Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Strange Medical Words




Learning for what cause to speak medicine is kind of like wide information a second language.  On my bookshelf is a squab green Stedman's Medical Dictionary filled through almost 2,000 pages of irregular medical words.

As a practicing podiatrist, it is my work at ~s to translate a medical diagnosis beneficial to my patients like metatarsalgia into straightforward everyday English.   As a medical close examiner I learned most of these renovated challenging words.  However, my staff and I use this dictionary from time to time.

I supposition it would be interesting and educational in quest of my readers to list some rare medical terms.  Some of these stipulations I have never heard of in the sight of. I will also list some podiatric medicinal terms for fun. Maybe one light of ~ you might recognize an arfarfanart gongoozler with a bloody fipple.

Arfarfanart-adj. Very,excessively drunk

Gongoozler-n. A person who stares because hours at anything out of the ordinary

Fipple-n. The lower lip

Humdergeon-n. An quixotic illness

Gamephobia-n. A fear of espousals

Fnast-v. To pant

Curple-n. The buttocks

Bubukle-n. A red pimple

Zomotherapy-n. Treating tuberculosis with unripe meat

Xeromyron-n. Solid ointment

Ventoseness-n. Flatulence

Tittup-n. Restless mien

Tonomania-n. A mania for undergoing surgery.

Sphacelate-v. To be transformed into gangrenous.

Gangrene- n. Necrosis due to interruption, loss, or diminution of blood stock.

Necrosis- n. Death of cells, network, or an organ.

Ret-v. To macerate or expose to moisture

Ptarmic-adj. Snot-promoting.

Obex- n. A not thick layer of cerebral gray matter.

Gnathic-adj. Pertaining to the disgrace jaw

Hipshot-adj. Having one haunch lower than the other due to luxation

Kakidrosis-n. Body smell

Hepaticoclangiocholecstenterostomy- n. Surgically created join between the gallbladder and hepatic duct, and between the intestine and the gallbladder

Elfen-v. To tiptoe

Acronyx- n. An ingrown talon

Pes cavus- n. a foot through a high arch

Metatarsalgia-n. Pain in the forefoot

Onychomycosis-n. A fungal contagium of the nails

Plantar fascia –n. A sheet of filamentous tissue enclosing muscles in the solitary of the foot

Plantar Fasciotomy-n. Surgery to cut or release the plantar fascia

See granting that you can combine several of these provisions in a sentence while pronouncing them correctly.  This is the good in the highest degree way I can illustrate that oratory medical is really a second tongue. Good luck!

 

 

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