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sinistrorse
adjective
(from a point of view at the center of the spiral) rising spirally in a counterclockwise manner, as a stem.
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Sinistrorse 鈥渞ising spirally in a counterclockwise manner鈥� comes from Latin 蝉颈苍颈蝉迟谤艒谤蝉耻蝉 鈥渢urned leftwards,鈥� which is a contraction of sinister 鈥渓eft鈥� and versus 鈥渢urned.鈥� Perhaps because of avoidance of taboo words, although Latin sinister survives today as Italian sinistro, most Romance languages replaced their 鈥渓eft鈥� words with borrowings from other languages. Portuguese esquerdo and Spanish izquierdo are either borrowed from Basque ezker 鈥渓eft鈥� or derived from a pre-Indo-European language of the Iberian peninsula. Meanwhile, French gauche comes from a Germanic-origin verb meaning 鈥渢o turn, veer.鈥� Sinistrorse was first recorded in English in the late 1850s.
how is sinistrorse used?
They walked halfway around the column, and Julie peered up until the fog shrouded it far above. It seemed to extend forever! She turned back to the base and sighted a broad stairway winding its way up the pedestal in sinistrorse fashion, right to left.
His knees buckled and ached when he negotiated the turret’s sinistrorse stone staircase. A sneeze caught him by surprise, and as he put his hand to his thin twig-like nose, another came upon him. His pointed boot slipped off the step causing him to skid down the last few stairs…
iatrogenic
adjective
caused by the diagnosis, manner, or treatment of a physician.
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Iatrogenic 鈥渃aused by the treatment of a physician鈥� is a compound based on the Ancient Greek-origin combining forms iatro- 鈥渄octor, healer, medicine鈥� and -genic 鈥減roducing or causing.鈥� Iatro- comes from Ancient Greek 颈腻迟谤贸蝉 鈥渉ealer,鈥� from 颈芒蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o heal,鈥� which is also the source of geriatric, pediatrician, psychiatry, and the name Jason. The element -genic comes from Ancient Greek -驳别苍脓蝉 鈥渂orn, produced,鈥� which is also the source of cosmogenic, hallucinogenic, and the name Eugene. Iatrogenic was first recorded in English in the early 1920s.
how is iatrogenic used?
Sometime[s] these iatrogenic injuries are accidental. But sometimes, because of the limits of medical technology, they can be inevitable. Now, a medical researcher in Seattle thinks he has a way to eliminate some of the inevitable ones.
测茅-测茅
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of the rock-'n'-roll music, fashions, entertainment, etc., of the 1960s, especially in France.
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驰茅-测茅 鈥渙f the French rock-鈥檔鈥�-roll culture of the 1960s鈥� is a borrowing from French that, in turn, is adapted from English yeah-yeah. Yeah is a variant of either yea or yes; yea (pronounced as 鈥測ey鈥�) comes from Old English 驳脓补 鈥渟o,鈥� while yes is a compound of 驳脓补 and Old English 蝉墨 鈥渂e it.鈥� A similar shift in meaning happened in some Romance languages, with Latin 蝉墨c 鈥渟o鈥� becoming Portuguese sim and Spanish 蝉铆 鈥測es.鈥� The process of a borrowed word getting borrowed back into its language of origin is called reborrowing, and another well-known example is how English animation was adapted in Japanese as anime, which was itself borrowed back into English as anime. 驰茅-测茅 was first recorded in English in the early 1960s.
how is 测茅-测茅 used?
While other French singers from Hardy’s 驰茅-测茅 generation were a flash in the pan, she has endured because she was different, Jean-Pierre Pasqualini says.
鈥淚 was really inspired by 鈥�60s girl groups,鈥� [Charli XCX] says. 鈥淓specially 测茅-测茅 pop from France, like Brigitte Bardot and Sylvie Vartan.鈥�