- etymology - What is the origin of stat? - English Language Usage . . .
The word stat is an abbreviation of the Latin word statim, which has the meaning "instantly immediately" This usage was then generalized beyond the domain of prescriptions to refer to any action that needed to be taken immediately
- What is the origin of the suffixes statin and medin?
-stat is a very common suffix in medicine -Medin comes from the same rood as mediate, the Latin word mediāre (past participle: mediātus), to be in the middle, to intercede, + -in (it's also a peptide ) A hormone which intercedes (or up-regulates) something else can have the suffix -medin Somatomedins are hormones that promote cell growth in
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- When should ‘state’ be capitalised? - English Language Usage . . .
U S style guides From [Merriam-]Webster's Standard American Style Manual (19885): Words designating global, national, regional, or local political divisions are capitalized when they are essential elements of specific names
- What is the plural form of status? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
What is the plural form of "status"? I agree that today a similar question would be considered off-topic and probably migrated to ELL but the risk with closing under researched questions is that one day, not today, not tomorrow but maybe in six months time or in five years, this page will be deleted
- What does the phrase Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish mean?
Stay hungry = Always be curious to learn more and achieve more Stay foolish = Dare to make unconventional decision as Steve Jobs did when he quit his college to persue his quest, as Gandhi did when he adopted satyagraha against oppression, as Buffet did early in his career when he made some well calculated investments in low priced high potential companies
- Is it a City, Province, State or a District? And How to Properly . . .
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- nouns - What is the abbreviation for state? - English Language . . .
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