English Vocabulary: Medical Words
catatonic
Alice's parents are killed in a fire. Driven catatonic and having attempted suicide (note her bandaged wrists), she is institutionalised in Rutledge Asylum. Years later Alice is called by the White Rabbit to the aid of a radically altered Wonderland, under threat from the Red Queen, the evil despot who has enslaved its people. The Cheshire Cat is a frightening incarnation, and is her constant companion throughout the game, popping up now and again to guide the player or offer advice.
medical oddities
- halitosis → (dragon mouth) that Princeses Diana has halitosis… [Time Mag. 2001-02-05]
- flatulence → fart.
- fibrillation → the twitching of an eye.
- tinnitus → the ringing sound in the ear
- expectorate → hawking phlegm. Some Cold medicine will have the word “expectorant” on its label, meaning it soothes cough or resolve phlegm.
- horripilation → goose bumps
- brachydactylia → Having abnormally short fingers or toes.
- microcephalic → small head. some people are microcephalic, while others are macrocephalic.
medical quacks
- homeopathy → minute dosage as a cure.
- chiropractic → all illness came from the spine
- reflexology
- osteopathy
- -a nares → nostrils
- -a morphology → In the movie _Silence of the Lamb_ (1991), a moth's morphology is involved.
- -a taxonomy
- -a apoplectic → After they've spent half an hour downloading Billy-Ray, hipsters everywhere are going to be apoplectic, and they'll blame the system. [satire. Third World Blind
- -a photogenic → often used on a girl
Pschological Oddities
neurasthenic
… In imagining what might have happened, one of America's most provocative young writers, Katie Roiphe, has created a deep, richly textured fictional portrait of Alice and Dodgson: she changing from an unruly child to a bewitching adolescent, and he, a diffident, neurasthenic adult whose increasing obsession with her almost destroys him.
2004. Publisher's description of fiction Still She Haunts Me by [ Katie Roiphe ] [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Roiphe ].
neurasthenic royal is accused of making more crank calls.
Time mag's Winners and Losers Page 1. On [ Diana, Princess of Wales ] [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales ].
neurasthenic = of or relating to or suffering from [ neurasthenia ] [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neurasthenia ]; nervous breakdown.
- narcolepsy
- agnosia
- alexia
- psychotropic
- catatonia → Stunned to the point of catatonia, she wanders alone in a garden.
- hypochondria → convinced of being sick
- klismaphilia → (enema love)
- coprolalia → You need some manners. For a seemingly bright guy, you've got to realize no one is going to take you seriously if you act like the a village idiot with a bad case of copralalia. [email received]
- coprophilia → love of feces — a love bizarre!
- homophobe → aversion of homosexual
- xenophobic → fearing foreign folks
- ochlophobia
- sigmoid → The sigmoid colon is a looped section of the bowel just above the rectum. It is shaped somewhat like a question mark, hence its name.
- -a dyscalculia → clinical inability to solve math problems
- -a echolalia → autistic echoing of other people's words
- -a glossolalia
- -a melancholia
- -a memorabilia
- -a necrophilia
- -n triskelia → the symbol found in Japanese or Korean cultures, kinda like the taichi yin-yan simpbol but three-fold.
- -n swastika → an ancient symbol used as the emblem of Nazi Germany. 卐, 卍. → With swastica in my eyes, i rule the world with my vision, with totality and categorical mien, forgiving no one.
science/medical related
etiology
SARS [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome], an atypical pneumonia of unknown [ etiology ] [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiology ], was recognized at the end of February 2003.
The World Health Organization, 2003-03
- oncology → branch on tumors
- geriatrics →
- eugenics → controlled breeding. Not to be confused with genetics. Eugenics is passe, stuff of old science fiction. Today we are onto nano-biology, clones, DNA tampering, and designer humans.
- orthodontics → teeth correction, braces
- odontology → dentist shit
- dentition → The type, number, and arrangement of a set of teeth. (AHD)
- periodontics → gum desease stuff
- ophthalmology → eye stuff