Biology
- # 54.2 Infectious Disease - Syllabus 2016
10.1 Infectious diseases 10.2 Antibiotics The infectious diseases studied in this section are caused by pathogens that are transmitted from one human host to another. Some, like Plasmodium that causes malaria, are transmitted...
- Panacea
Term: panaceaLiterally meaning : ?cure all? or ?all healing? Origin Anc Greek????????/panacea(=panacea)> ?[á?/pan(=all) + /á???/acos (= therapy) Coined/HistoryPanacea Helping the Sick. by the Veronese physician J. Gazola (1716) In...
- Endemic
Term: endemic Literally meaning: ?native to? Origin: Anc Greek??-/en-(=in)?????/demos(=people, crowd, land) >???/Dio(=the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture and harvests). Coined/Historyby Hippocrates (460 BC ? ca. 370 BC) DefinitionEndemic is an...
- Zoonosis, Zoonotic
Term: zoonosis, zoonotic (adj)Literally meaning: ?animal disease or contagious animals?Origin: Anc Greek????/zoon(=animal)?????/nosos(=disease)Coined/HistoryBy German physician Rudolf Virchow (1821-1905) who raised in a family of butchers and he...
- Psittacosis
Term: psittacosisLiterally meaning: ?state of a sick parrot?Origin: Anc Greek???????/psitaci(=parrot)+(-????)/-osis(=suffic denoting process)Coined/HistoryIn 1892 by Morange who investigated an outbreak in Paris in 1892. More than half of the avian carriers...
Biology
pandemic
Term: pandemic
Literally meaning: ?all people?
Origin: Anc Greek
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Coined/History
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Definition
Pandemic is an outbreak of infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region
- # 54.2 Infectious Disease - Syllabus 2016
10.1 Infectious diseases 10.2 Antibiotics The infectious diseases studied in this section are caused by pathogens that are transmitted from one human host to another. Some, like Plasmodium that causes malaria, are transmitted...
- Panacea
Term: panaceaLiterally meaning : ?cure all? or ?all healing? Origin Anc Greek????????/panacea(=panacea)> ?[á?/pan(=all) + /á???/acos (= therapy) Coined/HistoryPanacea Helping the Sick. by the Veronese physician J. Gazola (1716) In...
- Endemic
Term: endemic Literally meaning: ?native to? Origin: Anc Greek??-/en-(=in)?????/demos(=people, crowd, land) >???/Dio(=the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture and harvests). Coined/Historyby Hippocrates (460 BC ? ca. 370 BC) DefinitionEndemic is an...
- Zoonosis, Zoonotic
Term: zoonosis, zoonotic (adj)Literally meaning: ?animal disease or contagious animals?Origin: Anc Greek????/zoon(=animal)?????/nosos(=disease)Coined/HistoryBy German physician Rudolf Virchow (1821-1905) who raised in a family of butchers and he...
- Psittacosis
Term: psittacosisLiterally meaning: ?state of a sick parrot?Origin: Anc Greek???????/psitaci(=parrot)+(-????)/-osis(=suffic denoting process)Coined/HistoryIn 1892 by Morange who investigated an outbreak in Paris in 1892. More than half of the avian carriers...