English Vocabulary: Medical Words

catatonic

Alice's parents are killed in a fire. Driven catatonic and having attempted suicide (note her bandaged wrists), she is institutionalised in Rutledge Asylum. Years later Alice is called by the White Rabbit to the aid of a radically altered Wonderland, under threat from the Red Queen, the evil despot who has enslaved its people. The Cheshire Cat is a frightening incarnation, and is her constant companion throughout the game, popping up now and again to guide the player or offer advice.

American McGee's Alice

medical oddities

halitosis │ (dragon mouth) that Princeses Diana has halitosis… [Time Mag. 2001-02-05]

flatulence │ fart.

fibrillation │ the twitching of an eye.

tinnitus │ the ringing sound in the ear

expectorate │ hawking phlegm. Some Cold medicine will have the word “expectorant” on its label, meaning it soothes cough or resolve phlegm.

horripilation │ goose bumps

brachydactylia │ Having abnormally short fingers or toes.

microcephalic │ small head. some people are microcephalic, while others are macrocephalic.

medical quacks

homeopathy │ minute dosage as a cure.

chiropractic │ all illness came from the spine

reflexology

osteopathy

-a nares │ nostrils

-a morphology │ In the movie _Silence of the Lamb_ (1991), a moth's morphology is involved.

-a taxonomy

-a apoplectic │ After they've spent half an hour downloading Billy-Ray, hipsters everywhere are going to be apoplectic, and they'll blame the system. [suck.com satire. http://suck.com./daily/2000/03/24/nc_index4.html]

-a photogenic │ often used on a girl

Pschological Oddities

neurasthenic

… In imagining what might have happened, one of America's most provocative young writers, Katie Roiphe, has created a deep, richly textured fictional portrait of Alice and Dodgson: she changing from an unruly child to a bewitching adolescent, and he, a diffident, neurasthenic adult whose increasing obsession with her almost destroys him.

2004. Publisher's description of fiction Still She Haunts Me by Katie Roiphe.

neurasthenic royal is accused of making more crank calls.

Time mag's Winners ＆ Losers 1994-09-12 Page 1. On Diana, Princess of Wales.

neurasthenic = of or relating to or suffering from neurasthenia; nervous breakdown.

narcolepsy

agnosia

alexia

psychotropic

catatonia │ Stunned to the point of catatonia, she wanders alone in a garden.

hypochondria │ convinced of being sick

klismaphilia │ (enema love)

coprolalia │ You need some manners. For a seemingly bright guy, you've got to realize no one is going to take you seriously if you act like the a village idiot with a bad case of copralalia. [email received]

coprophilia │ love of feces — a love bizarre!

homophobe │ aversion of homosexual

xenophobic │ fearing foreign folks

ochlophobia

sigmoid │ The sigmoid colon is a looped section of the bowel just above the rectum. It is shaped somewhat like a question mark, hence its name.

-a dyscalculia │ clinical inability to solve math problems

-a echolalia │ autistic echoing of other people's words

-a glossolalia

-a melancholia

-a memorabilia

-a necrophilia

-n triskelia │ the symbol found in Japanese or Korean cultures, kinda like the taichi yin-yan simpbol but three-fold.

-n swastika │ an ancient symbol used as the emblem of Nazi Germany. 卐, 卍. │ With swastica in my eyes, i rule the world with my vision, with totality and categorical mien, forgiving no one.

science/medical related

etiology

SARS [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome], an atypical pneumonia of unknown etiology, was recognized at the end of February 2003.

The World Health Organization, 2003-03

oncology │ branch on tumors

geriatrics │

eugenics │ controlled breeding. Not to be confused with genetics. Eugenics is passe, stuff of old science fiction. Today we are onto nano-biology, clones, DNA tampering, and designer humans.

orthodontics │ teeth correction, braces

odontology │ dentist shit

dentition │ The type, number, and arrangement of a set of teeth. (AHD)

periodontics │ gum desease stuff

ophthalmology │ eye stuff