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.
Decorous for a time had another meaning as wellâfitting or appropriateâbut that now-obsolete sense seems to have existed for only a few decades in the 17th century. Decorous derives from the Latin word decorus, an adjective created from the noun decor, meaning beauty or grace. Decor is akin to the Latin verb decÄre (to be fitting), which is the source of our adjective decent. It is only fitting, then, that decent can be a synonym of decorous.