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In fact, it is so casual as to suggest an anti-grown-up rebelliousness because of its probable derivation from the word groupie , and it is definitely more frequent in speech than in writing.
Previous studies have demonstrated the derivation of neural cells [1–3], hematopoietic [17] and endothelial lineages [18], and cardiomyocytes [19] from hESCs.
Having heard the term gedunk for the first time and queried its meaning and derivation in a recent conversation with Midwesterners, I decided to track it myself.
An alternate derivation, spurious but appealing, was proposed to us while this article was in preparation, in a letter (8/20/1998) from Col. Frank Holan, USAF (retd.): The symbol for tungsten is W because it is Weird.
For example, one writer cites a preference for cunt over vagina , because of the latter's derivation from a Latin word meaning `sheath,' often sheath for a sword.)