List some of your favorite science/medical-related terms

[GWD]

Favorites:

anastomosis
episiotomy
brachial plexus avulsion
tortuous
asymptote

Not a favorite:

iatrogenesis

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[ToStrikeInfinit]

apoptosis
sonic hedgehog
Fingers of God

 

[StIGMA]

autophagy

loquacious (drosophila names rock)

 

[strangeglove]

canal of Schlemm
rectal columns of Morgagni
and if we're including Drosophila genes: cheap date

 

[GWD]

*cringes at the Drosophiliacs on behalf of all geneticists around the world*

anatomical snuffbox
dimples of Venus
lymphangiogenesis
pertubation
funded


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maybe I'm the King of the Geeks, but I love the vernacular

 

[Ariodant]

arabidopsis flower gene: Superman
another form of Superman: Clark Kent
suppressor of Superman: Kryptonite

You gotta love the plant people

 

[biophysicianai]

pareunia
dyspareunia

 

[cyclin M]

cyclin M

 

[Doctor&Geek]

Without question:

borborygmi

 

[mmc48]

gubernaculum

 

[Calf]

Parthenogenesis!

 

[Synplast]

squamous
...can't think of anything else right now

not medically relevant:
cummingtonite
amorphallus
f00f

 

[xanthines]

Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia. It just rolls off the tongue.

-X

 

[xcrunner01]

Levator labii superioris alaeque nasi

what a mouthful!

 

[gclax30]

Tuberosity

Ramus

Reed Sternberg- sounds like a tv news anchor

 

[Vader]

Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Guillain-Barre syndrome
neurosarcoidosis
neurocysticercosis
pretty much any neurological disease

if you can pronounce neurologic disease names correctly, it makes you seem quite knowledgeable...

 

[echod]

SEVERE ACUTE respiratory syndrome............we need to emphasize that it's very severe

 

[Vader]

volvulus
Pancoast tumor/Horner's syndrome
paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

 

[cyclin M]

obese

 

[Kinocilium]

myasthenia gravis

 

[gbwillner]

Anthracosis
Paracolic gutter
Xanthogranuloma
Legionaire's Disease

Holy Roman Empire

 

[britishmafia]

It's ironic - I'm reading the book "Body of Work" by Christine Montross, and she tends to focus a lot on the beauty or disgust of different medical terms (specifically those in anatomy).

Great read, by the way.

 

[QofQuimica]

Without question:

borborygmi

Good choice.

I like atelectasis (how it sounds, not seeing patients who have it ) Also, pheochromocytoma. Pheo for short. It's such a cute, rhythmic name.

 

[glutacidecarb]

Mossy fibers
Arbor Vitae
Hillus
Dentate Gyrus
Choroid Plexus
Astroglia

I wish I actually knew anatomy.

 

[Ok2Panic]

Thamalocortical dysrhythmia!

 

[KaiserMonkey]

Infundibulum

 

[parafilm]

TATA box
cell blebbing

Who comes up with this stuff?

 

[Myempire1]

gomer ("gome," for short)
cauda equina
coincidence detection
prostitute's pupils (a.k.a Argyll Robertson pupils)

 

[dmblue]

callipygian

 

[gujubond]

Tuberosity

Totally agree,

especially when said with an Irish accent

 

[Kickback]

sternocleidomastoid

 

[Drexon]

Here's some of my favorite ones
Decapentaplegic
MAD : Mother's Against Decapentaplegic clever scientists
Miles Apart (gene)

 

[lens]

Went looking through the archives and found this gem of a thread. Decided to bump it up to see if there was any further interest.

On a related note, how do you all pronounce "apoptosis"? The pathology attendings who taught our basic science classes (years ago for me, now) say appoe-TOH-sis, but everyone else in the world seems to say "ay-pop-tosis" or "ah-pop-tosis" -- any preferences here?

 

[erikreinertsen]

I heard an amazing story (unsure about veracity) about a molecular bio conference. A student had discovered some novel protein which had high levels of activity and folding for a short period of time, after which it underwent a conformational change and became dormant and quite stable. In fact, it was so stable that he named the protein "tenure" all these faculty became offended and there was all this drama... haha.

 

[whiteshadodw]

since we were talking about cell signalling and crap in Arabidopsis

Son of Sevenless
Enhancer of split

then there is:
x-ray spectroscopy
electron microscopy
tetrazolium thiazoyl blue (hate this and love it, both with a passion)

 

[gbwillner]

I heard an amazing story (unsure about veracity) about a molecular bio conference. A student had discovered some novel protein which had high levels of activity and folding for a short period of time, after which it underwent a conformational change and became dormant and quite stable. In fact, it was so stable that he named the protein "tenure" all these faculty became offended and there was all this drama... haha.

On a similar note.... did you know the Drosophila "gay" gene called "fruitless" was originally called "fruity"? Oh, what scientists do in the name of comedy...

...The more you know....

 

[a532]

Buckminsterfullerene

 

[M Tobaggen MD]

It seemed to me that many terms in the gut could be prefaced with "Indiana Jones and the...

Crypts of Lieberkuhn

or

Interstitial Cell of Cajal

 

[PfNO22]

epistaxis

and Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

 

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