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”

GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/schistosomiasis/en/ (last access: 25 November 2014); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/schistosomiasis/ (last access: 19 November 2024). 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 chronic disorders caused by

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

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

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

GC: n S: MEDLP – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000355.htm (last access: 5 September 2014); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/scurvy/ (last access: 10 August 2024). 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

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,

GC: n S: NatGeo – https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/sea/ (last access: 26 April 2025); NOAA – https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanorsea.html (last access: 26 April 2025). N: 1. Middle English se, seo, from Old English sæ, “sheet of water, sea, lake, pool,” from Proto-Germanic *saiwa- (source also of Old Saxon seo, Old Frisian se, Middle Dutch see,

GC: S: (last access: ); (last access: ). N: S: 1. (last access: ). 2. (last access: ). 3. (last access: ). 4. (last access: ). SYN: S: CR:

GC: n S: NCBI (last access: 9 November 2025); NORD (last access: 9 November 2025). N: 1. Eponym from the American Physician Helmut Paul George Seckel (1900-1960). The syndrome was named after Rudolf Virchow and Helmut Paul George Seckel in 1960. – Seckel (pn): Dr. Helmut Seckel was a professor

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

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

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: USGS – https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-seismic-zone-or-seismic-hazard-zone (last access: 6 June 2024); SFExaminer – https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/much-of-san-franciscos-affordable-housing-is-slated-for-seismic-hazard-zones/article_434c3984-1428-11ed-a74f-83ac2da776eb.html (last access: 6 June 2024). N: 1.- seismic (adj): 1852, “pertaining to or of the nature of an earthquake,” from seismo- + -ic. Alternative seismal is by 1853. Related: Seismical; seismically; seismicity. – hazard (n): c.

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: NCBI – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10646883/ (last access: 6 April 2025); SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/sentience (last access: 6 April 2025). N: 1. From sentient, from Latin sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“feel, sense”). Compare with sentence, its equivalent formation from Classic Latin sententia (for *sentientia). 2. sentience, noun. The first known

GC: n S:  StL – http://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/bri/view.cgi?n=29424 (last access: 29 August 2014);  NIH – https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sepsis.html (last access: 27 September 2015). 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

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,