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From Persian yasmin via Arabic. kan/jan = from Persian khan (خان) meaning "inn", derives from Middle Persian hʾn' (xān, “house”) an honorific title from Turko-Mongol, adapted to Persian; nenúfar: Water-lily. From Persian nilofer, niloofar, niloufar, via Arabic naylufar. roque = rook (chess piece), from Persian رخ rukh via Arabic ...
"A history of cancer chemotherapy." Cancer research 68.21 (2008): 8643-8653. Online. Faguet, Guy B. "A brief history of cancer: age‐old milestones underlying our current knowledge database." International journal of cancer 136.9 (2015): 2022-2036. online, down to 1942. Hajdu, Steven I. "A note from history: landmarks in history of cancer ...
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Cancer DALYs attributable to 11 Level 2 risk factors globally in 2019. [130] Cancer prevention is defined as active measures to decrease cancer risk. [131] The vast majority of cancer cases are due to environmental risk factors. Many of these environmental factors are controllable lifestyle choices. Thus, cancer is generally preventable. [132]
Laburar (Rioplatense Spanish), from Italian lavorare, = "to work" Mafioso. Criminal. From "Mafioso". Milanesa. Food. From "Milanese" (a food made with meat and bread). Mina. (Buenos Aires Lunfardo), an informal word for woman (from Lombard dialect) Mortadela. Food. From "Mortadella" (a food made from pork and chicken)
Search for titles containing the word or using the prefix: acanthus etc. G ἄκανθος (ákanthos) thorny, spiny: Acanthus plant; Parorchis acanthus, a flatworm Munida acantha, a squat lobster; prickly ceratina, Ceratina acantha spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias; Reinhardt's snake-eater, Polemon acanthias cotton thistle, Onopordum acanthium
By comparison, another common metaphor, comparing cancer to a "journey" was "less likely to lead to feelings of guilt or failure". [10] In a study conducted in 2003 stated that patients using war-related terminology to describe their breast cancer had higher rates of depression and "poorer quality of life". [11]
An adoption detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who looks into historic records to locate persons of interest. Clients are children suffering from genealogical bewilderment with a desire to learn something about their genetic antecedents by tracing family lineages to become enlightened about their ancestral social and cultural heritage; discover the geographical niche from which ...