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on oligopolist, adoarns said:
"Have to add the dual: oligopsonist." more...
on shoecabbage, adoarns said:
"Is a pair of words from two languages which sound the same but have different meanings.

For instance, English "shoe" sounds identical to French..." more...
on heterologue, adoarns said:
"Subtly different from a shoecabbage." more...
on ianfu, adoarns said:
"Japanese "comfort women"; sexual slaves during WWII provided for Japanese soldiers." more...
on ka-tzet, adoarns said:
"Term for a concentration camp current in WWII Europe, derived from the initials KZ standing in for the German konzentrationslager, meaning..." more...
on ankang, adoarns said:
"Like a psikhushka, a prison for political dissidents masquerading as mental hospital.

From ZHO." more...
on psikhushka, adoarns said:
"A psychiatric facility used to detain political prisoners under the pretext that they are mentally ill. Historically Russian, though the phenomenon..." more...
on zek, adoarns said:
"A Gulag prisoner." more...
on faux pas de coit, adoarns said:
"The misadventure, when a male is attempting intercourse, of banging the erect member either into the bed or the partner's perineum. One of the most..." more...
on setshwetla, adoarns said:
"A naked protest endemic to South Africa.

<a..." more...
on the list Violin parts, adoarns said:
"Your typical meronymous list." more...
on tire turd, adoarns said:
"Along with fenderberg, car booger, and car patty, words used in some regions to refer to the compacted snow that builds up in the wheel-well of..." more...
on word apnea, adoarns said:
"Cf. presque vu." more...
on paroemiographer, adoarns said:
"Cf. gnomologist." more...
on ignosticism, adoarns said:
"The position that the very question of whether a god or gods exist is meaningless, usually starting from the point that consistent definitions of the..." more...
on whipple, adoarns said:
"The Whipple procedure during medical school was either the thing you couldn't believe you got to assist on, or the thing you couldn't..." more...
on adoarns's profile, adoarns said:
"I have a greasemonkey script to convert the phonetic transcription of wordie at the top of every page to IPA over at <a..." more...
on parameter, adoarns said:
"I had always taken the phrase "within those parameters" to set up a metaphor of like a simulation with certain presets, and the outcome matched to..." more...
on proprioception, adoarns said:
"Discard all your fanciful notions of there being only five senses. There're at least seven, counting this and balance." more...
on the list Big Long Words , adoarns said:
"Pseudocounterantidisestablishmentarianistically?

God I love productive derivational morphology." more...
on malakomisia, adoarns said:
"Oh, I'm sure it is. The neologisms that catch on always seem to be the least affected, the most nonce-like--such as, eg, homophobe." more...
on dietrology, adoarns said:
"Quo vade." more...
on erastes, adoarns said:
"The older member of the ancient Greek pederastic union. Qv erotomenos." more...
on erotomenos, adoarns said:
"The younger member of the ancient Greek pederastic union. Qv erastes." more...
on malakomisia, adoarns said:
"My proposal for a more sensible construction meaning "someone who dislikes homosexuals." It adopts an obsolete Attic term of abuse, malakos as..." more...
on simcurity, adoarns said:
"The public ritual of showy displays that seem to add security, that is that simulate security, but in reality probably don't." more...
on the list Conflicted, adoarns said:
"Though they've adapted away from the strict "-machia" Greek ending, might I also suggest gigantomachy, titanomachy, and monarchomach." more...
on blype, adoarns said:
"Thought for sure this was a sniglet." more...
on flagellum, adoarns said:
"Also the cellular appendage used by some cells to propel themselves through fluid media." more...
on endosymbiont, adoarns said:
"Chloroplasts are also thought to be the descendants of endosymbiotic bacteria. Mitochondria and chloroplasts both have a genome separate from the..." more...
on cisternae, adoarns said:
"A cistern is also one of several areas around the base of the brain where cerebrospinal fluid collects." more...
on crypto-anarchism, adoarns said:
"An ideology that mostly pertains to the online world that seeks to maximize individual freedom and anonymity through the use of strong public-key..." more...
on kleroterion, adoarns said:
"A simple lottery device used by Athenians during the period of their democracy to randomly choose citizens for public posts. It consisted of a flat..." more...
on sortition, adoarns said:
"A method of choosing decision-makers by lottery. This is how Athenian democracy largely worked (with exceptions such as the election of..." more...
on isonomia, adoarns said:
"equality of political rights" more...
on logomisia, adoarns said:
"A strong dislike for a word, for instance that of <a..." more...
on rhinotillexis, adoarns said:
"Lit. "nose-picking." more...
on pasquinade, adoarns said:
"Noted in the etymology to be coined after the name of a Roman statue, Pasquino, which was regularly covered with scurrilous satires while..." more...
on bekos, adoarns said:
"Given that the Wikipedia article on XPG (Phrygian) notes that known inscriptions of the language seem..." more...
on chazzerai, adoarns said:
"Also seen spelled chazzerei or chazerei." more...
on sillograph, adoarns said:
"A satire, or one who writes them." more...
on skeevy, adoarns said:
"One dictionary notes the etymology: "from Italian schifo, meaning 'disgust.'" more...
on mutaween, adoarns said:
"Originally referred to the Saudi religious policemen, or enforcement officers of the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the..." more...
on kalpa, adoarns said:
"An exceptionally-long (but varying) period of time in Hindu and Buddhist thought.

The best explanation ever:

Every 100 years, a bird flies over the..." more...
on geuzennaam, adoarns said:
"A word or name for a group of people, formerly considered derogatory, which has been appropriated by that group. Eg, queer, nigger.

<a..." more...
on snow, adoarns said:
"In hospitals, means to completely gork or zonk out a patient by means of sedative or other medications." more...
on supratentorial, adoarns said:
"The tentorium is a set of membranes that divides the lower brain, including the cerebellum and brainstem, from the cerebral..." more...
on vitamin h, adoarns said:
"Haloperidol, tradename Haldol™, which is just tits for quieting down an agitated patient." more...
on disposition, adoarns said:
"In a hospital, the patient's disposition is where they go after this. To home? Nursing home? Rehab? They gots to go somewhere.

Usually..." more...
on gork, adoarns said:
"Also used simply to mean "to render very sedated."

"That guy in 304 was pretty agitated, so I gorked him with a bunch of Ativan." more...
on coruscation, adoarns said:
"Also, a symptom of having flashes of light pass before the eyes." more...
on hyperekplexia, adoarns said:
"an exaggerated startle response" more...
on stick, adoarns said:
"Used to describe injections or needle pokes for the purpose either of delivering medicine, taking a sample of blood, or of introducting a..." more...
on q sign, adoarns said:
"A negative prognostic sign: when a patient is so obtunded or moribund they simply lie there, mouth open, and tongue lolling out, in simulacrum of the..." more...
on wet, adoarns said:
"In medicine, refers to someone that is fluid-overloaded, as from heart failure. "I got called on a patient having trouble breathing. When I examined..." more...
on dry, adoarns said:
"In medicine, refers to a person who is not wet, in the sense that they're not fluid-overloaded, and can also refer to the lungs that don't sound..." more...
on mental status, adoarns said:
"A catch-all term for how awake, aware, and with-it the patient is. Often the most baffling cases are patients brought in for change in mental..." more...
on milk of amnesia, adoarns said:
"A play on the phrase milk of magnesia describing the drug propofol, used to sedate patients, which has a translucent white appearance..." more...
on ears, adoarns said:
"Slang for a stethoscope." more...
on the list House Officer Argot, adoarns said:
"Am familiar with The House of God. Real life is alternately more bizarre and less sensational." more...
on sat, adoarns said:
"The arterial blood oxygen saturation, a measure of how well the patient is getting oxygen from the air for his body. Usu. >90%. Often used in..." more...
on tube, adoarns said:
"An endotracheal tube, a breathing tube placed down someone's throat into their windpipe.

Also, to put one in a patient. "He couldn't keep up..." more...
on swan, adoarns said:
"In the hospital, a swan is a Swan-Ganz catheter, a special kind of line that snakes down the superior vena cava, into the right side..." more...
on line, adoarns said:
"In the hospital, usu. means a central line, a kind of catheter placed into one of the main veins of the body draining into the heart. These..." more...
on bolus, adoarns said:
"Most often used by house officers to mean either a fluid bolus, which is a rapid infusion of some fluid, for instance saline, usu. made to..." more...
on drip, adoarns said:
"A continuous infusion of some medicine into someone's vein. Drip medicines give a constant dose but require lots of nursing attention because it's..." more...
on cco, adoarns said:
"From the initialism DNR-CCO, which means do not resuscitate, comfort care only. A protocol that means no aggressive curative measures..." more...
on icu player, adoarns said:
"A patient whose condition is unstable enough to require intensive care." more...
on copder, adoarns said:
"A person with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Pronounced /ˌsi.oʊ.pʰi.ˈdi.ɚ/." more...
on dump, adoarns said:
"In a hospital, a dump describes when one service, exasperated with a patient and/or unable to think how to help them best, unceremoniously..." more...
on junky, adoarns said:
"A pert description of lungs that are full of rhonchi, râles, and other wet, nasty, disease sounds." more...
on vent, adoarns said:
"Short for a mechanical ventilator, a machine that provides breaths for patients through a breathing tube. To be on a vent means that..." more...
on decube, adoarns said:
"Used in the hospital in one of two ways.

To refer to bedsores, also known as decubitus ulcers.

To refer to a kind of roentgenogram of..." more...
on frog, adoarns said:
"In medical slang, used to refer to patients with advanced disease and dismal prospects who have fuckin' run outta gas." more...
on code, adoarns said:
"Short for code blue, a medical emergency that usually means someone's heart, breathing, or both, have stopped. In most hospitals a designated..." more...
on team, adoarns said:
"Synonymous with code, referring to a medical emergency that requires immediate intervention, presumably named so because there's a set team of..." more...
on cow, adoarns said:
"A computer on wheels, indispensable when the medical record is stored electronically." more...
on tap, adoarns said:
"To tap in medical parlance is to access and remove fluid from an internal compartment, usually but not always an abnormal fluid collection.

A..." more...
on fly, adoarns said:
"In medical intensive care units, to fly means to be able to withstand removal of a breathng tube more or less permanently. I.e., "Ms Bucket..." more...
on copremesis, adoarns said:
"In the hospital, I have had the misfortune of seeing people go through this. It is one of the few things that left me on the limb of vomiting myself." more...
on the list House Officer Argot, adoarns said:
"House officers, ie medical residents, are doctors-in-training who assume day-to-day care of patients in teaching hospitals. As in any closed..." more...
on treat-and-street, adoarns said:
"The emergency medicine physician's motto." more...
on snf, adoarns said:
"Pronounced /snɪf/, stands for skilled nursing facility, or what the public usually thinks of as nursing homes.

Residents start..." more...
on celestial discharge, adoarns said:
"Meaning a patient's death." more...
on spin, adoarns said:
"In house officer slang, means to send a patient for spiral CT, most often used to look for evidence of a pulmonary embolism." more...
on olisbos, adoarns said:
"My new favorite synonym for dildo, besides godemiche. Liddell-Scott-Jones glosses this in Latin as penis coriaceus, which as near as I can..." more...
on the list Time Keeps Marching On, adoarns said:
"The half-as-long counterpart to the popular fortnight is the sennight." more...
on baisecul, adoarns said:
"Lit. (FRA) a "kiss-ass." more...
on the list derogatory terms I should use more often, adoarns said:
"Try baisecul as well." more...
on bekos, adoarns said:
"Cf. forbidden experiment." more...
on hakapik, adoarns said:
"NOR, denotes a seal club, often equipped with a hook at the business end with which to haul away the seal carcass after clubbing." more...
on 'ndranghetista, adoarns said:
"Pronounced with syllabic n:
/n.draŋ.ge.tis.ta/." more...
on the list If I only had a brain, adoarns said:
"Factoid: the single most common response of patients who have just had a CT or MRI scan of their head, as I'm about to give them results, is "So did..." more...
on bemalist, adoarns said:
"The code for Ancient Greek as standardized by ISO 639-3." more...
on depucelate, adoarns said:
"Late LAT pucella, virgin: to take someone's virginity." more...
on forbidden experiment, adoarns said:
"1. Take some infants and rip them from their mothers.

2. Bring them up so that they want nothing, but never speak a word to them. Not a single..." more...
on the list Demonyms, adoarns said:
"The semi-official term for a resident from Michigan (USA) is michigander." more...
on bemalist, adoarns said:
"During Alexander's march over the East, the bemalists were in charge of measuring overland distances by—seriously—counting their..." more...
on glomerulus, adoarns said:
"The only microanatomical term harder to pronounce than glomerulus is glomerular." more...
on lexome, adoarns said:
"Sionnach: I'll put you down as a misomist. :-)" more...
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