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Mine is 'pearly penile papules' as it sounds like a fancy magic spell.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Toxic megacolon. Sounds like a metal band.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Oooh, good call! It totally does. I bet a Toxic Megacolon show would have a wild and kickass mosh pit.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mine is Omentum.

I went to med school for a grand total of one semester before I realized it wasn't for me. But during that semester I went through Gross Anatomy in which you dissect a cadaver bit by bit over the course of (IIRC) 8 weeks. Anyway in the abdominal cavity lies the greater omentum, a yellow net-like contraption that basically spans the stomach & intestines. It's super cool looking, probably my favorite structure I encountered in gross anatomy.

My least favorite thing about gross anatomy - other than that one really stinky cadaver - was Netter. Oh my god I felt like that text became an extension of my body, I was never not buried in it, along with so many lists of mnemonics. I still remember the mnemonic Roman Togas Don't Cover Balls to name the parts of the brachial plexus (Roots, Trunks, Divisions, Cords, and Branches).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My words are taken so imma do a phrase

β€œFECAL VOMITING”

Like many others, could be a band name. Grindcore, probably. I imagine one of the worst experiences to go though. Vomiting is already terrible… butt now there’s shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Worm rot 😍

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Synesthesia. That or prosopagnosia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, I've never encountered anyone else using the latter.

Did you know that Brad Pitt claims it?

edit: So do I, in case anyone thinks I'm being disparaging.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hypopotomonstrososqepideliophobia. The phobia of long words

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"Endocannabinoid system". It makes us sound like we just evolved a system specifically for processing THC.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Priapism. Gotta check for it in trauma patients.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you for this. My kind of band!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fistula.

Sounds sexual, but very much isn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well, not with that attitude!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Free. As in free healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis - a rare disease that a friend has.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Any of the big compound medical words are fun to say and construct IMO. Adrenocorticotropic, deoxyribonucleic, those kinda words. They seem big and scary but they’re quite descriptive and once you know the β€œformula” behind them it’s not too bad. Maybe not the most fun words but I feel good every time I can use one and deploy it like it’s no big deal (ie my mouth doesn’t fuck it up). It’s like executing a big combo with your mouth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Pericardium.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Amenorrhea and hyponatremia. I do also like orchidectomy, but I am less comfortable repeating it over and over than the others - it feels like it’ll be taken as a threat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Spastic colon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Idk if it's medical or more psychological but the term for when your hear a word so many times it loses meaning is one of my favorite phrases in the English language.

Semantic satiation

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eptifabatide. My favorite drug name and people have a hard time with that p to t transition apparently, but it rolls off the tongue for me. Abciximab is another good one, but I'm pretty sure someone just wanted a name to start with ABC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like ondansetron ... I just picture a dancing robot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always just pictured Santa Clause.

"On, Comet! Ondansetron! On, Donner and Blitzen!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ooh I love this!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Echolalia

Or vagina. I really like vagina, and the word vagina.

But echolalia is more fun to say. It's like tintinnabulation or brobdingnagian in that regard, despite being shorter. But the sound of the word works so neatly with the meaning of the word.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

purulent leakage, also known as pussy leakage (i.e., leakage involving pus)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Supposedly a lung infection caused by inhaling very fine volcano dust. Technically invented by a group of word puzzle fans, but it's appeared in dictionaries.

This might also be the first time since I learned it (30+ years ago) that it's been even close to relevant in a conversation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I was a kid it was all about antidisestablishmentarianism and that's also still quite relevant

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sacroiliac and coccyx.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've always thought "hemoglobin," "ankylosing spondylitis," "rectocele," and "postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome" were fun to say. There's definitely more medical words I like, but I've got mad brain fog, so I'm not able to come up with much at the moment. Which is a major bummer!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Lol as a medical person myself, reading all the comments her is so hilarious and refreshing. Gives me different perspective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Laparoscopic Appendectomy. Or as the doctors like to call it, a Lappy-Appy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Agalmatophilia

It's the paraphilia of being sexually attracted to statues. Like stone marble statues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hypochondria

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Amyloidosis

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

suppuration

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

metacarpals cuz it sounds like some shit a european philosopher from the 19th century wrote a 2000 page thesis on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Blindsight and Echopraxia.

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