GC: n S: http://centres.insead.edu/humanitarian-research-group/research-projects/documents/WP2010-47_UsingORtosupporthumanitarianoperationsLearningfromtheHaitiearthquake.pdf (last access: 13 June 2016); https://elsevier.conference-services.net/resources/247/2182/pdf/CPAC2011_0114_paper.pdf (last access: 13 June 2016). N: 1. seism (n): From Greek seismos. seismic (adj.): 1858, from seismo- (word-forming element meaning “earthquake,” from comb. form of Greek seismos “a shaking, shock; an earthquake,” from seiein “to shake,” from PIE root *twei-

GC: n S: http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/shzp/Pages/SHMPrealdis.aspx (last access: 12 March 2013); http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Planning_and_Development/Building_and_Safety/Seismic_Hazard_Zones.aspx (last access: 8 May 2015). N: 1. Seismic Hazard Zones are regulatory zones that encompass areas prone to liquefaction (failure of water-saturated soil) and earthquake-induced landslides. What does it mean to be located within a Seismic Hazard Zone? It means

GC: n S: UNCHARTER – http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter7.shtml (last access: 12 November 2014); http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/self_defence/ (last access: 12 November 2014). N: 1. self-defence (n): 1650s, “act of defending oneself,” first attested in Hobbes, from self- + defense. In sports sense, first with reference to fencing (1728), then boxing (1820s). self-: word forming element

GC: adj S: FAO – http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/x4946e/x4946e0b.htm (last access: 10 April 2016); http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23139114 (last access: 10 April 2016). N: 1. Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin. Latin, sentire, to feel. 2. Different meanings: Capable of perceiving sensations. Responding to a stimulus. Acutely perceptive of interpersonal situations. One who is readily

GC: n S: https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat507/node/71 (last access: 10 April 2016); https://beanaroundtheworld.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/epidemiology-sensitivity-and-specificity/ (last access: 10 April 2016). N: 1. From Latin, sentire. 2. Different meanings of “sensitivity”: capacity to feel, transmit, or react to a stimulus. susceptibility to a substance, such as a drug or an antigen. See also allergy, hypersensitivity. the

GC: n S: http://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/bri/view.cgi?n=29424 (last access: 29 August 2014); https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sepsis.html (last access: 27 September 2015); DORLAND p. 1693. N: 1. From Greek oiNits, putrefaction. Sepsis or Septic Infection, a term applied in medicine and surgery to indicate the resultant infection of a wound or sore by micro-organisms or by their

GC: n S: HL – http://www.healthline.com/health/septicemia#Overview1 (last access: 26 September 2015); WebMD – http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/sepsis-septicemia-blood-infection (last access: 26 September 2015). N: 1. 1857, Modern Latin septicæmia, from French septicoemi, coined irregularly by French physician Pierre-Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879) in 1837 from Greek septikos (see septic) + haima “blood” (see -emia). 2. Systemic disease

GC: n S: http://www.rockefeller.edu/pubinfo/Pasteur/Kornberg_essay.html (last access: 29 December 2015); http://interestingliterature.com/2015/01/28/a-short-history-of-the-word-serendipity/ (last access: 29 December 2015). N: 1. 1754 (but rare before 20c.), coined by Horace Walpole (1717-92) in a letter to Horace Mann (dated Jan. 28); he said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale “The Three Princes of

See serological test.

GC: n S: FDA – https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-serological-tests (last access: 8 April 2020); ECDC – https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/media/en/publications/Publications/lyme-borreliosis-diagnostic-accuracy-serological-tests-systematic-review.pdf (last access: 8 April 2020). N: 1. – serological (adj): From the noun serology (1907, from sero-, combining form of “serum”, + “-logy”. Related: Serological; serologist). – test (n): Late 14c., “small vessel used in assaying precious metals,” from

GC: n S: NHS – https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/microbiology/diagnostic-tests/atoz/serology.aspx (last access: 8 April 2020); URMC – https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=85&ContentID=P00959 (last access: 8 April 2020). N: 1. 1907, from sero-, combining form of “serum”, + “-logy”. Related: Serological; serologist. 2. The branch of science dealing with the measurement and characterization of antibodies and other immunological substances in body fluids,

GC: n S: MNT – http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/kc/serotonin-facts-232248 (last access: 11 November 2016); Healthline Reference Library – http://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-sleep/foods-that-could-boost-your-serotonin (last access: 11 November 2016). N: 1.1948, coined from sero-, comb. form of serum (q.v.) + ton(ic) + chemical suffix -in. Chemical formula: C10H12N2O. 2. A chemical, 5-hydrozytryptamine (5-HT), present in blood platelets, the

GC: n S: UNESCO – http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=48368&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (last access: 12 May 2013); APA – http://www.apa.org/topics/sexual-abuse/ (last access: 21 May 2015). N: 1. – sexual (adj): 1650s, “of or pertaining to the fact of being male or female,” from Late Latin sexualis “relating to sex,” from Latin sexus. Meaning “pertaining to copulation

GC: n S: UN – http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/pdf/whatissh.pdf (last access: 10 July 2016); https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm (last access: 10 July 2016). N: 1. sexual (adj): 1650s, “of or pertaining to the fact of being male or female,” from Late Latin sexualis “relating to sex,” from Latin sexus. Meaning “pertaining to copulation or generation” is

See SIERTERM: https://sierterm.es/content/shale-gas

GC: n S: Express – http://bit.do/ezNoL (last access: 16 May 2016); The Guardian – http://bit.do/ezL4B (last access: 16 May 2016). N: 1. “rough cabin,” 1820, from Canadian French chantier “lumberjack’s headquarters,” in French, “timberyard, dock,” from Old French chantier “gantry,” from Latin cantherius “rafter, frame” (see gantry). Shanty Irish in

GC: n S: BBC – http://bit.do/ezNSd (last access: 26 February 2013); RedcrossInt – http://bit.do/ezNSY (last access: 31 October 2018). N: 1. – shanty (adj): 1836, from shanty (“rough cabin,” 1820, from Canadian French chantier “lumberjack’s headquarters,” in French, “timberyard, dock,” from Old French chantier “gantry,” from Latin cantherius “rafter, frame”.

GC: n S: NCBI – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11595626 (last access: 2 December 2014), WHO – http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs125/en/ (last access: 2 December 2014). N: 1. Shiga (Proper noun): Shiga Kiyoshi, (born Feb. 7, 1871, Sendai, Japan—died Jan. 25, 1957, Tokyo), Japanese bacteriologist, chiefly noted for his discovery (1897) of the dysentery bacillus Shigella, which

GC: n S: CNN – http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/05/europe/mediterranean-migrants-shipwreck/ (last access: 9 October 2015); http://shipwreck.net/pr195.php (last access: 31 January 2014). N: 1. mid-15c., from ship (n.) + wreck (n.). Earlier it meant “things cast up from a shipwreck” (c. 1100). The earlier word for “shipwreck” in the modern sense was Middle English schipbreke,

GC: n S: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/06/bae-shipyard-job-cuts-westminister (last access: 31 January 2014); EncBrit.; GDT. N: 1. shipyard (n.): c.1700, from ship (n.) + yard (n.1). ship (n.): Old English scip “ship, boat,” from Proto-Germanic *skipam (cognates: Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Gothic skip, Danish skib, Swedish skepp, Middle Dutch scip, Dutch schip,

GC: n S: http://britishseafishing.co.uk/the-scarborough-reef-dispute/ (last access: 31 January 2014); EncBrit.; GDT; TERMIUMPLUS. N: 1. shoal (n.1): “place of shallow water,” c.1300, from Old English schealde (adj.), from sceald “shallow,” from Proto-Germanic *skala- (cognates: Swedish skäll “thin;” Low German schol, Frisian skol “not deep”), of uncertain origin. The terminal -d was

GC: n S: http://www.komonews.com/weather/faq/4308002.html (last access: 15 July 2015) N: 1. Old English scur “a short fall of rain, storm, tempest; fall of missiles or blows; struggle, commotion; breeze,” from Proto-Germanic *skuraz, from PIE root *kew-(e)ro- “north, north wind” (cognates: Latin caurus “northwest wind;” Old Church Slavonic severu “north, north

GC: n S: http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/medical/healthy_person_accompanying_sick_person.htm (last access: 26 May 2015); NAVARRO p. 740 & 741. N: 1. Origin of sick: Middle English sek, sik, from Old English sēoc; akin to Old High German sioh sick First Known Use: before 12th century. 2. patient (n.): “suffering or sick person under medical treatment,”

GC: n S: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5489 (last access: 13 September 2015); http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/997.aspx?categoryid=73&subcategoryid=108 (last access: 13 September 2015). N: 1. Also side-effect, 1884, from side (adj.) + effect (n.). Medical use, with reference to drugs, is recorded from 1939. 2. A secondary and usually adverse effect (as of a drug) —called also side