GC: adj S: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/offering-a-choice-to-the-terminally-ill.html?_r=0 (last access: 16 July 2015); http://patient.info/health/benefits-for-the-terminally-ill (last access: 16 July 2015); NAVARRO p. 996. N: What is meant by terminally ill? The definition used by the Department for Work and Pensions, when they assess a claim under the special rules, is that a person is suffering

GC: n S: Termcoord – https://termcoord.eu/why-terminology/31318-2/ (last access: 27 December 2022); UN – https://careers.un.org/lbw/home.aspx?viewtype=LCEFD&FId=6 (last access: 27 December 2022). N: 1. Neologism, created from “terminology”, from Medieval Latin terminus (“word, expression”) + -logue (word-forming element meaning “one who is immersed in or driven by,” mostly from French-derived words, ultimately from

GC: n S: Uwasa – http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~atn/papers/artikkelit/OnTerminologySc.html  (last access: 26 December 2022); Eurasiarev – https://www.eurasiareview.com/08012022-introduction-to-the-science-of-terminology-analysis/ (last access: 26 December 2022). N: 1. 1770, from German Terminologie, a hybrid coined by Christian Gottfried Schütz (1747-1832), professor of poetry and rhetoric at Jena, from Medieval Latin terminus “word, expression” (see terminus) + Greek

GC: n S: JSTOR – https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1413003.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A97e2edee6a1941f7a7fb266943142f1a&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1 (last access: 16 December 2023); Whipple – https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/28/items/crossref-pre-1923-scholarly-works/10.1037%252Fh0069483.zip&file=10.1037%252Fh0070121.pdf (last access: 16 December 2023). N: 1. c. 1400, “proof or demonstration of some fact, evidence, piece of evidence;” early 15c., “legal testimony, sworn statement of a witness,” from Old North French testimonie (Old French testimoine 11c.), from Latin

GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/tetanus/en/ (last access: 19 November 2013); NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tetanus/ (last access: 12 March 2021). N: 1. tetanus (n.): infectious disease, late 14c., from Latin tetanus “tetanus,” from Greek tetanos “tetanus, muscular spasm,” literally “a stretching, tension,” from teinein “to stretch” (see tenet); “so called because

GC: n S: NCBI (last access: 18 December 2025); SU (last access: 16 December 2025). N: 1. “scientific study of death,” 1837, from thanato– “death” + -logy. By 1889 as “a doctrine of or a discourse on death.” Related: Thanatological. In 1970s, some undertakers made a bid to be called thanatologists; but from 1974 that

GC: n S: NCBI – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5769822/ (last access: 17 January 2025); SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218310005 (last access: 17 January 2025). N: 1. thanatosis (noun). From thanat(o)- (before vowels thanat-, word-forming element of Greek origin used in English from 19c., mostly in scientific words, and meaning “death;” from Greek thanatos “death,” from PIE

GC: n S: SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/thebaine (last access: 11 December 2024); NIH – https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Thebaine (last access: 11 December 2024). N: 1. From Ancient Greek Θῆβαι (Thêbai, “Thebes”) + -ine (also -in, adjectival word-forming element, Middle English, from Old French -in/-ine, or directly from Latin suffix -inus/-ina/-inum “of, like,” forming adjectives

GC: n S: APA – https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/patients-and-families/medication-or-therapy (last access: 10 May 2025); IllinRecovCent – https://illinoisrecoverycenter.com/therapy-vs-treatment/ (last access: 10 May 2025). N: 1. 1846, “medical treatment of disease,” from Modern Latin therapia, from Greek therapeia “curing, healing, service done to the sick; a waiting on, service,” from therapeuein “to cure, treat medically,”

GC: n S: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm (last access: 4 September 2015); EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/topic/Third-World (last access: 4 September 2015). N: 1. Former political designation originally used (1963) to describe those states not part of the first world—the capitalist, economically developed states led by the U.S. —or the second world— the communist states

GC: n S: http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/ben2417s/EUAID2.htm (last access: 25 April 2013); http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world.htm (last access: 2 September 2014). N: 1. Countries of the Third World. The term Third World was originally coined in times of the Cold War to distinguish those nations that are neither aligned with the West (NATO) nor with the

GC: npl S: ICRC – https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/un-report-threats-challenges-and-change (last access: 4 July 2024); UN – https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/repertoire/actions (last access: 4 July 2024). N: 1. Old English þreat “crowd, troop,” also “oppression, coercion, menace,” related to þreotan “to trouble, weary,” from Proto-Germanic *thrautam (cognates: Dutch verdreiten, German verdrießen “to vex”), from PIE *treud- “to

See platelet

GC: n S: NHS – https://www.northdevonhealth.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Thrombocytopenia.pdf (last access: 14 November 2020); NIH – https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/thrombocytopenia#:~:text=Thrombocytopenia%20(THROM%2Dbo%2Dsi,other%20kinds%20of%20blood%20cells. (last access: 14 November 2020). N: 1. First Known Use of thrombocytopenia: 1921. New Latin, from International Scientific Vocabulary thrombocyte + New Latin -o- + -penia. 2. Thrombocytopenia, abnormally low number of platelets (thrombocytes) in the circulation. Normal platelet counts are between 150,000 and 400,000

GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/ith/mode_of_travel/DVT/en/ (last access: 7 July 2017); Medscape – http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/577318 (last access: 13 June 2015). N: 1. 1706, Modern Latin, from Greek thrombosis “a clumping or curdling” (from thrombousthai “become curdled or clotted,” from thrombos “clot, curd, lump;” see thrombus) + -osis. 2. The formation, development,

GC: n S: http://www.sciencemadesimple.co.uk/activities/thunder (last access: 30 June 2015); http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/thunder.html (last access: 30 June 2015). N: 1. mid-13c., from Old English þunor “thunder, thunderclap; the god Thor,” from Proto-Germanic thunraz, from PIE (s)tene- “to resound, thunder” (cognates: Sanskrit tanayitnuh “thundering,” Persian tundar “thunder,” Latin tonare “to thunder”). Swedish tordön is

GC: n S: http://www.adrc.asia/countryreport/NPL/NPLeng99/Nepal99.htm (last access: 30 June 2015) N: 1. mid-15c., from thunder (n.) + bolt (n.) “arrow, projectile.” 2. A single discharge of lightning with the accompanying thunder. First Known Use of THUNDERBOLT: 15th century. 3. Cultural Interrelation: We can mention the movie Powder (1995) directed by Victor

GC: n S: NOAA – https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/thunderstorms/ (last access: 30 July 2024); NWS – https://www.weather.gov/media/lsx/wcm/Thursday_tstorm_15.pdf (last access: 30 July 2024). N: 1. also thunder-storm, 1560s, from thunder (mid-13c., from Old English þunor “thunder, thunderclap; the god Thor,” from Proto-Germanic *thunraz, from PIE (s)tene- “to resound, thunder” + storm (Old English storm

GC: n S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5483461/ (last access: 6 December 2023); SD – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/thymol (last access: 6 December 2023). N: 1. thymol is a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek θύμον, -ol suffix. The earliest known use of the noun thymol is in the 1850s. Oxford

See “thymol” https://humantermuem.es/content/thymol/?lang=en

See thyroid cartilage and thyroid gland.

GC: n S: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=15568 (last access: 12 July 2017); http://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/thyroid-cartilage (last access: 12 July 2017). N: 1. – thyroid (adj): 1690s (in reference to both the cartilage and the gland), from Greek thyreoiedes “shield-shaped” (in khondros thyreoiedes “shield-shaped cartilage,” used by Galen to describe the “Adam’s apple” in the throat),

GC: n S: WHO – http://www.who.int/vmnis/database/iodine/iodine_data_sources/en/ (last access: 12 July 2017); https://www.thyroidfoundation.org.au/page/10/what-is-the-thyroid-gland-and-how-does-it-work (last access: 12 July 2017). N: 1. – thyroid (adj): Origin: Anc Greek θυρεός/thireos (=shield) + είδος/idos (=form). The shield name “θυρεός” derived from θύρα/thyra (=door) because of its oblong shape resembling to door. The aspis and the

GC: n S: NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tics/ (last access: 2 December 2020); NH – https://www.novanthealth.org/healthy-headlines/a-condition-often-misunderstood (last access: 2 December 2020). N: 1. twitching of a facial muscle, 1822, often a shortening of tic douloureux “severe facial neuralgia,” literally “painful twitch” (1798), from French tic “a twitching disease of horses” (17c.), of unknown origin. Klein suggests