Favorite science / medical word

[AStudent]

Morula

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[DrKitty]

pheochromocytoma

 

[Em1]

juxtacrine

 

[KAI1927]

Meniscus

 

[MollyMalone]

borborygmi

 

[DrLalich]

Frenulum

 

[LadyWolverine]

Frenulum

LOL!!!

Coelomate or blastocoel

 

[AStudent]

LOL!!!

Coelomate or blastocoel

I see your blastocoel, and raise you a trophectoderm.

Death to the weasels!

 

[GujjuNo1]

Doctor <<mylastname>>

 

[Shodddy18]

smegma

 

[AStudent]

Doctor <<mylastname>>

(two words)

 

[Depakote]

envaginate

moiety

 

[thefafo]

ping pong bi bi mechanism

 

[C.P. Jones]

buckminsterfullerene ...i guess, i'm sure there's better, but that's it for now

 

[drmota]

hippocampus
-mota

 

[angietron3000]

buckminsterfullerene ...i guess, i'm sure there's better, but that's it for now

hehe, i wrote a secondary essay about wanting to meet bucky fuller

i'd say apoptosis

 

[swim2006]

Phospolamban

 

[QuikClot]

"Nuclear envelope." I always thought it sounded like a kick-ass rock band. Their first album would be "Selectively Permeable."

 

[Keg]

backside attack

way too many orgo jokes made in the day over that one

 

[RxnMan]

"Nuclear envelope." I always thought it sounded like a kick-ass rock band. Their first album would be "Selectively Permeable."

That's hilarious.

How about pneumothorax or thoracotomy?

 

[Depakote]

fistula

 

[jebus]

smegma

That's probably my favorite one, too. My second: sputum.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

tracheotomy

 

[angietron3000]

"Nuclear envelope." I always thought it sounded like a kick-ass rock band.

i totally wanted to start an electroclash band when i learned about "electronegativity"

 

[thirdunity]

Proctonaut


OK, I made that up... but among my friends, as an insult, it's stuck... "He's such a proctonaut."

Something else we call people is "autoumbilicologist". Autoumbilicologists are usually found in coffeehouses, working on their third latte, and crying over the state of postmodernism.

 

[pagemmapants]

This isn't QUITE a single word, but I like using "x" as an infix to abbreviate words. . .

examples:
Reaction = Rxn
Function = Fxn

I get lazy and extend it to Trnscpxn, Trnslaxn, etc.

 

[golftrippy]

my favorite anatomy word is MEATUS!...a particular part of male anatomy

Proctonaut


OK, I made that up... but among my friends, as an insult, it's stuck... "He's such a proctonaut."

Something else we call people is "autoumbilicologist". Autoumbilicologists are usually found in coffeehouses, working on their third latte, and crying over the state of postmodernism.

 

[Moto]

Carcinogen

 

[AStudent]

terminal


Could mean computer station, could be side of a mRNA chain, could mean you're going to die....

 

[adcomm]

borborygmi

 

[ahumdinger]

It's a tie between Wenckebach AV Block (pronounced "winky-bock") and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (I guess not so funny if your name is Steven...)

 

[Depakote]

It's a tie between Wenckebach AV Block (pronounced "winky-bock") and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (I guess not so funny if your name is Steven...)

On that note:

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

I just like the way it sounds.

 

[Queenshawtii]

Mitochondria

 

[CopperStripes]

phospatidylinositol

 

[InNotOf]

"Nuclear envelope." I always thought it sounded like a kick-ass rock band. Their first album would be "Selectively Permeable."

lol. When I took genetics, my lab partner and I were always thinking of genetic band names. After studying mitosis, we thought that the Sister Chromatids would be a great name for a girl band. Breeding fruit flies brought about Drosophila Melanogaster for a death metal artist. When we worked with restriction enzymes (EcoRI, HindIII), we came up with Hind and the Plasmids.

 

[MollyMalone]

borborygmi

You stole my word! Think of your own word!

 

[inflamesdjk02]

Diarrhea.

Cha cha cha!

 

[Whootman]

buckminsterfullerene ...i guess, i'm sure there's better, but that's it for now

I was totally gonna say that! Good call.

 

[dwave]

piloerection

 

[Orthodoc40]

Sartorius

 

[riceman04]

STOP!!!!!!
What's the point...that is sooooooooooooooooooooo...ugh

 

[Dr. Pepper]

On that note:

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

I just like the way it sounds.

On that note, my vote goes for encephalopathy...and if I have three words, bovine spongiform encephalopathy. It's a way to sound smart and a great icebreaker.

Dr. P "Hi, I'm Dr. Pepper. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. See, I'm smart."

 

[Rjuza333]

orchiomegaly

<large _______> fill in the rest, root word is orchi or orchio

 

[SuzieQ3417]

fistula

Oh! That's my favorite too! Wait, that probably sounds weird.

My favorite non-science word has always been "nefarious". Not sure why, but I just like the way it rolls off the tongue...its such a fancy way to say vile (isn't there someone on SDN with the name Nefarious?)

 

[bootz]

dam methylase

 

[Renoir]

Giardia lamblia (a favorite insult amongst the nerd crew)

also vaginalis, as in "dont be such a..."

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

Arrhenius...because it sounds like Erroneous. "Now lets use the erroneous equation"

As far as nerdy band names go, I always thought Absolute Zero would be uber cool

 

[tacrum43]

"Nuclear envelope." I always thought it sounded like a kick-ass rock band. Their first album would be "Selectively Permeable."

I think "Millimeters of Mercury" would be good name too.

edit: I guess my favorite scientific term is Helicobactor pylori, whenever it comes up in conversation (like if someone mentions an ulcer or something, I don't just name drop) my non-science friends seem impressed. Or bored. It depends.

 

[medfool24]

glomerulus.

 

[saxquiz]

oomycote