 13 May 2025
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    Munchausen syndrome
    GC: n S: PMC – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4261219/ (last access: 4 December 2024); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/munchausen-syndrome/overview/ (last access: 4 December 2024). N: 1. – Munchausen (pn): Baron K. F. H. von Münchhausen †1797 German soldier and proverbial teller of exaggerated tales. The first known use of Munchausen syndrome was in 1951. –
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 4 December 2024
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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: Hyptextb – http://hypertextbook.com/facts/StephanieStern.shtml (last access: 23 November 2013): PCWP – https://www.pcwp.com/sss.html (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
    • 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); Webmd – 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
    • 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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    savanna
    See Sierterm: https://sierterm.es/content/savanna/?lang=en
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 21 April 2025
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    scabies
    GC: n S: WHO – https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/scabies (last access: 19 April 2024); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK544306/ (last access: 19 April 2024). 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,
    • 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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    scampi
    GC: n S: FAO – https://www.fao.org/fishery/en/openasfa/6a3b66a5-e0f4-4c77-a756-bad60d4bf399 (last access: 29 September 2024); Livseasnw – https://www.livingseasnw.org.uk/wildlife-explorer/marine/crustaceans/scampi (last access: 29 September 2024). N: 1. “prawns eaten as a delicacy,” by 1930, popular from 1960s, plural of Italian scampo “prawn,” a word from Venetian dialect, ultimately from Greek kampē, also “caterpillar, silkworm, grub,” probably
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 29 September 2024
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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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    schistosome
    GC: n S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK487776/ (last access: 19 November 2024); SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/schistosoma (last access: 19 November 2024). N: 1. “parasite of the genus Schistosoma“ (1905); the genus name (1858) is a Modern Latin formation from Greek skhistos “divided, cloven” (from skhizein “to split;” see schizo-) + sōma “body”
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 19 November 2024
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