Mine is ‘pearly penile papules’ as it sounds like a fancy magic spell.
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
Toxic megacolon. Sounds like a metal band.
Oooh, good call! It totally does. I bet a Toxic Megacolon show would have a wild and kickass mosh pit.
Mine is Omentum.
I went to med school for a grand total of one semester before I realized it wasn’t for me. But during that semester I went through Gross Anatomy in which you dissect a cadaver bit by bit over the course of (IIRC) 8 weeks. Anyway in the abdominal cavity lies the greater omentum, a yellow net-like contraption that basically spans the stomach & intestines. It’s super cool looking, probably my favorite structure I encountered in gross anatomy.
My least favorite thing about gross anatomy - other than that one really stinky cadaver - was Netter. Oh my god I felt like that text became an extension of my body, I was never not buried in it, along with so many lists of mnemonics. I still remember the mnemonic Roman Togas Don’t Cover Balls to name the parts of the brachial plexus (Roots, Trunks, Divisions, Cords, and Branches).
Gross
Infarction
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.
My words are taken so imma do a phrase
“FECAL VOMITING”
Like many others, could be a band name. Grindcore, probably. I imagine one of the worst experiences to go though. Vomiting is already terrible… butt now there’s shit.
Worm rot 😍
Priapism. Gotta check for it in trauma patients.
Also a phenomenal instrumental progressive/fusion metal band
https://pryapisme.bandcamp.com/album/diabolicus-felinae-pandemonium
Thank you for this. My kind of band!
“Endocannabinoid system”. It makes us sound like we just evolved a system specifically for processing THC.
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.
Codons. It reminds me of how I was, and still am a biology student by heart. Life happened, and I was forced to pick CS. Other words that I like is bacteriophage, prions and Adenosine Tri-Phosphate.
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis - a rare disease that a friend has.
Idk if it’s medical or more psychological but the term for when your hear a word so many times it loses meaning is one of my favorite phrases in the English language.
Semantic satiation
Echolalia
Or vagina. I really like vagina, and the word vagina.
But echolalia is more fun to say. It’s like tintinnabulation or brobdingnagian in that regard, despite being shorter. But the sound of the word works so neatly with the meaning of the word.
Not just yours https://youtube.com/watch?v=e5aG8FXVtyA
Vagina is nice
Tell us more about vagina
Hypopotomonstrososqepideliophobia. The phobia of long words
Fistula.
Sounds sexual, but very much isn’t.
