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English Vareb in Gujrati mining9/1/2023 ![]() I have previously dealt with photophoresis when discussing photopheresis, which first appeared in 1984. Box 1: A list of vahanas (vehicles in the shape of animals) of Hindu deities (from J E van Lohuizen-de Leeuw, 1955) Modern languages in the Indo-Aryan group have similar words for a tiger: bagh in Assamese, Bangla, Hindi, and Odia vagh in Gujarati and wagh in Marathi. The OED discounts this as a possible influence, but I like to think that tigerish symbolism might be relevant. ![]() The origin of the brand name is not known, but the Sanskrit word for a tiger was viagra (Box 1). Sildenafil was discovered in 1995, patented in 1996, and marketed as Viagra. Table 1: Biomedical words (n=23) in the OED for which the earliest citations are from 1996–9 inclusive (out of a total of 248) I have found no antedatings of these entries. This week, as last week, in my pursuit of new biomedical words that have appeared in the last 50 years, I am investigating words first listed in the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) over a four-year period, this time from 1996 to 1999 inclusive (Table 1).
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