my new favorite word . . .

[Arctic Char]

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Confabulation

i can't wait to accuse a friend, lover, family member, etc of confabulating . . .

anyone else have a good one?

 

[braluk]

Discombobulate- what happens when you suck at gross anatomy

 

[albaniandoc]

My favorite one is fcuktard.

 

[lipstikisntfood]

Dilatation, for when plain old dilation will not suffice.

 

[deleted77919]

Mine is radiculopathy. When you say it fast enough it sounds like "ridiculopathy" which is just hilarious. (To me anyway, I've been in med school too long . . . sigh)

 

[Droopy Snoopy]

Umbilicus (pronounced umm-bill-like-kiss). Always thought it was umm-bill-ick-us.

Also malingerer, which effectively captures the way patients hang about the ED like stale farts, hoping for narcs for their "back pain"

 

[glp]

turgid

 

[DrMidlife]

fascinoma: any interesting growth

solomonic: actual use of brain in a decision (thanks to Law2Doc)

I like "grossly unremarkable" as well.

 

[UCLAstudent]

gubernaculum 😉

 

[Anastasis]

buccinator

cracks me up each time my A&P prof says it.

 

[Arctic Char]

fascinoma . . . thats a great one!

our path prof always, without fail, drops several F-bombs every lecture . . . by F-bomb i mean the word: Friable.

 

[Schaden Freud]

gobbledegook

 

[Wizard of Oz]

anastomose or transcarbamylase

 

[slick177]

cremaster

Used this one as our Intramural name with the slogan "We control the balls" the funny thing is that everyone misspronounces it and calls us the Creamsters.

 

[imrep1972]

DEARTH!!!

(you probably have to be there...)

 

[Arctic Char]

Used this one as our Intramural name with the slogan "We control the balls" the funny thing is that everyone misspronounces it and calls us the Creamsters.

haha, thats great. they're almost there . . . just a couple more tissue layers deep

 

[Perrin]

Putamen and frotterism, they just sound dirty.

 

[liverotcod]

crepitus

 

[pagemmapants]

To be a good surgeon, one must practice his prestidigitation!

 

[Gimlet]

Putamen and frotterism, they just sound dirty.

Frotterism is dirty (by some peoples' standards, at least).

crepitus

Along the same lines, fremitus is a good one.

 

[Ashers]

Along the same lines, fremitus is a good one.

Some people were just talking about how fremitus sounded dirty this morning. I still thing "invaginated shunt" sounds bad.

 

[liverotcod]

Some people were just talking about how fremitus sounded dirty this morning. I still thing "invaginated shunt" sounds bad.

Whereas "whispered pectoriloquy" is just darned romantic.

 

[DoctorFunk]

cremaster

Used this one as our Intramural name with the slogan "We control the balls" the funny thing is that everyone misspronounces it and calls us the Creamsters.

I always wanted to put together an intramural team named "Cremasters of the Universe." Maybe you can make my dream a possibility.

 

[DragonWell]

detumescent

 

[Hayden2102]

Our histo lecturer used the word "invagination" far more than necessary.

We always identified something as "biopocket" or "cell spaces" when we couldn't tell what it was on a slide. These became our favourite word.

 

[JohnnieBlue]

Pulvinar

Doesn't it sound like the part of the brain that should just be smashed to pieces?

 

[liverotcod]

Vertical Gluteal Fold

 

[Gimlet]

Rhizopus

 

[mjl1717]

sponge on a stick. (sounds hilarious)

also no borborygami.

 

[albaniandoc]

How about engorgement.

 

[stoic]

Confabulation wins, hands down. i remember learning this word during neuro last year... i thought it was a perfect world then and i still think it is now.

confabulation is a word that sounds like what it means. it would be a perfect made up word, except that it's real.

"the patient is confabulating those memories."
"what's that mean?"
"it means he's making them up as he goes, but believes that they are genuine."

confabulation, friends. it's my 130k word.


though as a phrase, "cremasters of the universe" is pretty good.

 

[Taciturngosamer]

"Baby daddy"

As spoken in voice of my very proper Indian OBGYN attending in an urban hospital. In my defense it was 4 am on my 36 hour call day. Plus, every flipping patient used that phrase to describe the father of their child.

 

[NYCPRDOC]

Heuristics: when saying rule of thumb just isn't enough.

 

[Droopy Snoopy]

analingus

 

[LadyWolverine]

Sar- Sar- Sar- SARTORIUS
(sounds like "notorious")

 

[Dunce]

marsupialization

 

[CCLCMer]

Ha ha, great thread. Mine is "micturition." It means the need to go take a pee. Speaking of which....

 

[DocVirk]

While studying for my most recent test, I came across two fantastic ones

Psammoma body

Mycophenolate Mofetile

Granted, the second one is a drug, but it just rolls off the tongue so nicely😉

 

[Gut Shot]

analingus

Wow, made it to post #34 before someone brought up direct oral-anal contact.

 

[DrKitty]

digiti minimi and digitorum profundus

 

[CityDweller]

bulbospongiosus

 

[densmore22]

ataxia telangiectasia

 

[UCLAstudent]

Pathognomonic (which, for the longest time, I thought was spelled "pathomnemonic")

 

[Trail Boss]

"gubernaculum". Makes me laught just saying it. three weeks out of anatomy block and I don't have the faintest idea what it is, but its still funny.

vaginae, the pl. of vagina. Not really a funny word, but just try and use it in a sentence.

 

[Critical Mass]

amygdalofugal

 

[indo]

Putamen and frotterism, they just sound dirty.

frotteurism is dirty. The putament is dirty too because it allows you to commit frotteurism.

 

[Jack Daniel]

Fard.

It means to put on make-up.

I see a lot of women farding in the car as I drive to school.

 

[chocolate-e]

membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis

Same number of syllables as supercalafragalisticexpialidocious, but so much nerdier.

 

[tulane06]

Priapism

 

[Jasoos]

Pallidothalamic

makes you think it was phallicaly oriented