Favorite science / medical word

[kirexhana]

vasectomy!















just kidding guys , i think i'll go with sonicator cuz it's just sounds like a really cool weapon to non-science people.

Someone: So what are you up to today?

Me: I was just going to clean the sonicator.

Someone: You plan out days to clean your toothbrush?

ok, maybe not a REALLY cool weapon.

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[LO281OK]

Don't really remember what it means other than dealing with the liquid-gas boundary...

fugacity

 

[contulusa]

stopcock...


....i love gen chem

 

[Chronic Student]

Goobernaculum, Priapism or Sequestrum and Involucrum. I can't decide!

 

[Mutt]

anatidaephobia

 

[curlykid]

I was totally gonna say that! Good call.

haha excellent, buckminsterfullerene is name I gave the moose my sis gave to me. i call him buckyball for short or just plain bucky

 

[Rockhouse]

Corpus Cavernosum

Kinda sounds like it should be a word that describes cave diving.....

and at the same time... it kinda is about cave diving.

 

[Rockhouse]

Oh, and goggle. Say that word after a few drinks, you'll laugh for... minutes.

 

[Doctormo24]

Angioplasty

 

[TimmyTheWonderD]

HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA!

 

[doubleplay]

ERCP

endoscopic.retrograde.colangio.pancreatography

 

[nikibean]

floccularnodular.


Say it three times fast. Then take a shot for every time you don't say it right. Then look up what it controls in your brain.

And yes, I'll (giggle) go there:

*sphincter*

 

[browniegirl86]

I always liked:

phlebotomy
sphygmomanometer
Escherichia (E. coli = M. C. Escher??)

 

[greytmedic]

Fatty Fa/Fa Rat

I sometimes use it to describe pt's I have on the ambulance.

 

[registered user]

Backeotomy. As in, "Doctor said I need a backeotomy."

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

smegma

I had a Jewish health teacher who used to really stretch this one out..

sccchhhhmegma

I like os!

 

[Brainsucker]

There is no question: splanchnic. And to an earlier poster, there are other meatuses than the penile one, the internal and external auditory meatuses, for example.

 

[rup47]

spondylolisthesis

 

[Orthonut]

That's hilarious.

How about pneumothorax or thoracotomy?

I see your pneumothorax and I raise you a crepitus.

Also, *sacculitis*

 

[MrBurns10]

I'm going to name my first son Axon Hillock. He's going to become a rock star, most likely lead guitar. How can you not with a name like that?

 

[CenteredDoc]

"Son of Sevenless" and "Bride of Sevenless"
these are two proteins involved in the formation of eye color in Drosophila. I've always liked these names

 

[DF38]

Either acromioclavicular or archenteron.

 

[riceman04]

It's nice that yall like medicine, but do yall really have to do this?....kinda weird.

 

[popbirch]

I second Gubernaculum (sp?) another good one is palatovaginal canal. They are holes in the palatine bone. So it always makes me think dirty thoughts about putting those two places of two different people close together.

 

[Em1]

"Son of Sevenless" and "Bride of Sevenless"
these are two proteins involved in the formation of eye color in Drosophila. I've always liked these names

On that note, Sonic Hedgehog!

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

It's nice that yall like medicine, but do yall really have to do this?....kinda weird.

how dare you

 

[SurfingDoctor]

Mastication

 

[drmota]

otorrhea

good call. i change my answer to that.
-mota

 

[LizzyM]

Erythroblastosis fetalis

 

[C.P. Jones]

On that note, Sonic Hedgehog!

that's quality right there...i'm still sticking to buckminsterfullerene, but sonic will take second for me

 

[sbs152]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the TATA box yet.


I'm new to this forum, looks like a great place to procrastinate at work

 

[jebus]

I'm new to this forum, looks like a great place to procrastinate at work

Ha ha! I think this ought to be the forum's new slogan.

 

[SuzieQ3417]

It's nice that yall like medicine, but do yall really have to do this?....kinda weird.

Of course its weird...that's what makes it so funny!

 

[Beau Geste]

Of course its weird...that's what makes it so funny!

dyspepsia -

disorder of the Pepsi?

 

[eagleeye]

"A little bit of <methylenedioxymethamphetamine>."
Another word I like is alpha-ketoglutarate.

 

[Risa]

*whew* i just flipped through this thread racked with anxiety that my word would be taken. it's not! and so, i present to you:

ZONA PELLUCIDA

 

[shahalam]

i cant believe that PERINEUM was not taken....i never thought there would be a scientific name for gooch

 

[horatiod]

to revive a post from the dead...

cumulus oophorus

that is all

 

[olemissbabydoc]

fetus in fetu

it's just awesome...

 

[HumbleMD]

i cant believe that PERINEUM was not taken....i never thought there would be a scientific name for gooch

or taint (there was a whole SNL skit about a man who had is perineum removed). Will Ferrel referred to it as his "fleshy fun zone"

 

[annaconda]

It's a toss-up:

ankylosing spondylitis (so rhythmic!), or

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (so unpronounceable!)

 

[BellyDancingDoc]

impacted

 

[SoFla62]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the TATA box yet.


I'm new to this forum, looks like a great place to procrastinate at work

Yeah I was gonna go with the TATA box, you beat me to it.

 

[Dr.Acula]

Psuedo-Penis!

 

[el.harpo]

Otolaryngology

Try saying that 3 times in a row as fast as you can without screwing up...

 

[EdCadore]

phalanges

 

[HumbleMD]

Yeah I was gonna go with the TATA box, you beat me to it.

As a biochemist, I'm going to have to agree with TATA box.

 

[TimeResonance]

zwitterion

 

[asunshine]

yes! no one said chylothorax yet!

and....logorrhea (love the "diarrhea of the mouth" mental image)

 

[A Tree]

hematopoiesis

and for a pun: "hematopoietic justice"

Also a favorite: PNAS, as in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, often pronounced, "pee-nass"