Sialolithiasis.
A surgeon reminded me of this word yesterday.
"Isn't it almost like poetry?" He said. "Sigh-yallow-lith-eye-a-sis."
It does fall trippingly from the tongue. It means stone formation in the gland that produces spit.
Other favorites:
electroencephalogram
fulguration
chordae tendinae
echocardiography
adenopathy
fluoroscopy
gammaglobulin
but none of these has the same flow as
sialolithiasis.
You know you're an ex-English major when after being up for almost 36 hours straight, with maybe a half-hour snooze between obstetric calls, the one salient memory you have of your work day is a surgeon admiring the word sialolithiasis with you.
7 comments:
I love "gubernaculum". :)
Zeugma!
Metathesis!
Inspissated.
Recitative.
Anastamosis.
Giardia.
I love words!
Pancreaticoduodenectomy
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i love anesthesia...resuscitation...serendipity.
In medical school, my roommates and I would try to fit parts of the anatomy to cars - doesn't "tensor veli palatini" sound like an Italian car? Sorry if misspelled, that is not part of my day to day vocabulary these days... :-)
My English professor thought 'syphilis' to be the most beautiful word in the English language.
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