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Gut

Post author:luzapilo
Post published:July 16, 2019
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Old English guttas (plural) "bowels, entrails," literally "a channel," related to geotan "to pour," from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from PIE root *gheu- "to pour." Related to Middle Dutch gote, Dutch goot,…

Lung

Post author:luzapilo
Post published:October 1, 2021
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Long chain of origins: Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic lunganjo (enlargement of lungo) = the light organ, from Proto-Indo-European leng = not heavy, agile, nimble, whence ultimately also light. So called perhaps because in a cook pot lungs…

Skin

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Post published:July 23, 2019
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E (Anglo-saxon): scinn = skin

Skull

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Post published:July 23, 2019
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E (Anglo-Saxon): skulle = a bowl.

Socket

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Post published:July 23, 2019
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E. (old English): socket = spearhead; from old French soc = ploughshare. Later the meaning was transferred to mean a sheath or holder, the hollow into which something fits.

Tongue

Post author:luzapilo
Post published:July 24, 2019
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English (Anglo-Saxon) tunge = tongue.

Tooth

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Post published:July 24, 2019
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English (Anglo-Saxon) toth = tooth.

Vancomycin

Post author:luzapilo
Post published:July 24, 2019
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E. vanquish = to defeat, and Gr. mykes = fungus. Vancomycin is a "last resort" antibiotic that was created to kill strains of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which were resistant to…