Intestinal worms may cause severe, life threatening infection, predominantly in children in tropical and subtropical areas where people often defecate on the ground: in rural parts of Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Indonesia and Central and South America.
Decorum is proper and polite behavior. If you let out a big belch at a fancy dinner party, you're not showing much decorum. This noun is from Latin decÅrus proper, becoming, handsome, from dÃ©cor beauty, grace, which is also the source of English dÃ©cor. The corresponding adjective is decorous, meaning well-behaved in a particular situation.. Both decorum and decorous are often used to describe behavior in a classroom or courtroom.
Meaning case for safe-keeping (of papers, liquor, etc.) is from 1540s, gradually shading to mean a piece of furniture that does this. Sense of private room where advisors meet (c.1600) led to modern political meaning (1640s); perhaps originally short for cabinet council (1630s); cf. board (n.1) in its evolution from place where some group meets to the word for the group that meets there.