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akolouthi
  38

2nd person of the singular imperative present of the Greek verb akoloutheo , follow , go after , go with . Follow me. In the portal of Menéame appear sandals of a Greek porne preserved in the Museum of the Sex of Prague in whose sole appears this inscription. Although it seems rather that it is a copy.

  
agaláctico
  43

Technical term derived from Greek with the proprietary prefix -a and gala galaktos , milk . It is said of certain plant substances that inhibit milk production in mammals. The infusions of oregano, sage, millennial, thyme, melisa and of course parsley, wormwood, rough, pollen, basil and epazote are agalactic. . . .

  
antilitiásico
  73

Term of ethnobotany in whose semantic center is the Greek term lithos, stone. It is said of certain plants some of whose substances, according to popular tradition, avoid or help eliminate kidney or gallstones. In this line are the ponytail, the grass, the golden rod, the nettle, the willow bark or birch and the lepididide they popularly call stonebreakers.

  
fitofotosensibilizante
  30

From Greek phyton, plant, phos photos, light and Latin sensus, sense, sensation, reaction to sensory stimuli. It is said of the substances of plants that applied to the skin trigger adverse effects such as redness or burns in the presence of solar radiation. Some oils such as that of the rough, used for arthritis, cause rubefacent effects on the skin exposed to the sun.

  
dies irae, dies illa
  348

Medieval religious anthem attributed to the Italian Franciscan Thomas of Celano, companion and biographer of St. Francis of Assisi, later used by the church in the liturgy of the deceased. The majesty and terrible beauty of this Gregorian music have inspired many composers. I remember the end of Berlioz's fantastic symphony. It is of an overwhelming beauty that also reminds us of the enormous subjugation of consciences to the religious power that threatened the final judgment: Day of Wrath, that day when time will be extinguished as David and the Sibyl attest.

  
cuquín
  42

Diminutive cuckoo, also cuckoo and cuckoo in asturleonés. It is mostly used in Asturias, but it is also used in my land, something further south, with the meaning of pillín, pilluelo, cheater, cheater, who has gracejo and charm, said main and affectionately to boys and girls.

  
espacio schengen
  35

Geographical area of 26 European countries, one from the EU and some not, which have agreed to abolish internal borders, not external borders, so that between them there is free movement of people and goods. The agreement was taken in the Luxembourg city of Schengen on 14 June 1985. Subsequently, different nations have been joined. The agreement has been suspended in some special circumstances, such as this coronavirus.

  
micronesia
  37

From Greek mikros, small and nesos, island. Lots of small islands. It is a subregion of Oceania with 4 countries: Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Nauru. Also included in Micronesia are the US occupations of Guam, Wake Island and Northern Mariana Islands. The total population does not reach 350 . 000 inhabitants with many native languages such as nauruan, sonsorol, tobiano, chamorro, carolino. . . .

  
nepenthe
  63

Also nepente or nepentes, as some companions point out. From Greek ne- negative prefix and penthos, pain, affliction, misfortune : Drink of the gods, medicine against pain and melancholy, forgetting drug that Homer speaks of in the Odyssey, probably opium, which was mixed with wine. In the eighteenth century Linnaeus named a genus of carnivorous plants and climbers native to Southeast Asia, also called jar plants or monkey cups of the nepentaceae family.

  
ego sum borago quae gaudia semper ago
  152

Ancient Latin saying, known to the Roman legionnaires, also mentioned by Alonso de Herrera in his General Agriculture of the sixteenth century : "I am the borage that I always give joys". Pedanio Dioscorides Anazarbeo and Cayo Pliny Segundo the old, both from the first century, considered it antidepressant because it brightened the heart. Today we know that it stimulates adrenaline. Although what probably stimulated and anesthetized soldiers before the battles was the wine in which the plant was macerated.

  
caérsele a uno los palos del sombrajo
  41

Popular verbal thing semantic sister to hunt someone's soul at their feet, indicating amazement, surprise plus disappointment, contradiction and disappointment. Negative surprise, unexpected disappointment.

  
venezuelización
  27

In the Spains of our rights do not usually use this term perhaps because of their prosodic difficulty. They talk about Bolivarian regime, formerly Chavismo, to lash out at the current left-wing government that has raised the minimum wage and wants to raise taxes on the richest. This is why here (and I fear that in other places too) "impoverishment" is understood only of the wealthiest classes, that is, as loss of privileges.

  
tamayazo
  45

Journalistic term with which a blakless political fraud or corruption is designated in Spain such as that which took place at the madrid Community assembly of 30 June 2003 in the vote to elect the president of the community. Two Socialist Deputies (Eduardo Tamayo and María Teresa Sáez) were absent, who did not reappear. So he vanished most of the left and ruled right.

  
cumarina
  32

Toxic organic compound of some plants with carbon atoms, hydrogen and oxygen very present in the tonka bean, fruit of the dipteryx odorata, tree of the fabaceous family of French Guiana that the natives called cumarú. The compound is also contained by plants from our environment such as fatlobo, smell clover, the queen of forests and the cinnamon tree. It has a taste between cinnamon and nutmeg and anticoagulant properties especially in combination with some fungi.

  
enfermedad del trébol dulce
  28

Cow disease discovered in the 1930s by Canadian and American veterinarians. Cows died from internal or external bleeding by topizing them because of the coumarins of clovers (genus melilotus) that when enmohecer were transformed into dicumarol, a powerful anticoagulant, from which warfarin later arose.

  
-osa
  50

Technical suffix used in chemistry since the creation of the term glucose by Jean Baptiste Dumas and other French chemists of the XIX, although they should have called it gleucosa, from the Greek gleukos, sweet wine, must . It means carbohydrate, such as glucose, lactose or sucrose.

  
derias
  28

So they call in North Africa in countries such as Algeria and Libya the plant Thapsia Garganica of the apiaceous family of yellow and tiny flowers in umbels like fennel. Some identify it with the si whistle or laserpic of classical Rome, a plant highly valued as a remedy for all evils.

  
nootrópico
  44

Term introduced by Romanian physician Corneliu Giurgea in 1972, taken from Greek nous, intelligence and tropes, direction, mode, way. In the words of Giurgea it is said of drugs that improve upper brain activity by increasing cognitive, mnesic and learning function. They are also used in brain insufficiency therapies such as retinopathies, Meniere's vertigo or memory disturbances.

  
sisallar
  60

Place where sisal abounds, shrub corresponding to the salsola vermiculata that also call barrilla, caramillo, spine, soap, salt, salitron, white soda, tarrisco, zurrapapos. . . , whose ashes are rich in soda carbonate to make soap.

  
metabolismo
  44

Neologism contributed by the 19th-century German naturalist Friedrich Theodor Schwann from the Greek metabole, change, process, transformation, goal (in the middle of) and ballo (throw, throw). Set of physical-chemical processes of the cells of living beings to perform various functions such as feeding, growing, reproducing or reacting to the environment. In the cell is the basis of life, so in biology classes could never miss the prototype image of the cell. I was always struck by mitochondria.

  






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