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2 days ago · Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
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2 days ago · In the English language, the term Latino is a loan word from American Spanish. (Oxford Dictionaries attributes the origin to Latin-American Spanish.) Its origin is generally given as a shortening of latinoamericano, Spanish for 'Latin American'. The Oxford English Dictionary traces its usage to 1946.
1 day ago · In Spanish slang, “leche” is commonly used to refer to “milk,” but it can also have several other meanings depending on the context. Some common colloquial expressions using “leche” include “estar hasta la leche” meaning “to be fed up” or “dar algo por las leches” which loosely translates to “to ruin something.”.
1 day ago · The Oxford English Dictionary states that the Neo-Latin word clītoris likely has its origin in the Ancient Greek κλειτορίς ( kleitorís ), which means "little hill", and perhaps derived from the verb κλείειν ( kleíein ), meaning "to shut" or "to sheathe".
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4 days ago · surgery, branch of medicine that is concerned with the treatment of injuries, diseases, and other disorders by manual and instrumental means. Surgery involves the management of acute injuries and illnesses as differentiated from chronic, slowly progressing diseases, except when patients with the latter type of disease must be operated upon.
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5 days ago · autopsy, dissection and examination of a dead body and its organs and structures. An autopsy may be performed to determine the cause of death, to observe the effects of disease, and to establish the evolution and mechanisms of disease processes. The word autopsy is derived from the Greek autopsia, meaning “the act of seeing for oneself.”
5 days ago · sense organ: 1 n an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation Synonyms: receptor , sensory receptor Antonyms: effector an organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses Types: show 23 types... hide 23 types... lateral line , lateral line organ ...
