how did the poliomyelitis get its name?
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because it occurs more in children
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it comes from the fruit "baneberry" which was a poisonous fruit given to enemies in old England.\nThe actual expression is "bane of my life", meaning "he will be the death of me.
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He invented the vaccination for polio.
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because the names we use today come from the names used by the ancient greeks and romans and they tended to name the constellations with characters from their mythology.
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The word is from the Latin virus referring to poison and other noxious things, first loaned into English in 1392. Virulent, from Latin virulentus "poisonous"\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus#Etymology
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because it comes from the latin word for island: ISOLA. when the word got anglicised the s remained.
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The name "earwig" is generally said to originate from an old European belief that earwigs crawl into people's ears and lay eggs in the brain. This etymology is given by the Oxford English Dictionary, which states unequivocally that the name is derived from Old English éare, "ear", and wicga, "insect", "from the notion that it penetrates into the head through the ear." Earwigs do tend to prefer being in hidden places, and this etymology parallels the unambiguous French name perce-oreille ("ear piercer"). Another hypothesis is that the word comes from the Late Latin auricula, owing to the ancient use of pulverized earwigs as medicine to treat diseases of the ear. A third explanation is that it is an alteration of "ear-wing", after the shape of the hind wings when unfolded.
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"Where did the name ‘dragonfly’ originate? \nAnswer: We have not been able to find a definitive answer to this question. One interesting theory about its origin, however, can be found in a book written by Eden Emanuel Sarot in 1958 entitled Folklore of the Dragonfly: A Linguistic Approach. He theorized that the name dragonfly actually came about because of an ancient Romanian Folktale. In the folktale, the Devil turned a beautiful horse ridden by St. George (of St. George and the dragon fame) into a giant, flying insect. The Romanian names the people supposedly refed to this giant insect (when translated into English) mean ‘St. George’s Horse’ or, more commonly, ‘Devil’s Horse.’ According to Sarot, the peasantry of that time actually viewed the Devil’s Horse as a giant fly and that they may have started referring to it as the ‘Devil’s Fly’ (instead of Devil’s Horse). He stated that the Romanian word for Devil was "drac," but that drac was also the Romanian word for dragon. He thought that eventually the Romanian name for the Devil’s Fly was erroneously translated to the English Dragon Fly and this eventually evolved into the "dragonfly!"  "
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Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili is his given name. In 1913, He changed his name to Josef Stalin. 'Stalin' in English means 'steel'
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Apparently as a reference to Christopher Columbus.\n\nFrom the site below:\nOrigin of the Name Washington, District of Columbia - The name Washington was to honor the first president of the USA, George Washington. The name Columbia is in reference to Christopher Columbus.
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Polio is a virus that, in its worst cases, affects the entire body. Paralytic polio, as its name implies, causes muscle paralysis - and can even result in death. In paralytic polio, the virus leaves the intestinal tract and enters the bloodstream, attacking the nerves (in abortive or asymptomatic polio, the virus usually just stays in the intestinal tract). The virus may affect the nerves governing the muscles in the limbs and the muscles necessary for breathing, causing respiratory difficulty and paralysis of the arms and legs.\n\nSo, removing the legs would not remove the polio.
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I looked it up on Yahoo and found nothing.  In addition, I'm a well-read med student and I've never heard of it.  Are you sure you have the name straight?
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There is a madsci article about this question at: http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb98/888691550.Ph.r.html\n\nHope that helps...the site discusses the hypothesized origins...
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The Name we use today derives from the Pyramid of Pepy I at Saqqara, which is Mennufer (the good place), or Coptic Menfe. Memphis is the Greek translation. But the City was originally Ineb-Hedj, meaning "The White Wall". \n\nSome sources indicate that other versions of the name may have even translated to our modern name for the country, Egypt. During the Middle Kingdom, it was Ankh-Tawy, or "That Which Binds the Two Lands".
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Chicken pox is far too old a disease to be able to answer that question but here's some stuff about the history of it:\n\nOne history of medicine book claims Giovanni Filippo (1510–1580) of Palermo gave the first description of varicella (chickenpox). Subsequently in the 1600s, an English physician named Richard Morton described what he thought was a mild form of smallpox as "chicken pox." Later, in 1767, a physician named William Heberden, also from England, was the first physician to clearly demonstrate that chickenpox was different from smallpox. However, it is believed the name chickenpox was commonly used in earlier centuries before doctors identified the disease.\n\nThere are many explanations offered for the origin of the name chickenpox:\n\nthe specks that appear looked as though the skin was picked by chickens, \n\nthe disease was named after chick peas, from a supposed similarity in size of the seed to the lesions \n\nSamuel Johnson suggested that the disease was "no very great danger," thus a "chicken" version of the pox \n\nthe term reflects a corruption of the Old English word, "giccin", which meant "itching
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It's originally Gelaye, and is from France.  It was a Huguenot name.
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Yeah there is a lot of debate on where it originally came from. This is all I could really find:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids#Origin_of_HIV\n\n(I can't believe that person copy and pasted the whole article from Wikipedia!! lol)