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    statelessness
    GC: n S: UNHCR – http://bit.do/ez3Gc (last access: 27 October 2016); USDepSt – http://bit.do/ez3Gn (last access: 2 November 2016). N: 1. From state (the political organization of a country, supreme civuk power, government) and less (word-forming element meaning “lacking, cannot be, does not”). 2.The condition of not being considered as
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 27 October 2016
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    Stegomyia albopicta
    GC: n S: MosquitoCatalog – http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/MQ0398.pdf (last access: 24 June 2016); BMC – https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-015-0793-6 (last access: 24 June 2016). N: 1. Scientific name for mosquito tiger or Aedes albopictus. 2. The mosquito Stegomyia albopicta, previously Aedes albopictus (Reinert & Harbach 2005), originating from Southeast Asia, has undergone a noteworthy expansion
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 24 June 2016
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    stem cell
    GC: n S: NIH – https://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/1.htm (last access: 15 November 2016); MEDLP – https://medlineplus.gov/stemcells.html (last access: 16 November 2016). N: 1. – stem (n): Old English stemn, stefn “stem of a plant, trunk of a tree, “ also “either end-post of a ship,” from Proto- Germanic stamniz (source also of
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 17 November 2016
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    stem cell transplant
    GC: n S: NMDP – https://bethematch.org/transplant-basics/how-blood-stem-cell-transplants-work/ (last access: 11 January 2024); AMS – https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/treatment-types/stem-cell-transplant.html (last access: 11 January 2024) N: 1. – stem (n): In modern linguistics, the sense of “part of a word that remains unchanged through inflection” is from 1830. In biology, stem cell is attested by 1885.
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 9 January 2024
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    stent
    GC: n S: WebMD – http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/guide/stents-types-and-uses (last access: 21 September 2015); NIH – http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/stents (last access: 21 September 2015). N: 1. “tube implanted temporarily,” 1964, named for Charles T. Stent (1807-1885), English dentist. 2. A stent is a tiny wire mesh tube. It props open an artery and is left there
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 21 September 2015
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    steppe
    See Sierterm: https://sierterm.es/content/steppe/?lang=en
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 24 April 2025
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    steroid
    GC: n S: AAO – https://www.aao.org/eye-health/drugs/steroid-tablets (last access: 21 November 2023); NHS – https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/conditions-and-treatments/medicines-information/short-term-steroid-treatment/ (last access: 21 November 2023). N: 1. naturally occuring substance based on a carbon skeleton similar to that of sterol molecules, 1936, from sterol + –oid “resembling.” Related: Steroids. 2. steroid, any of a class of
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 21 November 2023
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    sticker
    See https://humantermuem.es/content/emoticon/?lang=en, and please read note 6.
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 21 April 2024
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    stock exchange
    GC: n S: Thebalance – https://bit.ly/2TDtsNv (last access: 3 August 2019); IG – https://bit.ly/2GGwQlx (last access: 3 August 2019). N: 1. Made up by two words: stock (the original Stock Market was a fish and meat market in the City of London near Mansion House; It was so called probably
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 3 August 2019
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    stock market
    See stock exchange
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 3 August 2019
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    Stockholm syndrome
    GC: n S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9858395/ (1 September 2024); HLN – https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/stockholm-syndrome (1 September 2024). N: 1. The term takes its name from a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1973. The robber took four employees of the bank into the vault with him and kept them hostage for
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 8 December 2016
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    storm
    GC: n S: SMH – http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-storm-12-areas-declared-natural-disaster-zones-20150422-1mr4up.html (last access: 25 June 2015); ICDO – http://www.icdo.org/en/disasters/natural-disasters/storms/ (last access: 25 June 2015). N: 1. Old English storm “violent disturbance of the atmosphere, tempest; onrush, attack, tumult; disturbance,” from Proto-Germanic sturmaz storm, from PIE stur-mo-, from root *(s)twer- “to turn, whirl”. Old French estour
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 25 June 2015
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    stoutness
    GC: n S: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24034948 (last access: 16 January 2015); http://www.eudict.com/?lang=engrom&word=stoutness;%20burliness;%20portliness;%20corpulence;%20corpulency (last access: 16 January 2015). N: 1. From stout (adj): c.1300, “proud, valiant, strong,” from Old French estout “brave, fierce, proud,” earlier estolt “strong,” from a Germanic source from West Germanic stult- “proud, stately, strutting” (cognates: Middle Low German stolt
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 17 January 2015
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    strabismus
    GC: n S: MEDNET – https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=12157 (last access: 4 November 2020); AAO – https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-strabismus (last access: 4 November 2020). N: 1. The first time it was found in a document was in 1680. It comes from the medical Latin, from Greek strabismos, from strabizein, which means “to squint” and from strabos, which
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 6 November 2020
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    strain
    GC: n S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4241729/ (last access: 20 June 2021); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/antibiotics/antibiotic-antimicrobial-resistance/ (last access: 20 June 2021). N: 1. “line of descent, lineage, breed, ancestry,” c. 1200, from Old English strion, streon “a gain, acquisition, treasure; a begetting, procreation,” from Proto-Germanic *streu-nam- “to pile up,” from PIE *streu-, extended form of root *stere- “to spread.” Hence
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 20 June 2021
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    stranding
    GC: n S: Shipsbusiness – http://shipsbusiness.com/stranding-handling-checklist.html (last access: 15 June 2024); Arnold Ditkin – https://www.arnolditkin.com/blog/maritime/7-types-of-commercial-vessel-incidents-how-to-pr/ (last access: 15 June 2024). N: 1. Adjective, from present participle of verb “strand”. 1620s, “to drive aground on a sea-shore,” from strand (n.1). Compare beach (v.). The figurative sense of “leave helpless; be checked
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 28 January 2014
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    stranding site
    GC: n S:  Icelandrev – https://www.icelandreview.com/news/cargo-ship-stranded-off-north-iceland/ (last access: 15 June 2024); News.com.au – https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/cargo-ship-rio-madeira-stranded-after-power-failure/news-story/4082cc4ab8345e038dde8f5baed31fb3 (last access: 15 June 2024). N:1. – stranding (adj): From present participle of verb “strand”. 1620s, “to drive aground on a sea-shore,” from strand (n.1). Compare beach (v.). The figurative sense of “leave helpless; be checked
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 29 January 2014
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    streptomycin
    GC: n S: http://products.invitrogen.com/ivgn/product/15140122 (last access: 22 April 2013); DORLAND. N: 1. streptomycin (n.): antibiotic drug, 1944, from Modern Latin Streptomyces, genus name of the bacterium from which the antibiotic was obtained, from strepto- “twisted” + -mycin, element used in forming names of substances obtained from fungi, from Latinized form
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 22 April 2013
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    stroke
    GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/cerebrovascular_accident/en/ (last access: 17 November 2016); MEDLP – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/stroke.html (last access: 6.11.2014). N: 1. stroke, “act of striking,” c.1300, probably from Old English strac “stroke,” from Proto-Germanic straik- (cognates: Middle Low German strek, German streich, Gothic striks “stroke”). 2. A sudden and severe attack; also
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 4 November 2014
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    stye
    GC: n S: NHS – https://bit.ly/2E5mM6i (last access: 29 November 2018); MD – https://wb.md/2r9Ltpu (last access: 29 November 2018). N: 1. From obsolete English styan, from Middle English styanye ‘eye with a sty’, from Old English stīgend ‘sty’, from stīgan ‘to go up’, ‘rise’. First known use in 1617. 2.
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 30 November 2018
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    subprime mortgage
    GC: n S: Investop – https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/subprime_mortgage.asp (last access: 26 November 2024); CFPB – https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-subprime-mortgage-en-110/ (last access: 26 November 2024). N: 1. – subprime (adj): also sub-prime, in reference to loans with more onerous conditions, offered to borrowers with poor credit history, by 1978, in frequent use from 1996, from sub-
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 26 November 2024
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    sudoku
    See sodoku (note 2)
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 4 June 2016
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    sunburn
    GC: n S: MAYO – https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sunburn/symptoms-causes/syc-20355922 (last access: 5 March 2023); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sunburn/ (last access: 5 March 2023). N: 1. sunburn (n): From verb sunburn, 1520s, from “sun” (n.) + “burn” (v.). Sunburnt (c. 1400) is older than sunburned (c. 1500, sunne y-brent). As a noun from 1650s. 2.
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 5 March 2023
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    surgery
    GC: n S: NHS – https://medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-training-recruitment/medical-specialty-training/surgery (last access: 2 April 2025); NCBI – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1422579/ (last access: 2 April 2025). N: 1. c. 1300, sirgirie, “the work of a surgeon; medical treatment of an operative nature, such as cutting-operations, setting of fractures, etc.,” from Old French surgerie, surgeure, contraction of serurgerie,
    • Fernando Contreras
    • 2 April 2025
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