Mine is ‘pearly penile papules’ as it sounds like a fancy magic spell.
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Synesthesia. That or prosopagnosia.
Ah, I’ve never encountered anyone else using the latter.
Did you know that Brad Pitt claims it?
edit: So do I, in case anyone thinks I’m being disparaging.
Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (brain freeze)
it’s just too long for something so mundane lol. who are you fooling, palatine??
“Endocannabinoid system”. It makes us sound like we just evolved a system specifically for processing THC.
Sphygmomanometer
I recently figured out you can arrange the letters of this word to make a Letter Boxed puzzle:
P G A S H O E T N Y M R
metacarpals cuz it sounds like some shit a european philosopher from the 19th century wrote a 2000 page thesis on.
Any of the big compound medical words are fun to say and construct IMO. Adrenocorticotropic, deoxyribonucleic, those kinda words. They seem big and scary but they’re quite descriptive and once you know the “formula” behind them it’s not too bad. Maybe not the most fun words but I feel good every time I can use one and deploy it like it’s no big deal (ie my mouth doesn’t fuck it up). It’s like executing a big combo with your mouth.
Sacroiliac and coccyx.
Blindsight and Echopraxia.
Spastic colon
Lol as a medical person myself, reading all the comments her is so hilarious and refreshing. Gives me different perspective.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Supposedly a lung infection caused by inhaling very fine volcano dust. Technically invented by a group of word puzzle fans, but it’s appeared in dictionaries.
This might also be the first time since I learned it (30+ years ago) that it’s been even close to relevant in a conversation.
When I was a kid it was all about antidisestablishmentarianism and that’s also still quite relevant
Which, unfortunately for you, has no relevance in this thread as it isn’t a medical word.
Nice try though. :)
Fistula.
Sounds sexual, but very much isn’t.
Well, not with that attitude!
Agalmatophilia
It’s the paraphilia of being sexually attracted to statues. Like stone marble statues.
Yikes
